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December 2006
I wish I had good news regarding an update on Hunter. I sent a message back in September regarding our Beagle, Hunter, and the fact that the most recent vet who cared for him immediately took him off of K-9 Advantix. He had been diagnosed with epilepsy after everything else was ruled out. Well, we just ended our more than two-year battle trying to get him seizure free and since he had been off of Advantix - his seizures disappeared and he was almost completely weaned off of his medications. It was finally good news. Now the bad news - we just had to have our boy put to sleep as he developed severe liver damage as a result of the high dosages of medications he had to be on over the past two years namely Pheno Barbital and Potassium Bromide. Please let others know that if they are experiencing seizures with their dog or if they have gotten a diagnosis of epilepsy and are still applying these toxic flea and tick medications to their animals, they should discontinue its use before other damaging things can happen over time. It is hard to get the companies and even vets to attest that these products can lead to such trauma but in my heart I feel that if I had known this in his early stages, we could have stopped applying this poison monthly and might still have had some real quality time to spend with our boy. I still feel grateful to have found your website even if just to have been able to give him a few good months or so seizure free. Thanks for your kindness and even though Hunter has now gone to a better place, I will still continue to visit your web site and let anyone know that I can about the horrendous effects of these products.
Donna 12/1/06
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WHAT ABOUT THE EFFECTS ON HUMANS FROM FRONTLINE PLUS? I GOT SOME OF IT ON MY HAND AND HAD TO BE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. IT STARTS OUT WITH A DRY MOUTH AND NOT BE ABLE TO FOCUS, THEN I COULDNT BREATH. I WAS RELEASED A COUPLE HOURS LATER BUT FELT REALLY BAD FOR OVER A MONTH. TOO MANY SYMPTOMS TO LIST. TWO YEARS PRIOR TO THIS I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL FOR A WEEK AND THE DOCTOR HAD NO CLUE. IT WASNT UNTIL I GOT IT ON MY HAND THAT I REALIZED WHAT CAUSED THIS. DO NOT USE FRONTLINE. EVEN WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS OK, I PET THE DOGS AND GOT SICK AGAIN. I NEVER HAD A SEIZURE BEFORE, BUT I REALLY FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO HAVE ONE. JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF ANYBODY ELSE HAD THIS PROBLEM OR FELT A LITTLE STRANGE AFTER APPLYING IT TO YOUR DOG.
JIM 12/6/06
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On Christmas eve I could not obtain frontline or advantage, so I purchased Bio Spot thinking it would be less effective but give my dog some relief until after the holidays. When I treat my animals I purchase the dog product and as per my vet place 1 drop on each cat and the rest on my dog. I did this with Bio Spot, my animals all became ill within a couple of hours, my dog was vomiting, and my cats had neurologic symptoms from staggering to seizing. I transported all the cats to an emergency treatment center where 2 were hospitalized. My oldest cat needed to stay for 2 nights and the other 1 night. It was the worst thing that could happen to us. I did nothing but cry on Christmas thinking I killed my cats. What if I had a small child that touched my treated dog. The vet told me there is a class action lawsuit against Bio Spot, why is this still allowed to be sold on the market?
Cindy 12/31/06
Barnegat NJ
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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.
