Infected tick bite....

Triker

Please, please, please be very, very careful re ticks, and removing them and making sure you are not bitten, as someone who is still trying to recover from Lyme Disease (carried by ticks and other insects) I cannot urge you enough to be extra, extra careful. Animals can suffer the same horrendous effects too.

gettingready

Caroline_a wrote: »

I think I posted this on another thread after speaking to vet that the Frontline you buy in shops and online isnt as strong as the ones that vets sell - it's to do with the prescription dose I guess, but it might be false economy to be getting it from cheaper places at the moment. Frontline from vet will kill ticks on a dog/cat

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Sometimes cheapest isn't always the best unfortunately.

Normal Frontline is exactly the same - does nto matter if you buy it from the vets or from online pharmacy.

There is frontline Plus which is available on prescription only - that one is different.

But normal, regular frontline is the same regardless where you buy it from - just compare the boxes and you will find it is identical.

Caroline_a

Ah that will be it then - our vet only sells Frontline plus!

gettingready

Yup, Frontline Plus you can only get with prescription....

Caroline_a

Triker wrote: »

Please, please, please be very, very careful re ticks, and removing them and making sure you are not bitten, as someone who is still trying to recover from Lyme Disease (carried by ticks and other insects) I cannot urge you enough to be extra, extra careful. Animals can suffer the same horrendous effects too.

Really good advice. Lyme Disease is dreadful.. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002296/

rising_from_the_ashes

tankgirl1 wrote: »

Soaking them in anything incl alcohol, or suffocating them with vaseline etc makes them panic, and therefore makes them likely to regurgitate their innards into the pet - not good!

OMG - it was our VET that told us to do this!:eek:

UncleZen

We remove ticks like this: Use liquid flea treatment (frontline I think) and douse the tick. Leave for 30mins or so. Return with a tick removal tool and remove the tick that will come out easily. Dispose of thoroughly. Simples. Works every time.

gettingready

Just got back from the vet - £110 lighter in my pocket...

There was no head left so I did remove the damn thing properly - still was infected so antibiotics for 7 days (£50.21), eye drops (she got eye infection £19.15) and of course consultation fee £39.78.

Hope this helps Zara.. in the meantime - going to sit outside tube station with a hat.......I am broke.

EDIT - Never ever "soak" a tick with anything at all, ever, THAT is causing even more problems...

tankgirl1

Hey - glad you got the whole thing out, or it could have been even more expensive :eek:

Thats a pricey consult fee, but I see you are in London.

tankgirl1

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

OMG - it was our VET that told us to do this!:eek:

Hiya

As a VN, I was initially taught when I started in practice that soaking them with alcohol was good. This was in the late 90's. Since then I have learned that it is a bad bad idea, but there are probally still vets & vn's out there who were taught as I initially was, and have never heard any different.

I'm not defending your vet, but it can be incredibally difficult to keep up to date with everything - the veterinary world has evolved an awful lot over the last decade!