Are there any flea and tick medications that are not topical, like a pill, perhaps?

Question

What is the best flea and tick medication?

Answer 1

Frontline, stronghold and advantix ampoules are not topical. You put them on the back of the animals neck and it is absorbed by the entire skin, it doesn't act only on the spot you put it on. Careful, they are not drinkable, they are applied on the animals back! The same applies for collars.

Answer 2

Yes there is a pill. I believe the name is Program. I would check with your vet and get it started right now before the "flea" season starts. Make sure your dog is a candidate for the medicine. It takes a while to work. Adult fleas bite the dog and then the fleas die. (Seriously, I don't know exactly how it works, but this is it in a nutshell) It prevents the fleas from laying eggs on the dog and it interrupts their life cycle that way. New fleas can't hatch and the adult fleas die from whatever the dog passes on to them. It is a once a month pill. If your dog runs loose, this pill might not be as effective as you will need it to be because they will pick up new adult fleas every day as they run loose. But if your dog is fenced and your yard is periodically treated, you will be amazed. Within a short period, there will be no fleas. Both you and your dog will be so happy!! :-)

Answer 3

Hi Hershey!
Advantage. Active ingredient is imidacloprid. This is a flea poison, from Bayer. It is in a liquid form and applied to the skin, at the back of the dog, and works for about a month. This works by upsetting the nervous system of fleas when they come in contact with the liquid. This product is fast acting and is not absorbed into the internal organs and bloodstream of the dog.

Studies indicate that this product is highly toxic to fleas and other insects as well. A dog will be free from fleas in just a couple of days.

Ingredients are: imidacloprid -- a chloronicotinyl nitroguanidine integrated from the nitromethylene class of a compound. This joins the nicotinyl receptor sites of insects, thus upsetting normal nerve transmission which causes death.

Also, Frontline, Knockout, Biospot, Proban (cythioate) and Prospot (Fenthion), please look article: http://www.askedweb.com/askedweb/Natural_Flea_Control/

A veterinarian can recommend several different products and can help design a complete treatment program. The house and outdoor environment either can be treated by the owner or by a professional exterminator.

All flea control products work at one or more stages of the flea's life cycle. Attacking the fleas at different stages will result in faster eradication. The only stage that is resistant to treatment products is the pupa stage. The pupa is wrapped in a cocoon that renders it virtually indestructible. Eventually, though fleas at this stage will be eradicated when they emerge as an adult flea.

Fleas can hide in many places indoors, so piles of old newspapers and magazines should be disposed, and non-carpeted surfaces and crevices should be mopped and disinfected. Vacuum cleaner bags should be changed and discarded after each use, since the eggs can survive within the bag and be deposited back into the carpet when the vacuum cleaner is used next. Please look article: http://www.askedweb.com/askedweb/Fleas_And_Flea_Control/
Jason Homan

Answer 4

I don't know if they have flea & tick medicine in pill form but I do know that I had a dog that was allergic to fleas so we took here to the vet and they gave her some pills and some topical you'll get the best medicine from your vet it might cost a bit more then the stuff you buy in the store but if you want to get rid of the fleas and ticks i would take your pet to the vet and let them give you some flea and tick medicine

Answer 5

I give my dog Sentinel flavor tabs once a month. It prevents heartworm disease and flea populations in dogs and puppies. It has no effect on adult fleas but controls flea populations by breaking the flea life cycle at the egg stage. They do have a tablet called Capstar that can be used with Sentinel that would kill adult fleas if your dog was infested.
Hope this helps.

P.S. The package does not mention protection from ticks.

Answer 6

Yes.

I would strongly suggest talking with your vet.
You could phone them and get some ideas of how to treat fleas and ticks.

But they would need to see the dog and check him /her over before giving you medications.

I know last spring we had an outbreak of fleas in the area I lived in, we needed help getting it under control.

The vet put my boy on a flea pill that killed every live flea within 24 hrs. Then a follow up pill that killed the newly hatched eggs some 48 hrs later.

This plus baths helped to get rid of them.
However I don't know what they were called.

Good luck.

Answer 7

Yes darlin - and they can get expensive.

Sentinel can be prescribed by your Vet and it covers both flea infestations and heartworm. I don't remember if it repells ticks as well.

Talk to your Vet. When it comes to pills - you're into prescription medication territory.

Good luck, hon!
Peace. --De

Answer 8

capstar & program are both pill type flea products. The heartworm Sentinal contins both the intercepter heartworm and program.
I don't think any of them help with ticks....

Answer 9

I don't think there's anything like a pill, but the collar works well.
and if there's a pill let me know

Answer 10

yes there is. its called capstar and you'll have to get it from a vet.