Hartz Ultra Guard flea spray for home

I believe I was sickened by this spray as well. I do not go to doctors, so I don’t have any medical bills related to this. Last Monday night we bathed both dogs and I sprayed the Hartz spray on carpeting and bedding. I also put a Hartz flea collar on the cat.
The animals are fine, but my husband complained of not feeling well, and I had uncontrollable shivers and diarrhea on Tuesday morning. This was followed by intense stomach cramps, sweats and diarrhea which continued until Thursday, when I took a homeopathic remedy which cleared it right up. I know diarrhea is the body’s way of cleaning toxins out, that’s why I didn’t take the treatment until Thursday.

It was the most awful week and I never want to go through that again. Shame on you, Hartz!

I’m so sorry to hear about your illnesses, but I’m hard-pressed to believe it was the Hartz products. I have always used Hartz spray for my cat and dogs, and I even rub it in to make sure it gets through their thick coat, and we (myself and my animals) have never had any adverse effects from using it. Sounds like a coincidence that you used the product and became ill. Unless you are allergic to something in it. And I am in no way affiliated with Hartz, so I am only saying this because I have used it for years with no problems.

Hello,

I found your site after our using Hartz UltraGuard on our dog and he is in the doggy hospital dying, they say he won’t make it through the night.

We used this product on him 3 days ago. He is a 5 year old strong, healthy lab and now will not make it through the night?!?!

He is going through renal failiure, his kidneys are failing, white blood cells through the roof, his blood pressure is dropping by the minute!

He is our best friend and was in great shape until we put this “medicine” on him!

I AM GOING TO SUE! Who can we contact to get the ball rolling on a class action lawsuit?!

I just bought Hartz spray for flea and ticks – I was hoping for an additional preventative plan because I take my dog to the dog park everyday and now Im finding fleas on him. He is on advantage multi so maybe the fleas are dieing at some point but I cant take the chance. How is this product still on the market if its caused all these issues???

The reason for most of these animal deaths is, in most of Hartz flea sprays one of the active ingredients is permethrin which is known to be deadly in cats and cause minor problems in dogs. If you decide to use flea spray make sure that it dosen’t contain any of this active ingredient. Be sure to read the labels and do your research before using any kind of flea sprays if you care about your animal.

To those of you that posted about becoming sick when using Hartz Ultra Guard Flea and Tick Home spray please send me a private email me at [email protected]. My whole family became sick after using this product and is still suffering health issues from it. My husband had a ministroke and my daughter and are having some neurological problems, our lovebird had a stroke type event . I would like to know how others are faring that posted about becoming sick after using this product . I do not work for Hartz and I am not a lawyer. I am a victim. These products have harmed our pets but in some posts and also from my recent experience they can harm people as well and I would like to share information with anyone else that has been harmed by this product.

my boy cat named 2 e elmore is very sick eating constant and then goes to the bathroom cant fill him up losing weight drastically after using hartz spray blue bottle for fleas has bee very hot under belly constant thirst my god lost more than half his weight i wanna sue i had him 8yrs never sick until spray me myself have stomache constant pains and my mom is in partial kidney failure please help to stop this product now gary

You folks know this product isn’t intended to be sprayed directly on animals, right? It’s for floors and furniture…

I use advantage on my cat because I have seen what the hartz can do but I used the hartz home flea spray under my couches and under the cushions on them and any time that I sit on them now I break out in a severe rash. I wish I had known about this, I have been trying for weeks now and can’t get the rash to go away 100% it seems to keep flaring up again over and over, it looks similar to a rash caused by poison ivy, “Thank-you Hartz for caring about your customers”

In a follow up to my comment last evening regarding our dogs seizures, she is currently partially paralyzed in both her rear legs, has been constantly moving her head back and forth, and had mild mini-seizures all day today. Although it seems like she is doing better (not seizing every hour), she is still not out of danger yet, and she still doesn’t seem to know where she is or who we are.
I wanted to make a couple of final comments, I’m very angry and feel something needs to be done about the Hartz products containing phenothrin.
First, I’ve noticed a couple of comments from others who have entered comments, and there were a few I think that were un-warranted. One was something to the effect that we really need to read the instructions carefully and be sure we gave the correct application amount and strength according to package instructions, ect.. I’m very sure we all did read the instructions,whether its for a cat or dog, the size and weight requirements and usage instructions of this product and have correctly applied the medication as indicated. It’s not that we gave incorrect applications or doses, and by this -these applications ended up harming our pets, the fact is this: the ingredient used to kill the fleas and ticks, is poison. It’s no more than a pesticide used to treat pests on fields, and while it may help control pests in a garden, I don’t understand why these companies could possibly think that these pesticides AREN’T harmful to humans or animals in the product’s they make to treat fleas and ticks?? Plants in a field aren’t anywhere near a human or animal who has skin and nuerological tissues that are absorbing these harmful chemicals!
And second, to the EPA and FDA who obviously get some sort of a kick back for ruling the pesticides used in these flea and tick treatments are not posing enough of a threat (according to the honest and valuable input they receive from the makers of the products, which I’m sure is 100% accurate- according to their records), to be pulled from the shelf at this current time… Well, I Guess MY pet doesn’t matter, its okay if she and all the others I’ve read about online have an actual reaction to the poison I put on her when I bought this product… We are considered the 1% (yeah whatever, I’m sure its a bit more than that) that had a reaction- therefore it doesn’t matter that the product is still out there being sold to the next sucker who will be deeply alarmed, scared and left grieving when they happen to be the next poison victims. Just how many times does this product get to pick and choose it’s next victim? Whats the limit?? And, as for human induced sicknesses and possible deaths, whats the magical number of humans it takes to get a bad drug removed from harms way? They don’t ever tell anyone that. So, Animals don’t deserve consideration, even though they may have real reactions, such as seizures, same as humans, and very much so also feel it like a human?? So isn’t it a form of animal cruelty when my dog or someones cat suffers and FEELS these reactions?? We only find out the so-called safe and approved meds or treatments are far more harmful then initially advertised- AFTER a flood of Attorney sponsored law suit commercials are aired during Jerry Springer- and of course by now, we have many suffering the side effects or several have even died from its use! REALLY?? I thought that was what these agencies did– assure the consumer by testing these products for actual stats on the number of potential side effects and deaths… before approved for sale to the consumer… not after the fact. So, what then- do the agencies do before allowing the sale? Preventing potential harm? hummmm.. You know– before its out there for the world to be using. Seems like these agencies used to have the best interest of the consumers in mind. Now you can have the product out there until there’s a certain criteria and percentage that can be documented by the makers of the meds… as being harmful. Who’s best interest do these agencies have on their minds? Not mine, or anyone else who right at this moment is purchasing this poison. So, I ask the EPA and FDA… whats the “magical numbers” and WHO is important enough in MY LIFE- to these agencies, to heed removal of these poisons for use by the public? Cause, I don’t know about everyone else out there reading this, but my pet and my family have MET THAT CRITERIA this weekend in my opinion. I want so badly to have these flea and tick removal products completely gone ASAP so others don’t have to go thru what we did this past couple of days! Enough is enough, MY PET DID MATTER! Now we don’t know if she’ll even live thru another night.

Hello, I have a question if anyone would be willing to help answer it for me. It is regarding the Flea and Tick Home Spray. My grandmother has very bad eye site and on accident bought the wrong flea spray for her cat. She was using the HOME SPRAY instead of the regular spray for animals on her cat. The bottle in fine print says DO NOT SPRAY ON ANIMALS. She feels terrible for the mistake.
The cat is now losing a lot of hair and I am afraid that he has probably digested the spray when giving himself a bath. I was wondering if there is anything we can do or buy in order to make him better? If anyone would perhaps know of a ointment, medicine, or has heard of this happening before I would grately appreciate the information. The cat is eating and drinking just fine and he is just as active as always. However, he did lose a lot of hair and has some opened wounds. My granny is short on cash and I know she cannot afford to take him to a vet. Thanks for reading this and if you know of anything that could help us I would be so thankful!

Vacum vacum vacum over and over everywhere daily. Wash and dry all bedding, make a solution of alcohol with vinegar in a spray bottle for pets and all furniture, rugs and floors. Bath pets with dishsoap daily until all fleas are gone for sure. It takes a huge effort to get flea population under control naturally.