Davey’s Gift from Dr. Garner
Heartworm Disease in Dog Surgical Removal
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we saw this in class and we were freakin out!
poor dog
Wow. This is amazing. That’s one very lucky dog!
OMG my dog is on the heartworm treatment. I understand this situation. My dog is on her 3rd vaccine and is on a lot of pain. it would break my heart to see her die. She is not is started in november and now is march and im still not done!! but its all worth it !!
this is just sad, hope ur pet gets well soon! man it would be hard to hear my dog has heartworms
Wondering how the patient was doing after surgery. Anyone with any idea ? Will reperfusion syndrome be a concern in this surgery ?
Microfilaria are the offspring of adult worms, that are taken up by a mosquito in a blood meal…whats infective to your dogs are larval stages 4 and 5 aka juveniles
yea..my dog was over 6 months old, so he had to go thru the treatments. doing well now :)
@VadersUTube There are no “worms” present in dog less than 6 months of age, only microfilariae if the dog has been infected. Six months is the length of time it takes the microfilariae to mature into juvenile heartworms. Therefor both types of heartworm preventative i.e. Heartgard or Interceptor will kill the microfilariae and not harm the puppy less than 6 months of age.
@tornadochick2k7 Not all of your heartworm preventatives. Heartgard and Revolution which have ivermectin, only kill the microfilariae and do nothing to the adult or juvenile heartworm. Interceptor and Sentinel cannot be given to a dog that has heartworms!
Thanks for posting this video. All the online information on heartworms make it sound like this type of surgery is the last resort. But now that I see the size of these suckers seems to me killing the microfilariae with drugs is the way to go and then remove the adults this way so the dog doesn’t die from adults is the way to go. How big a surgery is this? Expensive? Dangerous to the pet?
Thanks.
I am glad you posted this video. Hope it does some good (TAKE YOUR DOGS TO THE VET ON A REGULAR) Its part of owning a dog just like feeding it properly with proper food
Goodness, this was difficult to watch. I feel terrible that my dog is going through this. I just adopted him, too. : (
Mmmm spaghetti… I want those for dinner
Prevention only kills the actual worms in very young pups (less than 6 mos. or so). After that, it only prevents further infection.
Prevention does kill what is already there, that’s why it’s so dangerous to give a heartworm positive dog heartworm prevention.
There is a treatment for heartworm disease which requires several expensive injections. That kills off all the worms in the body. Then you put your dog on monthly heartworm prevention, which is what people are supposed to do anyway.
How do you know that all the worms were removed? and that they won’t repopulate in the dogs body again?
I hate worms, bugs, insects, parasites, viruses ugh.
At 2 minutes 49 secs
@sixredapples i didn’t see the worms wrigglign like a spider. can you give me the times so i can view them?? ugh gross
they get them from mosquitoes.
A dog is bit by a mosquito carrying the larvae of a heartworm in the lifecycle stage called L3..usually a mosquito bites a dog (dog A) who is infected with the microfilaria(heart worms), the heartworm larvae must go through lifestages from L1-L3 inside of the mosquito, then the mosquito bites a dog with the L3 larvae in it. If the dog is not on a heartworm preventative (like Heartguard-orally 1x/month) then the dog will be infected. It takes months to become the worms seen here-worst Ive seen
I saw this for the first time at school a few weeks ago-am just blown away at how bad this poor dogs heart was overwhelmed with the worms—this is all preventable too. They should make it a law for owners to have ones dog on preventative heart worm medication- if not, one should be prosecuted.
If you pick up a stray & they have been bitten by an infected mosquito within the past 5 months, the test may still be negative, but the dog is infected. Reason: test only picks up the antigens shed by the adult worms. Prevention meds won’t kill what’s already there. Ask me how I know this.
this poor dog :(