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Cat Health & Behaviour => Health & Behaviour General => Topic started by: No Name on October 15, 2007, 00:03:01 AM

Title: fleas AND worms
Post by: No Name on October 15, 2007, 00:03:01 AM

advice please, my cats have the F word, only discovered tonight aprox 20 mins ago.

Luckily I had some Stronghold flea stuff from the vets so each of them have been treated ASAP, however, I seem to remember being told that I must worm them aswell.

my question is do I have to wait a few days or can I apply the wormer immediately? I am worried that I will over load their systems especially as one is only a 10 week old baby and/or will make them ill.

please can you advise me

Title: Re: fleas AND worms
Post by: Gill (sneakiefeline) on October 15, 2007, 01:13:16 AM

If the wormer is a tablet and they have not had one recently yes they can have it but if its a spot on , noooooo you cant use it at the same time as a spot on flea treatment.

I take it its a wormer from a vet?

I would wait until toomorrow and then ask the vet for the wormer.

Title: Re: fleas AND worms
Post by: Bazsmum on October 15, 2007, 03:11:12 AM

I usually wait till 2 days after flea treatment....not sure but do you have to wait a month between drontal treatments also (cant remember  :shy:)

Title: Re: fleas AND worms
Post by: Desley (booktigger) on October 15, 2007, 07:50:25 AM

I would have a chat with your vet, as STronghold covers one of the kind of worms - can it be used on such young kittens?

Title: Re: fleas AND worms
Post by: Teresa Pawcats on October 15, 2007, 09:11:35 AM

Stronghold covers roundworm.It comes in 2 sizes so I hope you have only given kitten the kitten size one, or one third of an adult one. I would leave worm treatment for a week at least.

Title: Re: fleas AND worms
Post by: Millys Mum on October 15, 2007, 17:42:53 PM

Ickle it would be better to use the kitten stronghold next time as at ten weeks she wont be much over a kilo. Kitten is for cats upto 2.5kg i think. :-:

Title: Re: fleas AND worms
Post by: berties mum on October 23, 2007, 20:16:42 PM

I actually think my vet told me you should wait three months between Drontal treatments - definitely worth checking ...

Title: Re: fleas AND worms
Post by: Ela on October 23, 2007, 21:30:35 PM

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I actually think my vet told me you should wait three months between Drontal treatments

The monthly advice has been out for a while now and was discussed on here a few weeks ago. I asked my vet and although they don't now use  Drontal confirmed that the new thought was monthly.