frontline-does anyone know?

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I regularly deflea my dog and check her most days for fleas. She was frontlined on sat just gone. I checked her yesterday and she had none.

Unfortunately, I took her when I went to visit someone today that had a serious flea problem in their house! There were fleas everywhere. Since I have been home I have got 13 of them off her! There are more I have seen that I couldn't get.
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Will I need to deflea her again or should they jump off her because she was done so recently? They don't appear to want to go anywhere!
 
Crikey - poor you.

I would suggest giving your dog a wash with some medicated shampoo. That should kill the little blighters off pretty quickly, and if he has been frontlined recently there is no point in doing it again as the chemical is still in his system.

|Good luck.

Fiona
 
Hi, If you bath your dog you will strip the natural oils in the coat, which the Frontline will "bond" to. If you read the leaflet it will say do not bath for 5 days before or after treatment. Any fleas hitching a lift will get zapped eventually, but why not comb them out in the meantime. You could use a household treatment on the bedding/carpets to catch any little critters that have jumped ship! Never mix insecticides, a insecticidal flea bath on top of a topical treatment is not to be recommended. Hope that helps. Dx
 
Surely frontline goes through the skin into the bloodstream rather than sitting on the surface of the hair (esp when using the spot on rather than the spray).

I would rather bath, and re-apply the frontline afterwards if this was the case.

I really don't like the idea of fleas leaping off dog in the house and having to treat carpets etc. Yuck.

Sorry if my advice wasn't correct, but thats what I would do.

Fiona
 
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Crikey -

if he has been frontlined recently there is no point in doing it again as the chemical is still in his system.



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Hi Fiona - your advice wasn't wrong, sorry if I made it sound like that!!! My understanding is that Frontline has a systemic and topical method of killing the little blitters so yes some does get absorbed. Frontline Combo is even better, it is the belt and braces of flea treatment as helps prevent enviromental infestation...Bleugh!!!
 
If you're talking about the Frontline that is put on to deter both fleas and ticks, as I recall it says on the Frontline info, that you shouldn't bath with shampoo for 5 days or so after having put on Frontline. If you do bath, you might wash away some of the Frontline and you shouldn't put on any new until the usual interval of weeks have gone by.

If it was my dog, I would probably use my flea-comb, if possible let my dog sleep in the dog-cage over night and see if they're just as happy in her coat tomorrow afternoon. But then I'm more or less just as unhappy with having to put an insect-pesticide on my dogs skin as I'm unhappy with needing to check them for ticks several times a day.

On other hand I would also want the fleas all gone at once...


Sympathy and good luck.
 
Shampoos or bathing rarely kill fleas, they still jump on for a feed, but they will die if the dog is flead, I always treat my home anyway atleast every 6 months.
 
Please read the instructions on the frontline carefully as it can be harmful in overdose and the recommended re treatment period is a month.
 
Don't re flea treat! if you have applied it for this 3 months that is FINE! It will kill the blighters eventually, focus on treating your house too, that way there is no escape! (MWAHAHAHA!)

You can overdose on frontline!!! Whether you use different applications or anything so please try not too!

Treat your house then use something like a nit comb or something to scrape as many of the little darlings out as possible!!!

Also frontline stays in the oils on the skin which is how it spreads across their surface, it doesn't soak into the blood stream straight away (Im not sure ifi t does at all!) but the reason you don't bathe for 5 days before or after is due to it removing these oils so the frontline cannot spread on the animal so is ineffective!

Hope this helps! Sorry you have a flea'y dog at the moment!
 
Thank you all for your advice. I have been using the flea comb.

I just dread getting an infestetaion in the house. Especially when I am so careful with keeping the fleas at bay in the first place!

I will get the dyson out and hoover everywhere, wash her bedding etc and hopefully this will keep it under control!
 
get frontline spray or somethin similar as well and do your carpets and sofas as the eggs and larvae of fleas burrow to the bottom of your carpet to get as far away from the light as possible, which, unfortuantly, the dyson wont get!!!

you just have to keep the dog out of that room until it has settled intot he carpet etc (guidance on the container!)
 
Spray the house so they dont leave any "presents" for later on soft furniture/carpets and either get any you see with you nails or an electric flee comb(fab on short haired dogs and cats!).
I use RIP(£8 I think from vets) for house-bloody good stuff!
Cat got out once and brought a load of fleas back with him
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and that got rid of them in no time
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