Dandenong Veterinary Hospital an Australian company offers users with a range of veterinary products and services. They also provide a lot of preventive health care solutions for pets and animals.
Heartworm Disease is a popular preventive care solution from Dandenong Veterinary Hospital. Herein, they address problems of heartworm, a common problem in dogs. Heartworms are parasites that thrive in the heart of pulmonary arteries of dogs.
They can also easily spread from one dog to another by mosquitoes. An adult heartworm has a long life of as much as five years. These heartworms measure 15 cm to 30 cm. Heartworms take about six months to develop from the time that the dog is bitten by an infected mosquito. After six months, the heartworm turns into an adult worm.
Veterinarians at Dandenong Veterinary Hospital judge the possibility of heartworms in a dog based on clinical signs or a diagnosis that can be confirmed with a blood test. Sometimes, veterinarians also have to undertake X-rays or ECGs to understand the diagnosis and to understand the intensity of damage done to the heart. Treatment of heartworm in dogs is a difficult process. It can also be potentially fatal as they often need to use arsenic compounds to kill adult worms. Arsenic compounds can damage the liver and kidney of the dog. Once the worm dies, these compounds will easily pass down the blood stream to enter the lungs. That makes preventive therapy of heartworm disease in dogs important.