What is the most effective flea and tick treatment for dogs?

Frontline Plus is our top nonprescription recommendation because it kills ticks and fleas, controls flea infestations, and kills chewing lice, all with one easy application. When used primarily for flea control, each dose of Frontline Plus lasts up to three months.

What flea and tick medicine do vets recommend?

Oral medications are some of the most effective flea medications currently available. Nexgard kills fleas and ticks, while Trifexis prevents fleas, heartworms, roundworms, hookworms and whipworms. Bravecto also prevents fleas and ticks, and is given only once every 3 months.

Which is better Frontline or Advantage?

Frontline Plus is slightly less expensive than Advantage II and protects both against fleas (in their various stages) and ticks (whereas Advantage only treats fleas and is more costly).

Which is safer Bravecto or NexGard?

Bravecto kills many types of ticks including the lone star tick for 8 weeks. Nexgard is the only FDA approved option for preventing infections that cause Lyme disease. Both products are safe for dogs when following directions and have been approved by the FDA to treat and prevent flea and tick infestations.

Is Bravecto or Nexgard safer?

Is there a pill for flea tick and heartworm?

Trifexis is a flavored tablet that contains two ingredients (spinosad and milbemycin oxime) for combined protection against heartworms, fleas and some intestinal parasites (hookworms, roundworms and whipworms). The other active ingredient, spinosad, kills the adult fleas on your dog before they can lay eggs.

Is Nexgard or Simparica better?

As you can see, both Nexgard and Simparica are extremely good and effective flea and tick treatment and they do not have a major difference between them. But that being said, Simparica does kill an additional tick specie and is relatively faster in eliminating fleas and ticks.

Is Frontline as good as Bravecto?

Conclusions: Bravecto (fluralaner) administered once orally to dogs in a chewable tablet was highly effective for 12 weeks against fleas and ticks on privately-owned dogs and was significantly non-inferior (ticks) and superior (fleas) in comparison with topical Frontline (fipronil) administered 3 times sequentially.