Flea Control

For anyone who is looking to get rid of fleas from your pet super fast, Capstar should be number one on the list of flea control products to buy. Today’s flea control product review is all about Capstar, a fast-acting and extremely effective flea killer.

How does it work?

Capstar is a fast-acting adulticide which starts working in as little as 30 minutes, and will kill all fleas that are on your pet within around 4 hours. It contains nitenpyram, which blocks the transmission of neural messages in the flea, causing almost instant death. It is an adulticide only, meaning that it doesn’t do anything to kill flea eggs or larvae. Capstar will remain effective for 24-48 hours.

Is it safe?

Capstar is safe fo use with other flea control products, as well as with heartworm prevention, antibiotics, vaccines and deworming medications. It is safe to use in puppies and kittens 4 weeks of age and older, as long as they weigh over 1kg. It is also safe to use in pregnant and nursing dogs and cats.

How to use it

If you are using an insect growth regulator for flea control (like Sentinel Spectrum), sometimes you can still get a flea burden on your pet when conditions promote large numbers of fleas. This doesn’t mean the product isn’t working – insect growth regulators prevent fleas from laying fertile eggs and don’t kill them indirectly. It just means that you need to use another product to kill the adults when they are present in large numbers on your pet. This is where Capstar comes in.

Capstar is generally used along with other flea control products as an integrated approach to flea control. It is commonly given to pets that are on Sentinel Spectrum during the summer period when they are likely to pick up large numbers of fleas, as Sentinel does not kill adult fleas, only flea eggs. In these circumstances it is usually given around once a week.

It is also commonly given to pets with a flea infestation the day before or on the day of starting other flea control products, to kill all of the adult fleas on the pet. This will help to prevent contamination of the environment with flea eggs.

Capstar can also be used as its own as a flea control product. Given every 48 hours, capstar is very effective at preventing flea bites on the pet. The only downside with using Capstar in this manner is that it is quite expensive to do this for a long period of time.

Overall, Capstar is a very safe and effective flea control product. It is generally not suitable to use long term on its own, due to the expense and the inconvenience of giving a tablet every 2 days to your pet. It is however quite good at killing fleas, and this makes it very handy to quickly reduce flea burdens in pets.

To a flea free pet,

Simon

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