Re: Learned something about deworming

[luv2ride@peop.tds.net]

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