My dog started having seizures after being treated with Advantage 2

[MarineWife47201]

My 10 year old Boston Terrier Gracie started having what I think are seizures about 3 weeks ago. They seem to only come at times of excitement or at least I have never seen one just happen at random. They started the day after I used advantage 2 on all 5 of my Bostons. When I contacted the makers of Advantage 2 they said there is no way it could have been their product. I have stopped using the dental water aditive and changed food in case of a food allergy. I took her to the vet and they observed her all day and could not get her to have one of the attacks. I am terrified she is going to die or have some kind of permenant brain damage. Any clues or suggestions?

[chainsawmaggie601]

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[netster53]

Can you please let us know the the brand of air freshner you sprayed that caused this reaction to your poor dog?

[daisy900]

Sorry to hear about your poor dog i too am in a similar position. i got my jack russell in  april 2008in september she developed a skin  condition and started atopica( cyclosporin)2009 i took up a carpet in my  hall after locking a stray tom cat in to my house(he sprayed all over my carpets) my dog collapsed and appeared to have been poisoned. my vet gave her cpr  iv steroids and fluids over night and 12 hours later was completly normal.

2 weeks later i picked up an airfreshner sprayed it once and my dog collapsed again. when i rang the company i explained that my dog had ingested the product and was told that i should take my dog to the vet straight away as there was very high levels of formaldhyde in the product.  the product was labeled for use around animals and fish.

the company agreed to divulge the ingredients 60% formaldhyde which caused permanent damage to my dogs brain she takes 60mg's of pheoinobarbitoine daily and does even now have some minor seizure activity.

So i wish you the best of luck and hope that your dog will be ok.

[Margot49]

Sorry to hear about your Boston and sorry to say I don't have time to do any researching on this.  I will say that I used Advantage, when needed, on my dogs and cats and never had any problems.  However, my neighbor bought and used the Advantix (?) at PetsMart on his dog one year and within a few hours she was showing neurological signs.  I suppose it is possible.  How is she acting now?  Of course she wouldn't have a seizure while at the Vet's office.  :-(   Did they suggest any blood work to do?
Hope she is doing better.

[Ghilly]

What type of behavior did she exhibit during the episodes?  Did she seem to be aware of her surroundings or was she kind of zoned out and not aware of what was going on around her?  Was she vocalizing at all?  Was she paddling with her feet?

Ghilly