Post by cbdtherapydogs on Oct 27, 2013 21:29:55 GMT -5
Hey guys, speaking from working at a vet clinic for seven years :
Round worms and hook worms are something that you can expect to take weeks or months to truely get rid of. Sorry to inform you. Why? Well, they reproduce by the THOUSANDS. The eggs can also stay UNHATCHED in your pet's body for up to seven years. Yeah, scary. It takes something traumatic to the system for round worms to hatch - the extra adrenalyn is a trigger. Females whelping a litter, a sudden body slam to the ground while playing at the dog park, someting that stressed them highly for what ever reason, all of which releases the hormones that trigger the dang worms to hatch. Then they can live forever in the ground. Thankfully y'all have this thing called SNOW, and really cold winters. Frozen ground does help kill the eggs and larvae during the winter time, though stepping in a fresh pile doesn't help.
Panacur - the drug being FENBENDAZOLE - is a favorite of tracks and vets for various reasons. Fenbendazole 22mg is highly effective against rounds, hooks, whips, tapeworms from foods (NOT from fleas!!), pinworms, and a mirade of other parasites. You can give it safely every single day, and overdose by mistake usually just results in upset tummies rather than seizures and death like an overdose of say, ivomec, would.
The CORRECT procedure for using panacur (aka Fenbendazole) is to use it once per day for three days, then repeat it once per day for three days in three weeks. If needed, repeat again in three more weeks. Why? It takes 3 weeks for eggs to hatch and the larvae to get out of their "invincible" stage where dewormers can't harm them. This is a great dewormer, though I personally use oxfenbendazole (a close cousin) on my guys. A 1 liter bottle will last my personal kennel of 15 hounds for several years.
Pyrantel Payomate (spelling?) is another choice. Kills pinworms in humans, but does the trick for rounds and hooks. I don't use it because it doesn't kill as many types of worms as fenbendazole does. It also needs to be used on a schedule of once a day for three days then repeat in three weeks.
Oh - rounds and hooks are transmittable to humans. I know you wanted to know that...
DE, food grade, does help. I don't knock it one bit. It helped get rid of a flea infestation outbreak I had at my house this past spring (the result of the former owners of this house who didn't take good care of the house). However, sometimes even the natural stuff needs a bit of help.
My two cents would be to use the DE mixed in canned food *AND* give the dewormer once per day for three days, repeat in three weeks, and again in three weeks.
If this were one of my hounds, they would get a dose of Ivomec. A few days later, I'd give the three day round of oxfenbendazole. Then repeat it again the next month. My guys already get Ivomec and Oxfenbendazole as heartworm and intestinal worm prevention, it would just be a matter of giving the oxfenbendazole the additional two more days to those who are infested.
Round worms and hook worms are something that you can expect to take weeks or months to truely get rid of. Sorry to inform you. Why? Well, they reproduce by the THOUSANDS. The eggs can also stay UNHATCHED in your pet's body for up to seven years. Yeah, scary. It takes something traumatic to the system for round worms to hatch - the extra adrenalyn is a trigger. Females whelping a litter, a sudden body slam to the ground while playing at the dog park, someting that stressed them highly for what ever reason, all of which releases the hormones that trigger the dang worms to hatch. Then they can live forever in the ground. Thankfully y'all have this thing called SNOW, and really cold winters. Frozen ground does help kill the eggs and larvae during the winter time, though stepping in a fresh pile doesn't help.
Panacur - the drug being FENBENDAZOLE - is a favorite of tracks and vets for various reasons. Fenbendazole 22mg is highly effective against rounds, hooks, whips, tapeworms from foods (NOT from fleas!!), pinworms, and a mirade of other parasites. You can give it safely every single day, and overdose by mistake usually just results in upset tummies rather than seizures and death like an overdose of say, ivomec, would.
The CORRECT procedure for using panacur (aka Fenbendazole) is to use it once per day for three days, then repeat it once per day for three days in three weeks. If needed, repeat again in three more weeks. Why? It takes 3 weeks for eggs to hatch and the larvae to get out of their "invincible" stage where dewormers can't harm them. This is a great dewormer, though I personally use oxfenbendazole (a close cousin) on my guys. A 1 liter bottle will last my personal kennel of 15 hounds for several years.
Pyrantel Payomate (spelling?) is another choice. Kills pinworms in humans, but does the trick for rounds and hooks. I don't use it because it doesn't kill as many types of worms as fenbendazole does. It also needs to be used on a schedule of once a day for three days then repeat in three weeks.
Oh - rounds and hooks are transmittable to humans. I know you wanted to know that...
DE, food grade, does help. I don't knock it one bit. It helped get rid of a flea infestation outbreak I had at my house this past spring (the result of the former owners of this house who didn't take good care of the house). However, sometimes even the natural stuff needs a bit of help.
My two cents would be to use the DE mixed in canned food *AND* give the dewormer once per day for three days, repeat in three weeks, and again in three weeks.
If this were one of my hounds, they would get a dose of Ivomec. A few days later, I'd give the three day round of oxfenbendazole. Then repeat it again the next month. My guys already get Ivomec and Oxfenbendazole as heartworm and intestinal worm prevention, it would just be a matter of giving the oxfenbendazole the additional two more days to those who are infested.