treatment for heartworms
Heartworm Treatment. Treatment of heartworm disease refers to dogs that have heartworm infections or heartworm disease. These dogs may be asymptomatic (testing positive for heartworms but not sick) or they may actually be suffering from the disease resulting the heartworms.here are two protocols that can be used for treating heartworm-infected dogs with melarsomine. 1  The first protocol is reserved for dogs that are relatively healthy and not showing significant signs of heartworm disease. 2  In this protocol, two injections of melarsomine are administered 24 hours apart.