TICKVET

Tickvet is a natural veterinary product to repel bloodsucking insects, especially fleas and ticks. This veterinary product is a completely animal- and environmentally friendly product. It contains only selected essential oils. Apply directly to the skin between the shoulder blades or to the root of the tail so that the animal cannot lick the application site.

Tickvet has been developed specifically for the capacity of essential oils to repel insects, especially fleas and ticks. Why use repellent flea and tick products for dogs?

The repellent effect is now very important, and yet many flea and tick products do not have it. Neither tablets nor collars have repellent effects on ticks and fleas, only some of the spot-ons.

What does repellent mean? This means that it will repel fleas, and especially ticks, so much that they do not bite the animal.

“According to new studies, the transmission times of certain pathogens spread by ticks are known to be signifi cantly lower than anticipated.”
MVDr. Miroslava Můčková Uzlová, a veterinary doctor

In Tickvet, we used the effects and power of essential oils. Essential oils have other benefits than repelling insects. For example, they can improve skin and coat quality, have anti-inflammatory effects and many more. In addition, they affect the psyche, which in many cases is invaluable. If essential oils are purely natural, mixed in the right proportions and applied in the recommended way, they do not burden the animal metabolism in the way that synthetically produced preparations do.

Essential oils are mixtures of substances that occur naturally in plants, in virtually all their parts. They are most often obtained by distillation of plants. Distillation produces essential (flower) water, or hydrolate, on the surface of which the essential oil floats. This oil is a highly concentrated mixture of various substances that have a variety of uses. Their effects can be antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, painkilling and many others. Either single-species essential oils or mixtures thereof can be used.

There are many uses, from external (ointments, compresses, sprays, etc.) to internal (inhalation, swallowing). The most commonly recommended method of using essential oils in animals is diffusing, i.e. dispersing droplets of essential oil into the air using diffusers, and preferably using diffusers that release essential oils using water vapour.

In order to use their effects, we should at least familiarise ourselves with the basic rules of use. For application of essential oils to animals, it is also necessary to know the differences between species (e.g. never drip essential oil mixed with a carrier oil on feathers in birds, in cats it is necessary to know which essential oils are toxic for the cat, etc.).

Recommended dosage is:

Dogs: 1 drop 1–2 times a day for 3–5 days, then 2–3 times a week.
Warning: Avoid being licked by the animal! Do not use around the eye area! Do not apply to open wounds! Do not use on young animals nor on pregnant or lactating females.

“Especially for cats, but also for other animals, and after all for yourself, do not use cheap alternatives to essential oils and hydrolates.”
MVDr. Miroslava Můčková Uzlová, a veterinary doctor

The main pathogens transmitted by European tick species include:

Boreliaburgdorferi (Lyme disease, within 24 h, Hynote et al. 2012)
Anaplasmaplatys
Phagocytophilum (within 24 h)
Babesiacanis (within 8 h, Varloud et al. 2018)
Babesiavogeli
Ehrlichiacanis (within 3 h, Fourie et al. 2013)