Giardia

mommyof4boys

How common is it to need more than one treatment?  Looks like we're on treatment number 2 for the kittens.

hillysuze

My dog needed 2 treatments despite our best efforts to keep her from reinfecting herself. The second dose did the trick tho as it was a stronger medicine. Not sure if that helps you with your kittens but its not unheard of.

jump*tunnel*climb*weave

It's fairly common. The parisite is very hearty outside the body. Animals are often reinfected my the encapsulated form that's been shed. 

mommyof4boys

Stupid question but we should dump the litter and put new in right?  I did that as soon as the cats started their meds last time.  What else can I do?  From what I read it is common for cats or dogs when there were a lot of them together.  They came from a home of 9 cats.  The lady didn't spay her cat and let her out to which she had multiple litters.

fancypants999

It took forever to get rid of it with our dog (also a rescue - she had it when we adopted her). I can't remember how many treatments we did.  I want to say 4?  We were exclusively walking her and picking up after her so I am pretty sure she wasn't reinfecting herself, she just had a bad case.  I was so happy when we got a negative test for it.  It can just be a bugger to get rid of.  GL

jump*tunnel*climb*weave

Yes dump the litter very often. That's how they reinfect is from cysts shed when they poop.