Dog Heartworm Treatment

Question by Sherice S: can humans catch tapeworm, heartworm, any type of worm that dog may have, if so how wud u kno if u caught it?
more so, can humans catch tape worm or coccadia from a dog. how would the human be infected if they can.

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Answer by GeminiRebelLady
In a word… the answer is yes, they can catch zoonotic diseases from animals.

Some canine tapeworms are also zoonotic. The most common dog tapeworm is the flea tapeworm. This is not readily transmitted to humans, as swallowing an infected flea is required to become infected. However, when it does occur, infection is more common in children. The symptoms are similar to those in dogs; segments of tapeworms (resembling grains of rice) being passed in the feces and sticking to the anal area.

http://www.petshed.com/petcyclopedia/human-risk-from-worms-in-dogs.html

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Question by Che_G.: What are the signs of dog depression? Can heart-worm travel into becoming brainworm?
My dog Morph is/was the worlds smartest dog and a most courageous 4 leg animal. He’s mixed pure bred golden retriever and shepard mutt. Understands 3 languages, looks both ways before crossing highway traffic. He defended me by attacking 2 fully grown rottweillers when he was about a year old. He’s nearly 10 now but acting so weird.
He has mild heartworm treated for past 2 years, all of his shots. He has always stalked and eats wild muskrats, beaver and the odd rabbit staying mostly outdoors. Now he’s crazy won’t eat, can’t decide what he wants to do. If there were dog taverns he’d be there sucking beer all winter.

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Answer by Wild Honey
i think your dog may be suffering from demensia as he is very old in dog years.
I would recommend you keep him comfortable and happy as he lives out his life.

What do you think? Answer below!

My wife and I just adopted a 1 1/2 year old Chow/Corgi/Retriever mix. Once we did his check up 48 hours later our vet found that he had heart-worm. So they put him on 2 medications to pep him for his Heart-Worm shots. He has been on Doxycycline and Prednisone for 16 days and I HATE IT! Everything was going fine, nothing wrong, then Sunday he started to form this Cough/Hack up some mucus thing… so we called the Vet who informed us that this IS happening because of the heartworm and should after 48 hours be relieved. Well, the cough/hack has supressed, he still does it in the mornings but it has gotten better. On Monday he had some fairly blood shot eyes, which has also gotten a little better (still a little blood shot), and he has mucus everywhere. always has a running nose and eyes AND for the first time EVER! he didn’t eat all of his dog food. I found out why because just 5 minutes ago he threw up a SOFTBALL size pile of vomit!

After that I HAD ENOUGH! I am looking for someone who has had a dog go through Heart worm treatment before OR another Vet’s opinon. This is scaring me and I do not like it at all! IS MY DOG GOING TO BE OK?!
Ok… first off all these ignorant people posting non-sense on my question need to stop trolling these forums. I have kept with the DR.’s orders to the T! and this is exactly what happened. I am looking for a VET’s repsonse or someone who has experience with a dog who has had Heart-Worm.
Everyone telling me to “return” the dog… You are what is wrong with this world, PEOPLE WHO CAN’T TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANYTHING have made this world into the trash it is. I need some CONSTRUCTIVE answers! I am taking the dog to the Vet tonight, I was looking for a little assistance.

more so, can humans catch tape worm or coccadia from a dog. how would the human be infected if they can.

My dog Morph is/was the worlds smartest dog and a most courageous 4 leg animal. He’s mixed pure bred golden retriever and shepard mutt. Understands 3 languages, looks both ways before crossing highway traffic. He defended me by attacking 2 fully grown rottweillers when he was about a year old. He’s nearly 10 now but acting so weird.
He has mild heartworm treated for past 2 years, all of his shots. He has always stalked and eats wild muskrats, beaver and the odd rabbit staying mostly outdoors. Now he’s crazy won’t eat, can’t decide what he wants to do. If there were dog taverns he’d be there sucking beer all winter.