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Maintaining your dog's health is a task in itself. There are so many parasites such as heartworms, hookworms, roundworms etc that keep on infesting your dog causing health trouble. But, you can keep all these parasites at bay by using Heartgard Plus. This is a medication that is used to prevent heartworms and control roundworms and hookworms. Heartgard Plus is a prescription medication and should be used with the consultation of a doctor only.

Functioning
This medication contains various ingredients that help fight heart worms. Amidst various other ingredients, Heartgard Plus uses ivermectin and pyrantel pamoate as active ingredients. Ivermectin is a broad spectrum anti parasitic medication that prevents heartworms. On the other hand, pyrantel pamoate works as an anthelminthic and prevents roundworms and hookworms.

Benefits
Using Heartgard Plus for your dog has several benefits. Perhaps the most important benefit of using this medicine is the fact that it works. Heartgard plus is highly effective and it keeps heartworms, roundworms and hookworms at bay. Another benefit of using this medicine is that it is considered as the tastiest chewable tablet ever. So, you will not have a tough time feeding this to your dog.

Further on, this medicine is easy to use. You just need to feed this to your dog once in a month. Also, there are no unnecessary precautions or contraindications of using the medicine. To add on, Heartgard Plus is safe and does not cause side effects.

Safety status
The possibility of side effects with Heartgard plus is rare. However, an overdose of the medication may lead to certain side effects. Diarrhea, nausea, dilated pupils, tremors, weight loss etc are some of the side effects that your dog may experience as a result of overdose.

Usage
You can use this medicine for dogs that are at least six weeks of age and above. Heartgard plus are chewable tablets that need to be used on a monthly basis. So make sure that you give your pet these tablets on the same day of every month.

Since this medication is available in a chewable tablet form, you need to take great care to ensure that your canine does not swallow this medicine. You could break the tablet into piece or mix it with food to ensure that your dog does not swallow this medicine.

Heartgard Plus is a prescription medication so make sure that you do not use the medicine without prior consultation of a veterinarian. The recommended dosage of this medicine varies with the dog weight.

There is no reason why you should let your pet suffer when you have effective preventive medications such as Heartgard Plus at your aid.