04/21/2025
WARNING - Long read with a lot of information regarding Tick Prevention, studies included.
TREATING YOUR PETS OF FLEAS & TICKS? 🚫✋️
Recent Study highlights that one of the most popular Flea & Tick treatments in the world may negatively affect your pet’s behaviour.
Fipronil is an insecticide and one of the most popular veterinary drugs used to control fleas and ticks and is available worldwide. Recently, researchers wanted to know why dogs & cats appeared to be restless and excited following fipronil administration, so they conducted a study which was published by Science Direct. The results are pretty alarming.
A new study was released very recently that looked into the effects of fipronil, the active insecticide in these products, on pets and the results were alarming. High levels of fipronil were found in every tissue in these pet's bodies, including the brain. The studied showed that fipronil affects neurotransmitters in the brain which affect dopemine and seratonin release and could lead to heightened anxiety, as well as cognitive and behavioural issue for these animals, such as, sleep disorders, learning disorders, stress, lethargy, and even short term and long term memory loss.
According to the scientists:
“The behavioral activation observed in the present study may be due to an increase in dopamine levels in the striatum. Therefore, we theorize that fipronil also affects emotional and cognitive behaviors in dogs and cats, particularly as many appear to be restless and excited following fipronil administration.
However, the pharmacodynamics and neurotox- icity from the usage of fipronil as a veterinary drug has not been greatly explored. Neurotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, reproductive toxicity, and disruption of endocrine function have been reported in mice and rats after oral administration of fipronil. Additionally, fipronil is reported to affect their emotional and cognitive behaviors (Godinho et al., 2016; Terçariol and Godinho, 2011). In the above mentioned toxicity tests, the effects of fipronil on the nervous, circulatory, blood, and endocrine systems were verified. However, sufficient toxicity studies have not been conducted on the effects of fipronil on the emotional and cognitive behaviors of mammals."
The present study is a new approach to toxicity testing. Moreover, based on the results of our study, extrapolation to dogs and cats and further verification are necessary, particularly in understanding the effects triggered via fipronil treatment on emotional and cognitive behaviors.”
Study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004835752100078X?via%3Dihub
The Isozazoline based products (Bravecto, etc.). These also cause neurological. Issues and have been known to cause seizures. Anti-Vaccinosis is effective on expediting recovery from Isozazoline toxicity as well.
Scientists are also currently looking into the shocking level of fipronil and other toxic pesticides contaminating our waterways.. they think their may be a link to the alarming reduction in bees we are seeing across the globe.
Study :
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201117085940.htm
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