Dogs treated for fleas releases chemicals to kill insect water if they swim
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If your dog jumps to the nearest stream, pond or lake given half a chance, do not use spot-on treatments Fleas and ticks, Say researchers.
A study shows that if dogs are sink in water, their skin and feathers can release the level of active ingredients and animals eating birds – including birds – in 28 days after treatment.
“If your dog always swims, you don’t have to treat it with spot-on,” as Rosemary Perkins At the University of Sussex, UK.
If the spots are initially identified, they are mistakenly considered he has no consequences for the wider environment. In 2011 only a European Paperina was made suggest animals hidden from water for 48 hours afterAnd this suggestion is not based on any experiments, says Perkins. “I’ll find no support of evidence for that. It’s just a thumb-suck number.”
He began to doubt that there was an issue after found Fipronil, one of the pesticides used in spots, in UK streams. “We found a wonderful high level,” says Perkins.
So his team applied to treatments containing Fipronil or A neonicotinoid called imidacloprid of 25 and 24 dogs, indeed. After five, 14 or 28 days, dogs were immersed in water to their shoulders in plastic pipes for 5 minutes, and the level of water pesticides were then measured.
The team knows that even after 28 days, the amount of pesticide to go out with a large dog at this time is enough to have 100-cubic water water. That’s the number of a pond of some meters across, but even larger bodies of water exceeds the safe limit if large dogs treated frequently, says Perkins.
He argues that the world’s regulators should change instructions but the suspects can take it long, if it happens. But dog owners can work today – they should use spots only spots if necessary, rather a deterrent, as well as the dogs away with water for at least one month after treatment. “The home search is that there is a risk element if your dog swims at any point within the period.”
There is now an option in treatments in the form of oral tablet form, but Perkins says it’s not clear if it’s better. Active ingredients are lasting chemicals released by faeces and can pollute soils, he says. “We just don’t know what their effects are.”
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