Re: Ivermectin/heartworms

["C.M.Newell" <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>]

At 10:47 AM 2/9/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Shannon,
>
>There *is* a protocol for using ivermectin to kill adult heartworms.  It is
>much less toxic to the dog than arsenic, but all the other hazards remain
>the same, ie a dead worm will embolize to the lungs and if you kill too
>many or don't keep the dog quiet; the dog can get just as dead from
>pulmonary emboli as from heartworms and it is a more sudden death.
>


  Nope. Ivermectin  is ineffective as an adulticide. It *is* used at a
higher dose during treatment of infected dogs to kill an intermediate
stage, but it does not get the mature parasite.
             --CMNewell, DVM