MaineDogs wrote:Your dogs could have had worms before and after using zirmection gold has less of a problem but your not even close to taking care of the issue. One of the biggest problems with people trying to make up there own worming schedule or flea and tick schedule is they f*ck it all up by either over dosing and shortening the dogs life or worse killing them. Or the person under doses and allows the issue to get worse because they have used too little product to kill the problem and the problem adjust to the drug and is no longer weffected by it.
Listen to john (thelittleblackbook) he obviously knows what hes talking about, when a vet will recommend johns book to you, it must have some good correct info.
good luck worming them dogs.
Good post, and thank you.
Zimecterin Gold contains 1.55%
ivermectin and 7.75%
praziquantel.
Ivermectin is typically a 1% solution and
praziquantel typically comes in 34mg tablets, which are given per 10 lb of dog.
This means, you're going to have to give 5 ml of Zimecterin Gold just to get 10 lb of dog treated for tapes, which means you'll be overdosing the bejesus out of your dog on the
ivermectin. Or, if you're trying to get the correct dosage of Ivermectin, you will be under-dosing the heck out of the
praziquantel. Either way, your fogging up, which means you're going to be wasting your time and money.
Worse, Zimecterin Gold is prohibitively expensive, considering you can buy both of its main ingredients (
praziquantel and
ivermectin) a lot cheaper, separately, and then dose each one CORRECTLY, as explained in great detail in
The Little Black Book.
Further, trying to use
ivermectin for "everything" is problematic, seeing as its typical dose of 50 mcg/kg gets hookworm in dogs, yet it must be
double-dosed to affect whipworm, and it must be
quadruple-dosed to get even a 91% kill rate against roundworm. Studies have even shown that even these doses of
ivermectin might not be effective in some areas where worm resistance exists. So using a better choice for roundworm is a better route, saving the
ivermectin for heartworm.
The bottom line is this: if you are buying Zimecterin Gold and using it on your dogs, you don't know what you're doing.
It is
far better to learn the proper drugs to use for each kind of worm, buy the appropriate drugs
separately to treat each kind, save money in the process, and then get your dogs on a rotational worming schedule
Jack
.