Has anyone tried Effipro Spot on Flea Treatment? - Cheaper version of Frontline?

gazr_2

I called my vet, and the only difference is if you use the frontline combo which helps reduce fleaes in the home. The normal one dosn't. So you'll have to spray house and beddings once or twice a year, which is what I do. Hope this helps.

janeys

This is my second year using effipro, and my dogs have been fine, no fleas or ticks. The vet is happy with us using effipro and to be extra money saving I buy the effipro for large dogs and use a syringe to dose my 2 dogs, perfectly ok as long as you adjust the dosage according to the guidelines, (my vet recomended we do this).

dandelionclock30

I used Effipro last year and we then got a severe flea infestation in the house which was a devil to get rid of!. Never again, I use Stronghold on the cats now.

timmmers

Given the expense and irritation of getting rid of fleas, it's maybe worth grabbing a carpet/uphostery cleaner...like a Vax for example. Fleas can be hoovered out of corners and furniture but you won't get 'em all and their eggs and you've probably seen the little blighters hop out as you empty the hoover. A little insecticide in a cleaner like a Vax will not only wash the fleas out of carpets and soft furnishings and drown them but also poison any left behind. You can pick one up cheap enough and they are handy for other things anyway.

If you don't get rid of the stuff living in the carpets and environment nothing will keep your animals free of parasites..they'll just hop back on.

Once i had a cat that enjoyed being hoovered, the dog did so she joined in. That helped a lot to keep them free of fleas.

I dampen the fur round my cats neck with olive oil too, makes it much easier to apply ALL the spot-on medication to a bare patch of skin and not waste it in their fur. These cats that sit while the owner puts spot-on on the nape of their necks ...I wish I had one, mine fight and claw and bite and wriggle and run away the second they see me anywhere near something that looks like flea treatment. They even got to vanishing when I went near the drawer I kept it in

dca860

stirlo wrote: »

hi - effipro isn't a 'generic' version of frontline - its a similar but rival product made by another drugs company (virbac) that happens to be cheaper than frontline

Of course it is. Nurofen is a brand name of Ibuprofen just as Frontline is a brand name using the same active ingredient as effipro. Stop splitting hairs

ElusiveLucy

I won't be using Effipro again. After using Frontline effectively for years I ran out and I had a free sample of Effipro from VetUK so I tried it on one of my cats - not only did it leave a white mark on her fur, a week or so late she started losing fur on her back, it was coming out in clumps.

I could be wrong, but the only thing that had changed in her environment was that I had used Effipro on her. I took her to the vet, he checked for mites, fleas etc and I used Advocate on her after a couple of weeks and now her fur has just started to grow back.

iris7435

My new vet has given me effipro for my 8mth old poodle and its left a horrible white stain on her fur! I wouldn't recommend it at all. I'd rather pay the extra for frontline or stronghold which I've always used on my other dogs and they worked fantastic.
really miffed off as just spent £30 getting her groomed ready for a dog show and now she looks stupid!

Mogwy

I used this on both of my cats. One had 2 bald patches for a few weeks and the other lost some fur and had a few blisters. I'd stick to front line. That's stopped working for my cats so I now use strong hold from the vets. Not the cheapest but it works and I no what I'm getting.

Mogwy

Same happend to both my cats. Even gave one blisters. I thought maybe I had fake stuff off Internet untill I read this

burnlyf

I'd recommend Advantage, I switched to it a few years ago when Frontline stopped being effective. No fleas on any of my cats since I switched (: