If it appears to be less effective than expected, you should have a follow-up appointment with your veterinarian. While there are no known contraindications or known interactions between Program for dogs and any drugs or other pet health supplements, it is advisable to disclose all medications your pet is currently taking when discussing the use of Program for cats with your veterinarian prior to them writing you a prescription for it.
Side effects resulting from the use of Program are uncommon, but in some instances, pet owners may see the following as a result of using the medication:. If any such side effects are not temporary and either continue or worsen then you should discontinue use and see your veterinarian. Capstar Nitenpyram.
Thanks for Subscribing! Program Lufenuron 4. Pet Size Don't know your pet's weight? If you can't get them on the scale, try this super simple method: Weigh yourself. Weigh yourself holding your pet.
Subtract the two numbers to get their weight. Select A Size Make sure that the pet has finished the entire dosage. Repeat every month, preferably on the same date. Key Benefits Effectively prevents flea populations Eliminates fleas thoroughly Prevents flea eggs and larvae from developing Safe for all breeds of dogs Provides monthly flea protection. Safety Keep out of reach of children. Do not administer to puppies under 2 weeks of age or less than 1 Kg bodyweight.
Wash your hands thoroughly after administering the tabs. Store in a cool and dry place. Ingredients Lufenuron. Reviews view all Reviews. Write Review.
Hope this does the job Many of my office collegues recommended to use this product so just have ordered it. Effective Fleas were the real headaches for our dog. Program's Lufenuron is a chemical with lipophilic properties, which is another way of saying that it binds well with fat. When Lufenuron is taken into the body of a dog or cat by oral or injectable means , it becomes attracted to and stored in the fat cells of the animal's body. As the Lufenuron present in the animal's bloodstream depletes either through flea consumption or through other bodily excretion pathways , the drug stored in the fat cells steadily leaches back into the animal's blood stream over time.
It takes a good 40 or so days for an oral dose of Lufenuron flea control to be completely expelled from the animal's fat stores and thereby rendered ineffective against fleas. The flea control effect of Lufenuron is therefore able to continue for the full month between oral doses. With the injectable product, more of the drug enters the body the product is not lost to the feces as much of the oral dose is and so more is taken up into the fat cells, ensuring a longer leeching process and thus a longer duration of effect 6 months.
Dogs and cats over 6 weeks of age can be treated with Program flea treatment i. Program flea control products are registered for use in dogs and cats only.
Lufenuron can be given to rabbits, but the use is off-label and can not be in any way guaranteed see your vet for information and doses. Toxicity studies performed on Lufenuron have found the chemical to be toxic to small aquatic organisms e.
For this reason, care must be taken to ensure that Lufenuron does not contaminate water supplies. Toxicity studies have found Lufenuron flea control to be "practically non-toxic to fish, birds and adult bees. Tests on laboratory animals and cell cultures have determined that the chemical, Lufenuron Program flea control does not cause mutations, cancer, fetal malformations or any other reproductive effects. It should therefore be safe to use in pregnant animals and animals intended for breeding see MSDS publications.
Additionally, even though Lufenuron accumulates within the fat of milk, it has not been found to have any negative effect on nursing puppies and kittens. Adverse effects are considered to be quite rare with Program flea control medications. Those that occur mostly take on the form of a mild gut upset or an allergic reaction which can happen in individuals with any medication.
Known side effects include: vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy sleepiness , depression and itching, redness and rashes of the skin only one or a combination of these may present in the one individual. Cats may sometimes develop a lump at the site of injection, if having the injectable product. This lump will generally resolve in a couple of weeks.
If you accidentally overdose your dog or cat, you should talk to your vet about it. It is important to remember, however, that when the early studies were being done on dogs and cats, they gave some 30x the normal dose of Lufenuron to puppies and some 17x the usual dose to cats and didn't record any significant or long-term effects.
An LD50 is the dose that will kill half of the study population. The MSDS considers Lufenuron to be non-irritant to skin or eyes rabbit studies and of low toxicity when given orally, inhaled or applied dermally. Guinea pig studies found that it was non-sensitising i. Discarded needles should always be safely disposed of in a designated "sharps" container. Animals with flea allergy dermatitis are allergically sensitized to fleas such that they have a severe skin reaction itching, scratching, rashing each time a flea bites them.
In such animals, the immune system is reacting inappropriately and extremely to elements antigens that are present in the flea's saliva. It can take a single flea bite to set a flea allergic animal off on a path of scratching you might not even see any fleas on the animal - the flea has simply jumped on, bitten and then jumped off again, leaving the animal to itch away. The issue with Program flea control Lufenuron is that it relies on the adult fleas feeding in order to exert its effect on the next generation of fleas.
It will not kill the adult fleas and, more importantly, it will not reduce or limit adult flea feeding times which is where allergic sensitization occurs - when the animal is exposed to the flea's saliva. Thus, it will not go a huge way towards helping cure flea allergic dermatitis at least in the first few months when adult fleas are still about and feeding off the allergic pet - see next paragraph.
With no fleas about, the animal with flea allergic dermatitis will improve and perhaps even resolve significantly. Dogs and cats in a flea-introduced environment were given Program flea control on a monthly basis and at the doses recommended by the Novartis Company the doses that the Program packet recommends.
Program flea control certainly has a role to play in getting rid of flea populations and ending flea allergy reactions, however, during the first few months at least, owners of flea allergic animals should also apply a flea control product that kills adult fleas quickly and reduces their feeding times.
Do be aware, however, that Program flea treatment will not prevent the dog or cat from catching fleas whenever it enters a flea infested environment e.
These fleas will leap onto your pet and bite it, starting the scratching all over again. In animals with flea allergy dermatitis, you really want to prevent this flea bite from occurring or at least limit the duration of flea feeding and so you should make sure to put a 'fast-kill' adulticide flea control product on your allergic pet if it is to leave your freshly-cleaned home.
Program flea control product links:. To go from this Program flea treatment page to my detailed Flea Control Page, click here. To go from this Program Lufenuron page to the Flea Pictures page, click here. St Leonards, , Havas MediMedia. Control of Ctenocephalides felis on dogs and cats using the insect growth regulator or chitin synthesis inhibitor lufenuron Program, in Egypt. Mode of action of lufenuron on larval cat fleas Siphonaptera: Pulicidae. In: Journal of Medical Entomology, Sep;35 5 Effect of lufenuron on chorionic and cuticular structure of unhatched larval Ctenocephalides felis Siphonaptera: Pulicidae.
In: Journal of Medical Entomology, Jan;36 1 Effect of an experimental systemic compound, CGA, on life stages of the cat flea Siphonaptera: Pulicidae. In: Journal of Medical Entomology, May;28 3 Use of injectable lufenuron for treatment of infestations of Ctenocephalides felis in cats. USA, , Blackwell Publishing. Pet Informed is not in any way affiliated with any of the companies whose productsappear in images or information contained within this article. Any images, taken by Pet Informed, are only used in order to illustrate certain points being made in the article.
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