My 8-week puppy threw up a roundworm. How do I treat it and protect my family?

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So my dog threw up a worm it’s a 8 week year old puppy and I did some research and it’s a round worm. So what m wanting to know what I supposed to do to stop it and can it effect our house hold. Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed Small (up to 22lb) | Female | unspayed | 1 month and 28 days old

Daniel Fonza, DVM · Accepted Answer

Hi there and thank you for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach to address your concern. If you have other dogs in the house, they could potentially come in contact with the roundworm eggs in Journey's feces and get it that way. There is the potential for the roundworms to be passed to humans as well. Ensure you are properly cleaning your hands when handling feces or cleaning up feces from Journey. You can start a deworming medication such as Bayer Quad Dewormer, which can be purchased at Petco. I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns and I would be more than happy to help you further. If there is no resolution, I would recommend having a veterinarian examine Journey and test her feces to see if there are any other worms present that need to be treated.

My 8-week puppy threw up a roundworm. How do I treat it and protect my family?

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