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Re: Learned something about deworming
The Oct issue of Horse & Rider magazine has an article on tape worms.
It is recommended to use a double dose of Strongid Paste wormer for tape
worm eradication or use the daily wormer, Strongid C.
Dee
EAMULE@aol.com wrote:
>
> This may be common knowledge to some, but I learned something from my vet.
>
> I bought a 16 y.o, very malnourished, pregnant mare with foal by her side the
> first of July. (She soon aborted.) I had immediately dewormed her with
> Ivermectin and again subsequent weeks later. I took a fecal sample to be
> checked to see if my deworming was doing any good.
>
> No active parasites were found, but my vet strongly suggested that I give the
> mare 2 tubes a day of fenbendazole (Panacur or Safe-Guard) for 5 consecutive
> days. I inwardly raised my eyebrows.
>
> He explained that small strongyles will lodge in the colin and are
> undetectable, except by biopsy. Ivermectin will not take care of these. (I
> have since read that Ivermectin is not good at getting these small
> strongyles.) This 5 day fenbendazole program will get 100%. A 7 day
> program of Ivermectin will supposedly get maybe 75%.
>
> Dande, the mare, received her last two tubes this past Sunday. By Wednesday
> night the change in her was incredible. She has been gaining steadily ever
> since I bought her and starting to look like a fairly healthy horse, but
> proportionately speaking in the 3 days after this deworming program she has
> blossomed. It could be that everything she has received in the previous 3
> months came together, but I believe this program really put the icing in the
> cake.
>
> Of course, if one reads the instructions on the box containing anything the
> contents of the box usually work better. :) I had never read the fine print
> instructions on a box of dewormer containing fenbendazole. It recommends the
> same thing as my vet.
>
> Everyone I have told this to had never heard of such strong dosing and were
> surprised and a little concerned. (Nobody else reads the fine print either!)
> Vet said that fenbendazole is not toxic until 25 times its recommended dose.
>
> I wonder how many small strongyles are lurking in my 23 y.o. mare who has been
> regularly dewormed all her life.
>
> Ellen and Dande who made it known she doesn't like to be paste wormed!
> Memphis
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