About Advantage Flea Control For Cats
Imidacloprid is the active ingredient in Advantage Flea Control For Cats. It stops the flea cycle by destroying the female before she lays more eggs and killing any larvae already on the cat. The larvae is dead in 20 minutes from the time of contact. Advantage is a superior flea control method because it kills off fleas during all of their stages of life. The fleas nervous system is effected and basically overstimulated, which causes them to be paralyzed and then to die. During this process it might seem like there are more fleas because the dying overstimulated fleas will run to the surface of the cat's body.
Since it Advantage Flea Control For Cats kills the fleas at all of their life cycles it is a good long term product. If your house is infested with fleas it will stop the cycle of fleas and the hatching and growth to adult fleas will be terminated, thus ridding your home of fleas in the long run. Any larvae that have previously fallen off of your cat before the treatment can still hatch in your carpet. To kill those fleas use another product made to kill them in the carpet. Your cat and your house will be flea free, if you continue using Advantage for cats.
Advantage Advantage Flea Control For Cats is a topical medicine applied to the cat's neck. Push your cat's fur aside before applying the medicine. It goes through all of the cat's coat by taking advantage of its movement and skin oils. It works via the sebaceous glands This isn't the old school poison method of flea control. Instead, it inhibits the development of the larvae and it disrupts the nerve cells of the fleas. It also inhibits the flea growth hormones of the egg and larvae. Advantage goes for the invertebrate nervous system and doesn't have any effect on the nervous systems of animals with vertebrae.
It halts the development from egg to larvae to larvae to an adult flea. So it doesn't incite any resistance to its active ingredient from one generation of fleas to another. The fleas cannot become resistant to the nervous system attack of Advantage. The active ingredient is water resistant, so if the cat gets out in the rain, she is still protected from fleas. Sunlight doesn't stop the effectiveness of Advantage. The treatment is good for four weeks.
Advantage Flea Control For Cats stops the fleas from biting a cat within 3-5 minutes of application. The fleas begin dying within an hour and the death toll will be 98%-100% in 12 hours. It will kill fleas trying to reinfect within 2 hours. A cat with allergies will get fast relief with Advantage because it eliminates the cause of flea dermatitis and allergies.
Advantage Advantage Flea Control For Cats comes in packs of 4 and according to the cats weight. The orange pack is for cats weighing 0-9 pounds and the blue package is for cats weighing over 9 pounds.
Side effects are rare and mild and are normally allergies to the non-active ingredient. Never apply Advantage for dogs to your cat ; cats are very sensitive to one of its ingredients.
