Worming - SafeGuard Panacur 10% solution
Worming, Panacur 10% Soluti
Panacur Small Animal 10% Oral Suspension Data Sheet (Safe-Guard 10% Goat Wormer, available at Tractor Supply and other feed stores)
Presentation A white oral suspension of fenbendazole as a ready to administer oral anthelmintic for domestic dogs, cats, puppies and kittens. 1ml contains 100mg active ingredient fenbendazole.
Uses A broad spectrum anthelmintic for the treatment of domestic dogs and cats infected with immature and mature stages of nematodes of the gastro-intestinal and respiratory tracts. Adult dogs and cats: For the treatment of adult dogs and cats infected with gastro-intestinal nematodes and cestodes: Ascarid spp. (Toxocara canis, Toxocara cati and Toxascaris leonina)Ancylostoma spp.Trichuris spp.Uncinaria spp.Taenia spp.Puppies and kittens: For the treatment of puppies and kittens infected with gastro-intestinal nematodes and puppies infected with protozoa (Giardia spp.).Pregnant dogs: For the treatment of pregnant dogs to reduce prenatal infections with Toxocara canis and the transfer of T. canis and Ancylostoma caninum to the pups via the milk.Other: Also for the treatment of dogs infected with lungworm Oslerus (Filaroides) osleri or protozoa Giardia spp. and cats infected with lungworm Aelurostrongylus abstrusus. Also has an ovicidal effect on nematode eggs.
Dosage and administration Routine treatment of adult cats and dogs:1ml per 1kg bodyweight as a single oral dose.(= 100mg fenbendazole/kg bodyweight).Practical dosage recommendations:
2 to 4kg 4ml
4 to 8kg 8ml
8 to 16kg 16ml
16 to 24kg 24ml
24 to 32kg 32ml
32 to 64kg 64ml
For dogs weighing over 64kg an extra 1ml is required for each additional 1kg bodyweight.The dose should be mixed with feed, or administered orally directly after feeding.Treatment should be repeated when natural re-infestation with parasitic worms occurs. Routine treatment of adult animals with minimal exposure to infection is advisable 2 to 4 times per year. More frequent treatment at 6 to 8 weekly intervals is advisable for dogs in kennels. Puppies and kittens under six months of age: 0.5ml per kg bodyweight daily for 3 consecutive days given by mouth after feeding to unweaned animals or mixed with food for weaned animals.(= 50mg fenbendazole/kg bodyweight daily for 3 days).
Practical dosage recommendations:
Up to 1kg 0.5ml daily for 3 days
1 to 2kg 1ml daily for 3 days (2-4.5lbs) 2 to 4kg 2ml daily for 3 days (4.5lbs-8.75lbs) 4 to 6kg 3ml daily for 3 days (8.75lbs-13.bs) 6 to 8kg 4ml daily for 3 days (13lbs-17.5lbs) 8 to 10kg 5ml daily for 3 days (17.5lbs-22lbs)
For puppies weighing over 10kg, an extra 0.5ml is required daily for each additional kg bodyweight.Puppies should be treated at 6 weeks of age and again before leaving the breeders premises. Treatment may also be required at 8 and 12 weeks of age. Thereafter, frequency of treatment can be reduced unless the pups remain in kennels where re-infestation occurs more readily.
Pregnant dogs:
1ml per 4kg bodyweight daily from day 50 of pregnancy continuously to 2 days post-whelping (approximately 15 days). (= 25mg fenbendazole/kg bodyweight daily).
Practical dosage recommendations:
4kg 1ml daily
8kg 2ml daily
12kg 3 ml daily
20kg 5ml daily
40kg 10ml daily
Safeguard can be given safely for up to 25 days consectutivily if needed
Bitches
Parasites get active in late pregnancy when females are heavy pregnant and stressed. This is the time when moms can least resist parasites. Babies are born with sterile guts and moms seed their guts with good bacteria to assist with digestion. However, she can also seed them with parasites. Rounds, hooks, whips, coccidia, and giardia can all be given to the puppy in the nursing period. As the parasites take in the mother's nutrition, they'll also take in the dewormer - meaning we can kill them effectively. Mom may be the source of these parasites, but the parasites can be controlled. Fenbendazole is labeled for pregnant moms. It not only gets the worms, but it also kills giardia. By cleaning up the mother in late pregnancy, you can also solve the parasite issues for your puppies later!- After 50 days gestation, deworm 3 days with Safeguard® or Panacur® C to remove as many parasites from mom before birth as possible.
Treat vs Prevention:Cocci Guard™ is added at 2 cups per 40 lbs of puppy food. Feed the last two weeks of pregnancy. This will decrease the number of coccidia transferred to babies. Decoquinate works by preventing coccidia from reproducing so they die of attrition (old age). Cocci-Guard™ is safe for pregnant dogs! Cocci-Guard™ is continued after weaning in the puppy.
CocciGuard is an easy way to prevent coccidia - simply add it to your puppy's food. The mother should also be fed puppy food with Cocci Guard when you bring her to the whelping area two weeks before birth. This decreases the number of coccidia the mother can give to the puppies. When you wean the puppies onto Cocci Guard, it controls the issue until you move them to their new home.You can’t get rid of them so learn to manage them…
Intestinal parasites have been around since dinosaurs and are not going away – you need
to manage them. Parasites do not want to kill your kitten or puppy; they want to use them as
a dinner plate. They do not mind dragging pets down, causing rough hair coats, or anemia!
Managing your parasites is not about deworming more or with more products. It is about using
the correct dewormer at the right time to get the biggest effect for our time and money.
Upper GI:
It helps to know the parasites we are targeting. Rounds and hooks are in the small intestine and
adults are easy to get rid of as most dewormers are active in the small intestine.
• Roundworms are 18 inches long and look like spaghetti. If puppies or kittens are vomiting
parasites, it is roundworms. If you have a lot of roundworms, they can be seen in the stool.
Rounds are usually digested before they get through the intestinal track.
• Hookworms are tiny (½” long) and difficult to see without a microscope. They become a small cyst on the wall of the
intestine sitting in a protected scar tissue egg. They come out of the “scar tissue egg” when they detect pregnancy,
milking, or removal of adults from the gut tube.
• Both these parasites can migrate through tissue, especially the liver. They get back to the intestine by migrating to the lungs
where they are coughed up and swallowed. Once back in the intestine, they complete the life cycle and reproduce.
• Parasites can play a role in the 8 week old puppy cough! Migrating stages are resistant to dewormer when out of the intestinal
tube! Once you get rid of the adults in the intestine, the larvae can pop out of the tissue and set up in the intestine you just cleared.
• Both rounds and hooks can infect humans and must be managed out of our puppies and kittens before sending them
to a new home!
Lower GI:
Tapes and whipworms are in the large intestine. They are about 30 feet down from the mouth so getting dewormer to stay active
for that distance is difficult.
• Tapes are as different from other intestinal parasites as cats are from dogs! They mostly live on dog waste and can
cause colitis and irritation of the rectal area. Treatment with praziquantel will eliminate adults.
• Egg packets are passed and look like rice in the feces or on the rectal area. These eggs have to mature in an intermediate
host (fleas, mice, or birds) and once that host is eaten by the dog or cat they get tapeworms. If you prevent them from getting
the intermediate host, you stop tapeworms!
• Whipworms are killed by few dewormers. Preventing re-infection is the key with whipworms that are directly infective. They
will seed an exercise area down, mature, and another dog or cat will ingest them. Raised decks prevent the re-infections and
break the lifecycle. New additions to our cattery or kennel need to be cleared of whipworms to prevent introduction.
Other Problem Parasites:
Giardia and coccidia are active throughout the intestine, but considered a small intestinal parasite.
• Both coccidia and giardia are tiny and are diarrhea causing opportunists. Something starts the diarrhea and they keep it going.
• Coccidia control involves keeping the numbers so low in the kennel that you rarely need to treat and prevention drugs are
effective. Much the same is true of giardia. • We try and get rid of giardia, but it always seems to be around so