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December 2005
I put this product [Bio Spot for Dogs] on my kitten yesterday. She has had to have emergency treatment at the animal hospital for 24 hours last night. As well as she is now in the vets getting more emergency treatment. So far the expense has been right at 4 hundred dollars to save our animals life. Do not know the damage she is going to suffer because of this.
Susan 12/1/05
The EPA called me yesterday afternoon. I explained my whole story and a man named Steve Parker will be coming to my home Monday around 10 a.m. He agrees that there should be better warnings on the packages. Radar came home last night has to go back today to the Dr for more treatment. She falls down and is very upset. I hope we can make a difference for other animals. I think it is pretty neat how I got straight through to EPA with such an instant response as well. If you wish I will let you know how the meeting goes.
Susan 12/2/05
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We had a German Short-haired Pointer named Sammy who died because of applying just ONE single application of BioSpot. His violent seizures started 20 minutes after the application - we immediately called the Vet who directed us to wash him off with soap and water. From the time it took us to bring him to the side of the house - he had had another violent seizure. He had a total of 12 seizures within a four day period. Testing showed he was positive for lyme disease as well (which, according to the vet, could potentially have caused seizures - but at the same token had killed numerous cats in our area).
The seizures were classic symptoms to everyone else's - foaming at the mouth, arched back, stiffened legs, heaving chest, "running" on the floor....long story short, he ended up on Phenabarbitol twice a day -which he in fact, was doing well on. About 20 days later though, his seizure came back furiously and even more violent than the rest, and lasted almost 40 minutes - during this seizure he went blind and in the time it took to get him to the overnight emergency veterinarian, he had a fever of 108.
Our only recourse was to put him asleep - the probable deterioration of the lining of his stomach from the fever and the brain damage along with the blindness was just too much for my children to take.
All this in just ONE short month - our Sammy was only 1 year and 3 months old.
I have contacted the EPA and reported this event to them. I have also contacted Farnam Pet Products - with which I was transferred to the Risk Manager - only to leave a message on her machine. As of December 9th, I have not heard back from them.
We need to get this product OFF the market.
Carol 12/9/05
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My Maltese has been having seizures and I never made the connection until I looked up seizures on line and found this web page. I have been using Revolution on all three of my animals. The cat has just developed a lump and the larger dog a lump also. I thought maybe the pest control service could be a problem and canceled the service until I can figure out this. I will discontinue the Revolution but now I wonder what about the heart worm and flea prevention issue. I am so confused about what to do now.
Kim 12/15/05
Just an update. I called Pfizer and spoke to their vet after taking down a lot of information on all of my animals they will make a report and will refund partial of the money spent on the unopened Revolution. They assigned a case number to each of my three animals and will be calling my former vet for more info. I thought I would let you know in case it can help someone else to know they were pretty cooperative and thorough.
Kim 12/29/05
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My dog of 12 years just recently starting having seizures. She has had two in the past week. Originally, I attributed the seizures to her age, but as I was searching for info about seizures, I came across your site about BioSpot. We gave her a treatment over a month ago, and I wonder even though a month went by without anything—could these seizures be linked to using this product? Who knows, she may have had several other seizures when we were in another room or during the night? Have any other people experienced a "delayed" reaction?
Gary 12/15/05
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My Maltese/Bishon had a very serious reaction to the Bio Spot Flea & Tick Control. 20 minutes after applying she began seizuring and convulsing. I had no idea it was due to the flea medication. After a visit to the Vet and some medication, four days later she seems to be doing fine. It was a very frightening experience and I am just furious that this product continues to be sold. No where on the packaging does it mention that the ingredients in the product can attack the dogs nervous system and cause severe reactions or even death.
Cathy 12/19/05
I did contact Farnam and they told me exactly what you said. I also contacted the EPA and filed a complaint. The EPA informed me that several other products that contain the same ingredients as the Bio Spot have been pulled and are no longer being manufactured, but not the Bio Spot. I think that is absurd!!!!
There has to be something else we can do to make sure this product is taken off the market...
Cathy 12/19/05
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I just came across your website today after we have spent two days trying desperately to figure out why our 2 ½ year old boxer passed away yesterday. We used BioSpot treatment about 6 weeks ago and then switched to the shampoo as well. I used it on Brutus three times, up until a couple weeks ago. He started feeling sick and throwing up last week a day or two before Christmas. By the time Tuesday rolled around we were calling the vet to find out what the problem was. They ran some blood tests and found out that he had a massive kidney infection and was in renal failure.
He was admitted on Wednesday and immediately put on IV fluids and antibiotics. Unfortunately by Friday, his body functions had begun to shut down and he was beyond help. I went to visit him and say good bye and then sat with him while we put him to sleep.
In your experience, does this sound like the flea treatment would be a factor in an otherwise healthy dog?
If so, where do we go from here? I know nothing will bring him back, but I wouldn't want anyone else to go through this.
Any thoughts would be helpful.
Ron 12/31/05
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DISCLAIMER: Below are messages that I have received from others whose dogs and cats experienced adverse reactions after using flea control products. I have no way of knowing if the information in these messages is factual, or if the products they used were the actual cause of the adverse reactions.
