Brewers Yeast For Cats Fleas
How To Fight Fleas
Author: Steve Rankin
The natural way:
a¢ Vacuum your home frequently and seal vacuum bags before disposing.
a¢ Wash the bedding of your dog weekly in warm soapy water. This is where fleas usually breed.
a¢ Bathing your pet weekly with a mild dog shampoo prevents flea invasion.
a¢ Use cedar shampoo for your dog, and put cedar oil in their sleeping mats. Cedar will repel fleas and other insects.
a¢ Fleas are attracted to dry skin, so to avoid it, give your dog Linatone oil mixed with its food. Excessive shampooing should be avoided.
a¢ A mixture of brewer's yeast and garlic, available in powder or tablet form can be given in small doses to your pet. This creates a certain odor in pets, and fleas are surely to avoid them.
a¢ Fresh or dried pennyroyal leaves is a natural flea repellent. Use this in carpets to avoid the abundance of fleas in the home. Do not use it if you have small children around, as this could be toxic.
a¢ A mixture of 60 ml of lavender oil with 2.8 liters of rock salt can also be placed in areas where dogs usually come in contact with and this solution could also be used to wash your dog.
a¢ Planting marigolds in the yard is helpful too, it repels certain types of bugs as well as fleas.
a¢ Boiled lemon or orange peel in water can be used as a dip for dogs and can be used too to soak in dog bedding for a few hours, then washed with warm soapy water.
a¢ Lukewarm water with little shampoo and detergent is a good way to prevent fleas. A dog's body may be dipped into the solution for fifteen minutes and then rinsed. This only works if flea infestation is light.
The natural way of treating fleas is effective only if the level of flea infestation is average to very few. This method usually is recommended for prevention only.
Different commercially available products with chemical contents:
a¢ Advantage. Active ingredient is imidacloprid. This is a flea poison, from Bayer. It is in a liquid form and applied to the skin, at the back of the dog, and works for about a month. This works by upsetting the nervous system of fleas when they come in contact with the liquid. This product is fast acting and is not absorbed into the internal organs and bloodstream of the dog.
Studies indicate that this product is highly toxic to fleas and other insects as well. A dog will be free from fleas in just a couple of days.
Ingredients are: imidacloprid -- a chloronicotinyl nitroguanidine integrated from the nitromethylene class of a compound. This joins the nicotinyl receptor sites of insects, thus upsetting normal nerve transmission which causes death.
A set of two vials costs 15-20 dollars.
a¢ Frontline. This product is very similar to Advantage, but is not water soluble, so alcohol is needed to wash it off. This can safely be used in pups, dogs, cats and kittens.
Efficiency in repelling lasts up to four months.
Active ingredients include: Fipronil 5-amino -1- (2, 6-dichloro-4 [trifluoromethyl]phenyl) -4- (1,R,S)- (trifluoromethyl0sulfinyl) -1H-pryazole-3-carbonitrile 0.29% inert ingredients 99.71%.
Fipronil works as a nervous transmission interruptor, which causes quick death to fleas and ticks. It is proven to kills 96% of fleas for the first two hours and 100% within 24 hours. Ticks die sooner than they attach themselves to the host. Fipronil is from the new phenylpyrazole class.
Very effective and can be considered safe, so long as dogs are not allergic to fipronil.
a¢ Knockout. Performs like Frontline and is as effective, but can only be used in dogs. Active ingredients: Pyriproxyfen: 21[1-methyl-2-(phenoxyphenoxy)ethyoxy] pyridine....0.05% cyclopropanecarboxylate 2.00% inert ingredients 97.95% Also has NYLAR, which is flea growth regulator.
a¢ Biospot. This is for topical application and kills up to 75 percent of fleas, eggs, and ticks. It also is a good repellant of mosquitoes and works for about a month. Temporarily, at times, it turns white hair to yellow. This can not be used in cats and contains permethrins and IGR.
a¢ Proban (cythioate) and Prospot (Fenthion). While not to be used in cats, they are widely used in dogs. This is absorbed by the bloodstream and fleas die due to the poison that is present in the blood. For it to work, it requires the bitting of fleas. There are certain conditions to be considered though. You are injecting a small dose of poison into your dog's body and side effects are not known. Then this does not help if a dog has flea allergy, and can not risk to be bitten.
Generally fleas abound during the summer months, when it is their breeding season. These commercial products can greatly help in fighting heavy flea infestation and needed where severe invasion occurs. However, it is always best to consult with your veterinarian as the choice of flea control will greatly depend on your life style.
Frequently Asked Questions
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QUESTION:
Brewers Yeast for flea control question. Does the yeast work right away?
Or does it take a few days to work. Would stuff like Frontline work better and last longer? Fleas on the dog aint too bad now . Does brewers yeast work for cats?. Thanks in advance all.Please no "get some flea soap" answers flea soap doesnt seem to work for long
heres a tip for dogs if there are just TONS of fleas take regular old cooking oil (fresh not used) put some on your hands and run your hands all over the dog dont forget the face and "other regions" lol you dont need to use tons just a little and the fleas just float to the surface and jump off. Take them outside of course before you do this or all the fleas will be in the house not sure if it works on cats but dogs definitely-
ANSWER:
Nothing works anywhere nearly as well as a liquid applied every month to the back of the dog's neck.
Frontline, Advantage, there are others, make sure to put it on your dog every month.
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QUESTION:
Does anybody know the proper doseage for giving Brewer's Yeast to cats for flea prevention?-
ANSWER:
I has worked at a pet shop for years... my dog has never once had fleas while using this product ... 1 tablet for every ten pounds of body weight....Brewers Yeast is known as nature’s wonder food, a name that it certainly deserves. It is an excellent source of all the major B vitamins (except B12). It also contains other vitamins, sixteen amino acids and fourteen or more minerals. Brewer Yeast is great call your local pet shop or call you vet and ask them if you don't trust me....
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QUESTION:
Is it safe to treat humans for flea bites with garlic and brewers yeast?
My daughter is allergic to flea bites, but we have cats that have fleas. We have tried treating the cats with a number of different products, both holistic and chemical, but we continue to have problems, especially during the summer. Someone suggested to add garlic and brewers yeast to the cat food. I know it sounds crazy, but would it be safe to put the same ingredients in my daughter's food? Or as long as I'm being crazy, could I give her the garlic and yeast pills that are sold through pet supply companies for "natural" remedies?-
ANSWER:
If you have tried treating the problem with holistic and chemical medications, it sounds like you might have a manifestation.You need spray your yard, give the cats regular baths and vacuum/clean the whole house.
Don't give your daughter brewers yeast...too much yeast can cause issues.
The only reason garlic is said to be a flea repellent is because they don't like the odor.Odorless garlic is not effective (and I have tried this method with myself)
Also, don't give your child pills that are not recommended for humans.Pet supplements have a different safety standard than human supplements.Purchase a human supplement.Although I am against putting pesticides on your pets, Advantage does work.I HAVE to use advantage because my pets come with me to work and fleas are not preventable there..kinda sucks because I don't like that crap.
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QUESTION:
Is Brewers Yeast ok to give to cats?
For flea control-
ANSWER:
Give it for health - may or may not work on keeping fleas off the cat. My first cat was fed cat food and I would put a teaspoon of Brewers Yeast on the food every other day - he never had fleas. But there is no guarantee it will do the same for your cat.
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QUESTION:
My cats have fleas and ringworm.. HELP!?
Oh my goodness. We have been battling ringworm for a month now, and even the humans have it. Now we have fleas everywhere. We have some new kittens that are just over a week old. I bought Frontline for all of the cats, and I've read that Pine Sol helps kill fleas. So I am going to sprinkle boric acid on the carpets and furniture, vacuum them, then use my carpet "steam cleaner" to "Pine Sol" them with a water solution.I also read about something called brewers yeast, which you are supposed to give to your animals with food, or spray it as a dilluted mixture in water. Since brewers yeast is a fungus, I was wondering if it would interact with the ringworm at all?
I am on a tight budget and cannot afford to take all the kitties to the vet, so please do not suggest it. I'm looking for something safe for my kittens and family that will help us get rid of the fleas and ringworm.
Any suggestions are welcome!
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ANSWER:
Frontline probably can't be used on the kittens. They are too young. Capstar is possible, but that also entails money that you might not have right now, and you seem to have your hands full.For kittens, often the only approach is constant combing with a flea comb, killing the fleas you get off them, and keeping it up to keep the number under control. Then, focus on eradicating them from the bedding and house area. Fleas cannot survive a trip through an upright vacuum cleaner.
There probably is confusion about brewer's yeast. It is not like baker's yeast, and is available in health food stores. It is an old line method of flea control. The thinking is that fleas don't like the taste of blood of an animal that has taken brewer's yeast. I used that many years ago for my cats, long before all these new approaches were available. Along with my eliminating the fleas from the house, giving them the tablets eliminated the fleas on them. My cats got to love the tablets so much, that I only had to shake the bottle to have them come running. It is also available, I believe, in a powder. Brewer's yeast is suitable for cats. Some cat foods even have it as an ingredient. It also helps make their fur nicer.
With ringworm, you may be cheapest to stick with the lime sulfur baths. I have given a link. For isolated spots, you can get an OTC product that has clotrimazole or miconazole and dab it on the spot. That is best if the spot is out of tongue reach. It will take several weeks to eliminate the fungus. That product will also work for people.
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