Treatments?

Question
Hi, I have a nine month old female beagle and I recently for a small letter saying that she was due for following treatments:

Antech Heartworm Antigen ELISA
Revolution K9 5.1 kg-10 kg 60

I was wondering if you could help me understand what they are.
Thank you!

Answer
What this means is that she needs to be tested for Heartworm Disease and she needs her 6 month supply of heartworm prevention. The ELISA test is a type of test to detect adult heartworms in the body.

Hopefully she has been on prevention since she was 6 weeks old. You really should get her tested now and keep her on prevention for life- once a month.

If she gets heartworms, the treatment is costly, dangerous and now becoming almost impossible to get due to a shortage of the drug to treat it.

So if her test is negative, do NOT ever take her off of her monthly pills.