Natural Cures for Canine Heart Worms

Natural cures for canine heart worm #2 - Knowing your enemy.

As stated in my first post, this post will discuss more about many things associated with the heartworm. By knowing their lifecycle, incubation period, symptoms, and other things, hopefully you will have a full understanding about them. Furthermore, by knowing these things you can also take steps to prevent/treat them.

Okay, first things first. The physiology of the worm. Heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) resides normally in the heart, especially the right chamber. Not only that, they also infest the the main artery leaving the right chamber of the heart going into the lungs and the main vein entering the right chamber which brings blood from all the body. They are big. Normally about 5 inches long, but there are some that reach 12 inches! Creepy.

So how does a dog get infected by them? Well, their lifecycle goes about something like this. Carrier mosquitoes bites a healthy dog > Heartworm larvae injected into dog’s blood stream > The larvae makes it’s way to the heart > They grow into adult heartworms > Female heartworms lays live young larvae which circulates in the blood > When a mosquito bites the dog, it picked up the larvae > Mosquito become carrier mosquito > Rinse and repeat.

It can took up to 6 months for the larvae to grow into the adult heartworm since the point of being bitten by the mosquito. This is the first key of treatment. If we can clean up all the little larvae in the bloodstream, they can be prevented to grow into their adult version, hence saving your pet from unnecessary pain.

Considering their lifecycle, symptoms that can be spotted visually is symptoms caused by the already mature heartworm in the heart. They block bloodflow. There are also cases that stray larvae lost their way and lodge themselves to the liver, or other areas. If they grow there, they also block bloodflow, hence causing the organ to lose function gradually.

Unfortunately, our pet cannot complain much. It can took years for symptoms to manifest themselves. The most common symptoms begins with mild cough, fatigue, severe coughing and breathing difficulties. This alone can cause death. Symptoms varies depending on the heartworm count inside your pet. For cases where the liver is compromised, other symptoms that you should be wary of is jaundice, loss of appetite and sudden faints.

So how do you deal with it? Since it’s easily prevented than treated, there are two ways you can do to prevent them. First, you can tackle the mosquitoes. Second, you can prevent the larvae to grow into adulthood by cleansing the bloodstream. How can you do that? One of the leading natural cures that you can use is Parasite Dr. One of their function is cleaning the blood, among other function. So they can be taken as a supplement to prevent the disease also to treat it. You can click the link to read more about their uses, or you can skim my first post.

We owe it to our pet to give them the love that they need. This is one thing that you and I can do.

Do you have a pet dog? Dogs are the most loyal pet that a human can ask. They love us without condition and doesn’t expect something in return. But there’s a terrible disease that haunts them.

Heartworm are reknowned as one of the most prominent and global disease that affects dogs. Not only dogs, they also affect cats, wolves, coyotes, foxes, and some other thirty species of animals. The parasite is Dirofilaria immitis, first found about a century ago. You should know that this parasite is carried by mosquitoes, so areas with large mosquitoe populations have a higher rate of infestation.

How bad is a heartworm infection? It’s a terrible diesase for pets. Imagine your pet’s heart filled with big, long worms. Not just 5 or 10, up to 250 worms! Just the thought of it make me wince in pain. No pet should ever go through that. The percentage of infection is 45% with dogs within 150 miles of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from the Gulf of Mexico to New Jersey and along the Mississippi River and around it. Not only that, Heartworm infestation is dangerous; untreated dogs die and treated dogs go through weeks of discomfort while the worms are killed and expelled from their bodies.

Are there natural cures for canine heart worms infestation? Yes, there’s hope. Most dog can be treated to heal completely. Many have found that Parasite Dr help their dog from this disease. Cosider the positive benefits:

• Promote digestive health and balance, calm and soothe the digestive system
• Cleanse and detox the digestive system and improve digestive functioning
• Cleanse the blood (cleans the blood from heartworm larvae tissue)
• Support correct balance of intestinal flora
• Act as a tonic for the entire digestive system
• Support the immune system

So why wait? Why take risks for your pet? Act now and give your pet the treatment that it deserves. Natural cures for canine heart worms is available!

Next post we will discuss more about the symptoms and the incubation phase of the parasite.