Sentinel and Nexgard

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Has anyone heard of any concerns using the two at the same time? I haven't found anything online, but still looking.

I'm having issues with fleas here right now and the vet stated we're having a BAD year due to not having any real freezing winters recently. Ugh! I tried Advantage, Advantix, and Frontline (nothing really did anything). I read the post about Advantage and the issues that brings about so I stopped using it. I even tried Capstar along with Frontline, nada. I finally gave up and spent the $25 for Nexgard. Ouch. But FINALLY no more itching and biting!!! I even saw dead fleas.

But who knows if they're picking them up still. Summer is ending, it's cooling off, but yuck. Who knows. I want to stop the cycle and thought of getting Sentinel since it's time to renew my heartworm protection (yeah, let's not get into the whole don't need it year-round bit, I know, but still).

I figured, that would stop any surviving fleas from reproducing and Nexgard will kill it. Seriously, is Nexgard worth it? For me, it is right now, but damn, $25 a pill!!!!!

Thoughts?
 
I think I, personally, would choose Interceptor and Nexguard or Bravecto over Sentinel doubling up the flea/tick meds. I looked into Sentinel's flea/tick a couple years ago and it is really short term and not very good. As to HW protection (any and all of them) -- I do it year round but every other month. I have done it this way for years now.
 
I don't like nexgard! Normally we are given advantage 11 for our foster pups but this time pilot dogs gave us a years supply of Nexgard, for the first time ever this year I am now seeing fleas on the dogs.
 
You don't want to use Advantix, Advantage, or Saresto on shelties. In the University of NC study on shelties, it was shown that shelties treated with those were 9.3 TIMES more likely to get gallbladder mucocele.
 
Spirit is on Interceptor and Simparica (which is new). She's done great on them. She doesn't do well with any of the topicals but this combo seems to work fine.
 
Nexgard is the preferred flea option here, partly because of the tick component (with paralysis tick you just can't risk something not working). I believe Nexgard is made by the makers of Frontline - and I wonder if they've had to come up with this newer option after the declining use in Frontline because of the apparent flea immunity to it. My problem with Nexgard is the weight range, Deska's just on the border and I hate to give him the higher dose. The vet says you can't chop them up either because the active ingredient isn't evenly spread through the chewable.

I just wish they'd come up with a new spot on rather than chewable. My dogs get an upset tummy from chewables.
 
Cubby2014 said:
You don't want to use Advantix, Advantage, or Saresto on shelties. In the University of NC study on shelties, it was shown that shelties treated with those were 9.3 TIMES more likely to get gallbladder mucocele.
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I saw your other post about this, it's one reason I was trying to get away from Advantix/Advantage. Hard to do with Frontline doesn't work. Hence my post. :)
 
We have year round fleas here with our mild weather, but I try and go minimal on insecticides of any kind. What has worked well for us is a generic version of PROGRAM, which is lufenuron, it is a chitin inhibitor rather than a flea killer, but it will prevent flea reproduction, so it will clean up your environment. The kind I get now that PROGRAM has been discontinued, is a combo of lufenuron and generic Capstar. So once a month fleas get killed off, and then the lufenuron keeps then from multiplying. Yes they still get occasional fleas, but it works well for us. Fleas LOVE me, and I never get bit any more. Sentinel actually is a combo of heartworm meds and lufenuron. The stuff I get can be found at Petsneedmeds.com. It is very inexpensive since it is generic.
 
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