Whip worm experience and 2 questions!

[Sara Schultz]

Wow. This has been a hard couple of days. 

Lucy, now 16 months, has been diagnosed with whip worms. Ugh. After some hard nights (waking up 5-6 times per night, cleaning up vomit & diarrhea & showering her bottom off on the times when she didn't make it, etc.) and one night at the animal hospital to receive IV fluids, Lucy has now taken all the doses of the first round of medicine to get rid of the whip worms (we do another round in 3 weeks, and a final round in 3 months.)

So right now, I am giving her white rice and chicken while her stomach "gets settled". Also yogurt with live cultures to get some of the good bacteria back into her gut. So far, she has had no bowel movements since the diarrhea stopped. (I'm a little worried what will come out when she does have one.)

Questions:
1. She seems really hungry. Does anyone have a clue how much chicken and rice I should offer? I have to leave town tomorrow, and I need to leave my husband baggies with the amounts in the refrig. :)

2. Also, my vet said that Interceptor for heartworm also covers for some of these types of parasites. I NEVER want to experience anything like the past 5 days again, if we can help it. Poor puppy and poor me. LOL

Anyway, do any of y'all know of reasons I should NOT give Interceptor in place of Frontline? The vet said it would be fine if I want to do so. Why would I NOT want to do so if we could protect Lucy from more possible illnesses from parasites/worms?"

Thanks, doodle lovers!

[Linda and Murphy]

Nancie, I use the Comfortis along with the Sentinel as well. Ticks are not a problem here (or at least where I take Murphy). Its nice to know about the Frontline Plus.