Active ingredients: Imidacloprid 100mg/g Flumethrin 45mg/g
Seresto is a breakthrough in flea and tick protection, providing up to 8 months of continuous protection from fleas for dogs and cats and 4 months continuous protection from ticks for dogs.
- Protect your dogs and cats with a new, innovative, gold-standard collar.
- Seresto works to treat and prevent flea infestations by killing adult fleas on your pet and flea larvae in their surroundings for up to 8 months.
- Seresto also kills adult ticks, including the deadly Australian paralysis tick as well as brown dog and bush ticks for 4 months.
- Seresto also kills juvenile stages (larvae and nymphs) of brown dog ticks.
- For puppies from 7 weeks of age.
- For external use only.
- Ticks already on the dogs prior to treatment may not be killed immediately after collar application and may remain attached and visible.
- Therefore removal of ticks already on the dog at the time of application is recommended.
- Effective control of new brown dog tick infestations is achieved by 48 hours following collar application.
Dosage and Administration:
- One collar treats a dog over 17.6lbs (8kgs).
- One collar per animal to be fastened around the neck.
- Remove collar from protective pouch immediately before use.
- Unroll collar and detach plastic connectors remaining on the inside edge of the collar (these can cause mechanical irritation if not removed).
- Adjust the collar around the animal’s neck without over-tightening (as a guide, it should be possible to insert 2 fingers between the collar and the neck).
- Pull collar through the loop and cut off any excess length extending beyond 2 cm.
Important:
- Once collar is unrolled make sure that there are no plastic connectors remaining on the inside edge of the collar.
- The collar should be worn continuously for the full protection period.
- Check periodically and adjust fit if necessary, especially when puppies are rapidly growing.
General Directions:
- The polymer matrix system ensures that both active ingredients are slowly and continuously released in low concentrations from the collar towards the animal.
- This ensures that acaricidal/insecticidal concentrations of both actives are present in the dog’s haircoat during the entire efficacy period.
- The active substances spread from the site of direct contact over the entire skin surface.
- The modes of action do not require systemic absorption of active ingredients into the dog, so efficacy is achieved without requiring fleas or ticks to bite and ingest a blood meal.
- This collar is designed with a safety-closure mechanism. In the unlikely event of a dog being trapped, the dog’s own strength is sufficient to widen the collar to allow for quick release.
- Shampooing or frequent exposure to water (e.g. swimming, bathing, rain) may reduce the efficacy against fleas.
- Shampooing or frequent exposure to water has been shown not to reduce efficacy against brown dog tick.
- Use a soap-free shampoo.
- The effect of shampooing or exposure to water on efficacy against paralysis tick, bush tick or lice has not been established.
Paralysis tick:
- The Paralysis tick (Ixodes holocyclus) is a potentially deadly parasite and difficult to control.
- While Seresto flea and tick collars control paralysis ticks for 4 months, the risk of tick paralysis cannot be entirely eliminated as it takes only one adult female tick to cause tick paralysis/poisoning.
- Therefore, daily searching for and removal of any ticks found is recommended.
Seresto is a trademark of Elanco.