Anyone used Bravecto for fleas?

[luccamum]

We have a 9 year old Weim, who is allergic to Advocate.
We have been just about surviving on Frontline and twice daily flea combing, this weekend we had a flea explosion courtesy of the cat, who came in covered in fleas.
I spent the weekend, Indorex -ing the house, and flea combing the cat.
The cat went to the vet last night, and was Advocated, and we asked the vet what, if anything could we use on the dog.
He recommended Bravecto, which is a new 3 monthly tablet, which treats fleas and worms.
Not cheap, 1 tablet was £32!
We gave it him last night, no problems so far, and this morning, no fleas!!!!!
Have we found the Holy Grail of flea treatments?

[Praisebe]

We use Nexguard here which is a combined flea and worm prevention lozenge. Its about £25 per lozenge and each treatment offers 3 months of coverage in case fleas end up on the dog or they get worms

[nellieellie]

Just to say pmoore. Don’t put Vaseline on ticks. It can make them excrete into skin and cause infection. Just remove with a tom o ticks remover (couple of quid from amazon). Easy.

[nellieellie]

I’d never use Bravecto. I have 2 dogs, one large and a fluffbutt. Don’t use any chemical wormer or flea treatment. Use Billy no mates, and a essential oil spray if going into tick territory. My large dog picked up fleas from a Kennels once but after a quick spray, they jumped ship and were gone in a few days. Do regular wormcount s and feed raw. To date no worms. (Touch wood). Advocate and Bravecto are basically toxins. They can cause reactions in some dogs. I don’t think they’re necessary.

[spottymerlin]

Email debts and Merck and European medicines agency if you don't believe the over 40'000 people in the Facebook group 'does bravecto kill dogs?'
Request to see the graph (defra) of breeds most affected. Labrador is at the top of the list.
My lovely dog took this drug, within 24 hours develops renal failure. She is now dead.
I post in here not for hysteria. I just owe it to any other dog owners who might see this, as I wish I had, and choose one of the older spot on treatments.
I regret so much giving my healthy dog this drug that made her so unwell.
I reported it to Merck and they took the details and my dogs history from the vet.
She's now a statistic.
You may want to read the published data on how the drug stays in the dogs system. It does not disappear after 3 months it builds up. Yes it's less effective against fleas after 3 months, but the drug remains in the dog and build up.

[user1484043176]

used Advocate 23rd December but it hasn't worked, does any one know if it would be safe to use Bravecto now, 10th January?

[pmoore1234]

My friend had to rush her dog to the vet after using it, and then ahe did some research on it and found dogs have DIED and been left with permanent damage from it.you can put vaseline on the tick which will kill it, and a tick comb.farmhouse louse powder works for fleas.so be careful id you use it.my friend was lucky her dog lived others have not.

[user1466334708]

Well, the synthetic medicine have often side effects, we all know that. But I would not defend a medical product causing severe side effects like death even if my dog would be pretty fine after that. I have never seen a product leaflet warning thhe user that one of the side effect can be the death. If you think it's better to call it general side effects that's your opinion. I call it severe side effects and advice not to risk it.

There have been cases reported to FDA and the manufacturer about two of the drugs, including Bravecto.
yourpetsneedthis.com/bravecto-and-nexgard-ade-reports/

I think I have contributed enough to this chat and aswered that I have given Bravecto for fleas to my dog. I have provided my data and you can see many more data online....

[Noitsnotteatimeyet]

Are you a vet user? do you have proper data to support your post? And I don't mean anecdotal 'data'

[ImBrian]

I didn't think there were any medicines/treatments etc with absolutely no side effects?

[user1466334708]

It means your dog is lucky. I would never risk and advice people not to give Bravecto to any dog. There were already too many dogs who were not able to cope with side effects. Nobody wants to try on own pet if it's going to make it or not.

[ImBrian]

Mine has it every three months. I pay about £36 for his wormer and the flea tablet and get the 4th month free. He's been tick and flea free and not had any side effects.

[user1466334708]

Our dog became seriously ill after he got Bravecto from the vet. He stopped eating and felt so unwell that he couldn't walk down the stairs. We thought he would die. It took good two weeks before he improved. His liver nearly failed. I would never ever recommend to play with this so called medicine. There are many reports online that prove the similar experience as I have. Many dogs were not so lucky like ours and unfortunately passed away. Why this c* it still prescribed?

[noddingoff]

found this ninetysixpercent
www.noah.co.uk/issues/briefingdoc/21-endectocides.htm
Think it might be mostly about macrocyclic lactones rather than isoxazolines (the class fluralaner is in....had to look that up!) but from what I can make out, the wormer in poo doesn't spread far in the environment, therefore the majority of non pathogenic insect larvae going about their own business don't get affected much. Don't know who paid for this research, mind...
It does disturb me how scared people are of parasites. I wonder whether a lot of the compliance with flea and worm control stems from this fear. I picked a load of little ticks off a dog this morning; the owner's daughter was interested in looking at them and her mother told her about ten times "Don't touch them!! Don't touch them!!" even after I explained that they weren't going to attach to her daughter. (felt a bit insulted actually -obviously it was OK for the grubby old vet to pick a herd of ticks off with her bare hands, but heaven forfend that one should come in contact with her daughter...)

[Lonecatwithkitten]

Teneray you will always need a prescription and a vet is duty bound to prescribe the correct dose. We don't know how the drug is distributed in the tablet it maybe uneven which means there is a very risk of under or overdosing by splitting the tablet.
Some vets have a loyalty scheme where your fourth dose in a 12 month period is free this considerable reduces the cost in what compared to other treatments is a very cost effective product.

[Teneray]

Hi just curious about a comment by villainousbroodmare, about buying the larger tablets and breaking to an appropriate dose - is that just something you can do in other countries? Here in uk I believe it needs a vets prescription, my vet doesn't stock and unlikely to give me a script for a larger dose so I could break it myself. Even the UK online vet supplies state a script needed. I hope I'm wrong and would love someone to tell me how to obtain larger strength. Thanks

[reddye12]

Ninetysixpercent - Thanks so much for the information. I am nuts about the environment and had not thought about this. Thank you for bringing it to light. :-)

[FiveHoursSleep]

I have just bought Bravecto for both my large dogs. I was using Advocate but our latest dog is a swimmer and it's not going to last long on him. The tablets are Huge but they must be like a doggy rolo as both dogs scoffed them without a problem.
Dog 2 seems less scratchy already.

[Lonecatwithkitten]

All the studies for Bravecto have been published in the Journal of Parasitology a peer reviewed well respected journal.
There are issues with every drug on the market, however with one third of UK ticks now carrying Lyme disease our pets are facing very real threats.
I have now sold over 1000 doses of Bravecto through my practice and we have had two cases of vomiting which the drug company refunded the clients and registered with the VMD as adverse reactions.

[kippersmum]

Five - Thanks for the Snopes link, very useful. My dog adores Bravecto, the 1st dose he had I put down on the side while I got the cheese ready to put it in, I turned round as he ate it off the counter!

[2468A]

Dog has been taking Bravecto for about 6 months now and not a flea in sight and no itching. I would recommend it (and do) to anyone with a dog.

Luckily our dog will eat anything so it just gets added to meal and its gone.

[villainousbroodmare]

Basildon, just means that you are not getting maximum efficacy from the Seresto collar as the chemical is meant to infiltrate the skin and it's being washed off to some degree as your dog swims.

[FiveHoursSleep]

Good information about the above claims of danger to dogs here.
m.snopes.com/bravecto-flea-and-tick-warning/

[kippersmum]

If anyone has links for medical trials etc for Bravecto I would love to see them. I tried Googling but found FB hysteria & not much else.

My 20 month old Collie has had 2 doses now, last one a few days ago. No ill effects whatsoever. Where he loves to run is known for having ticks. I want him to be fully protected, but don't want to give him a dangerous medicine.

In my limited experience it has been far, far better than Frontline

[mrslaughan]

Drug reactions happen, but for two closely related (as in from same re-homing organisation) makes me suspicious that it is something else. I have used it with my dog with no issue, and my vets has used it with a number of "patients " with no issue..... I want more than these accusations before I make up my mind. Lots of ticks and deer where I live, it's I not that he is protected.