But in severe cases, they can lead to inflammation, weight loss, diarrhea, and occasionally anemia. Your veterinarian can diagnose your dog for whipworms with a fecal sample and will prescribe a treatment plan suitable to your dog’s needs – often three monthly treatments are required.

Additionally, you may see dead worms in your dog’s stool for a few days following treatment, or your dog may have diarrhea as they digest the dead worms. Most of the time, regardless of what you see in their stool, recently wormed dogs behave like normal.

Under ideal conditions, this takes approximately four weeks. These infective larvae are able to survive in the environment for long periods of time and are particularly resistant to changes in temperature and humidity. The best environmental treatment is prevention.

We advise regular worming of puppies from birth to 6 months of age. Puppies 6 months of age and adult dogs are advised to be routinely wormed three to four times a year. It is safest to discuss which wormer to use with your vet to ensure it is safe for your dog, its life stage and that the correct dose is given.

Yes she sure can. It can take up to 1 week to rid the first round of worms in her system. Then as the worms in her system go through their 2 week life cycle (from baby worms to adult worms that you see in the poop) they should be treated again as a re-emergence of worms is seen.

How do I get rid of worms in puppies? Although worms are a nasty business, they’re fairly easy to treat. You can give your puppy a worming treatment like Drontal, which comes in the form of a liquid oral solution suitable for puppies aged two weeks and older.

In light of these limitations, and with consideration of the toxicity levels of garlic, clients should be advised that garlic is not proven as an effective anthelmintic (against multiple species or a single species) for use in dogs and cats to prevent or treat an intestinal worm burden.