Message #241886

[treeingratterrier]

Is the rub the long adult heartworms dont show up in the tests because they are so big and likely clogging a heart or artery eating blood while those microfilla are floating around in the blood and get sucked up in the blood draw and them show up on the slide when they look at it and stain it with something???  I wonder if Levasole is still around???  Its sheep wormer with cynidie in it and we used it in the 60-70's to kill heartworm, we did not know what it did but i bet it really did kill adutls since it was basially the same thing as the vet was giving iv but in such massive doses that when it killed all of the adult heartworms in a heavyly invested dog it killed it due to too much dead worm load clogging up kidneys, heart valves other organs where they lodged when they died and the dog could not handle it???  2 weeks of 1 levalsoe pill a day cured many a dog for me plus hand feeding it and cooking it special hot food to help it not go into shock like thye always seem to do at the vets office??