www.a-animal.com Fort Worth Veterinarian, Dr. Spikes, shows how heartworms can destroy your dog’s heart.
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Question by alicia: how serious are heartworms in dogs?
i just found out today that my dog has heartworms. i talked to the vet about what i do next,with the medicine and costs and everything. he said some people try to let the dog out live the worm but theres no promise the dog will live that long with a worm taking over her heart. please share any info u have on heartworms. thank you

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Answer by Katie E
so sorry to hear about your dog.
heartworms are very, very bad and you really need to think about the long-term treament options. a lot of times, untreated they are deadly.

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Question by fyouimatwirp: What are heartworms, in dogs?
Ok, so both of my puppies have heartworms…
I know that they get it from blood transfusions… like from other dogs, when a mosquito bites one infected dog, it will infect other dogs too…

I was just wondering… how did the heartworms start?
I mean, cancer, aids, asthma… all of these diseases, didnt pop up until the last two centuries…

How did heartworms start originally…
if anyone knows.. shed some light please…

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Answer by ice queen
your dog gets bitten by a mosquito it affects the dogs tissue and travels to the heart hence heart worms

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Question by joey322: how expensive is it to treat heartworms in dogs?? not surgery, but the other treatments??
i was under the impression that treating heartworms in a dog is very costly, but our friend’s dog has them and they seemed to think the treatment would be “no big deal”…..

hmmmm……
for those of you misinformed…SOME extreme cases have to be treated surgically b/c the worms are so infested that the dog would not survive the “flushing” of the worms out the system.

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Answer by theadesmoines
You need a medication from a vet and it’s less than $ 80 for the full treatment.

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Question by Rebecca: do dogs always have a cough if they have heartworms?
Someone told us that our 10year old outside dog has heartworms because he won’t eat nor drink very much. He will eat a little chicken breasts ( maybe 2 little pieces at a time) and a little water if we hold a bowl in front of him. I have even given him a couple of tablespoonfuls of Karo syrup. He does not throw up nor has blood in his stool. We were also told that if he has heartworms that he would be coughing, but he doesn’t. He has lost weight.

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Answer by ThePitBullLover
Coughing, lack of appetite and sever weight loss are signs of Heartworms…Take him to the Vet

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