how many mgs of garlic capsules can you give a dog for fleas please help.?

Question

i am giving mydogs four mgs a day but the fleas are still there

Answer 1

That may be because herbal remedies do not work on fleas, they might be vampire like in nature but all its going to do is give them garlic breath! Get down your vet for some good flea treatment and they will be gone before you know it I promise you. You might want to treat the carpets and dog bedding as well as this is the unseen problem. Good Luck

Answer 2

garlic will not get rid of your flees! it only helps to prevent them!!! you shud go to your vet and get some frontline to get rid of the fleas before you get an infestation in your house. garlic is good for the diet and gives your dog a beautiful coat, fleas do not like the taste of garlic in the blood but this will not get rid of them, if it did everyone would use it and there would be no such thing as flea shampoo/tablets/spot ons etc. good luck! xxx

Answer 3

Advantage kills the fleas and in teh end will be cheaper than garlic. Garlic is good to cook with, fun to grow but doesn't kill fleas. It contains thiosulphate that can cause illness in too large of quanities. Pull out your wallet and buy Advantage.

Answer 4

other uses, see Flea (disambiguation).
?Fleas


SEM of a flea
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Subclass: Pterygota

Infraclass: Neoptera

Superorder: Endopterygota

Order: Siphonaptera


Families
Tungidae – sticktight and chigoe fleas (chiggers)
Pulicidae – common fleas
Coptopsyllidae
Vermipsyllidae – carnivore fleas
Rhopalopsyllidae – marsupial fleas
Hypsophthalmidae
Stephanocircidae
Pygiopsyllidae
Hystrichopsyllidae – rat and mouse fleas
Leptopsyllidae – mouse and rat fleas
Ischnopsyllidae – bat fleas
Ceratophyllidae:-fleas mainly associated with rodents Amphipsyllidae
Malacopsyllidae
Dolichopsyllidae – rodent fleas
Ctenopsyllidae

Flea is the common name for any of the small wingless insects of the order Siphonaptera (some authorities use the name Aphaniptera because it is older, but names above family rank do not follow the rules of priority, so most taxonomists use the more familiar name). Fleas are external parasites, living by hematophagy off the blood of mammals and birds, and genetic and morphological evidence indicates that they are descendants of the Scorpionfly family Boreidae, which are also flightless; accordingly it is possible that they will eventually be reclassified as a suborder within the Mecoptera. In the past, however, it was most commonly supposed that fleas had evolved from the flies (Diptera), based on similarities of the larvae.

Note: There is also a genus of foraminiferan Protozoa named Siphonaptera

Some well known flea species include:

Cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis),
Dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis),
Human flea (Pulex irritans),
Northern rat flea (Nosopsyllus fasciatus),
Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis).

Flea bites on the back of a humanIn most cases, fleas are just a nuisance to their hosts, but some people and some animals suffer allergic reactions to flea saliva resulting in rashes. Flea bites generally result in the formation of a slightly-raised swollen itching spot with a single puncture point at the center. The bites often appear in clusters or lines, and can remain itchy and inflamed for up to several weeks afterwards. Fleas can also lead to hair loss as a result of frequent scratching and biting by the animal, and can cause anemia in extreme cases.

However, fleas can also act as a vector for disease. One possible example of this was the bubonic plague, which may have been transmitted between rodents and humans. Murine typhus (endemic typhus) fever, and in some cases tapeworms, Hymenolepis, can also be transmitted by fleas.

Flea bites can be treated with Calamine lotion or 0.5-1% conc. hydrocortisone cream. Lufenuron is a veterinary medicine that attacks the larval flea's ability to produce chitin. See also Frontline (medicine).


Hooke's drawing of a flea in Micrographia
Flea "dirt," in the fur of a cat, is actually excess blood (from host) consumed by the adult flea, passed as feces.Flea medicines need to be used with care. Phenothrin (85.7%) in combination with Methopren was a popular topical flea/tick therapy for felines. Phenothrin kills adult fleas and ticks. Methoprene is an insect growth regulator that interrupts the insect's life cycle by killing the eggs. However, the US EPA has made at least one manufacturer of these products (Hartz Mountain Corp., Seacaucus, New Jersey, USA), withdraw some products and include strong cautionary statements on others, warning of adverse reactions (http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/flea-tick-drops.htm).


[edit] References
Grimaldi, D. and Engel, M.S. (2005). Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82149-5.

[edit] External links
Advice about fleas from the Berkeley Parents Network
Links to flea bite pictures (Hardin MD/Univ of Iowa)
Good Neighbors An essay on the natural history of the flea
Ohio State University Fact Sheet Life cycle and control methods for fleas
Breaking the Flea Cycle
Sand Flea Bite Picture
Flea As Weapon

Answer 5

I'm not entirely convinced that garlic will cause fleas to leave your dogs alone. And it's coming out that garlic is as harmful to dogs as onions.

Answer 6

here is a site for other thing you can try and do to help get rig of fleas.. just giving pills won't help.. they are in your house and yard i am guessing too.. have to kill them as well..

also on the box or bottle there should be a gide on how much to give.. usually done by weight..

Answer 7

i exploit garlic powder, only a touch some cases a week (about a million/3 tsp). you may also provide garlic pills. clean garlic can pose a probability of digestive disillusioned, so I favor the dehydrated powder or pill kind.

Answer 8

dawn dish soap for dog w/ condtioner afterwords and anything sevins dust(wally world garden dept.) on carpet and yard do the sevins dust and/or spray before washin puppy. sevins and dawn dish detergent both kill bugs instantly. and the sevins is safe for dogs. dawn will dry the skin hence the conditioner.

Answer 9

I gave mine 120 mgs but it didnt work. I switched to "brewers Yeast"

Answer 10

tea tree oil is a much better solution and just rub into dog all over it will also ease the pain where dog has chewed herself