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> I just got an ad online about a wormer for tapeworm. Do you know anything
> about this - contraindications or anythhing?
> San
The drug agent is praziquantel, which has been around forever for treating
dogs and cats and such.  A fair amount of the research of tapes in horses
was done here at CSU, with the conclusion that they still don't cause nearly
the damage that other parasites do, but may contribute to incidence of colic
when "something else" goes wrong.  Sort of a straw that broke the camel's
back type scenario.

Praziquantel has been used for a long time in horses as well, it just wasn't
very cost effective given what was thought to be very minimal risk.  I'm not
sure tapes are worth losing sleep over now, so not sure if it's still all
that cost effective (I don't know what the new dewormer combos cost is).  I
do a panacur purge once or twice a year and call it good.  I might do
praziquantel once a year for my own guys, but don't count on it.  I'd be a
lot more likely to do it in young horses.  JMO.

Susan G, DVM



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