Agh internal parasites

Alright.. I found that I have more questions.

I was looking online and found these generic brand wormers. They have pyrantel, praziquantel, and oxantel. Do you think these would be good? They're certainly cheaper. http://www.petshed.com/products/category440.asp I e-mailed them to ask how many mg is in each pill so I know how many I'd need.

Second - will these wormers harm my gravid female cali king?

And finally.. I'm trying to find a place to get syringes online. I found a lot that have removable needles.. are those ok if I just take the needle off, or do I need oral syringes? The oral ones seem to only want to come in boxes of 100.. and I need several sizes so that quickly becomes expensive too.. argh. Insulin syringes are ok? See, I found several here http://www.1800petmeds.com/all.asp?LV=93 but they all say 'for use with this or that specific insulin'. It's all very confusing.. it shouldn't be!

I guess I should just go to the pharmacy, but I don't trust them to have what I need. *sigh*

here's the amounts of the various wormers in those pills I asked about. They're a lot bigger than the other pills. Would these be ok to use?

http://services.apvma.gov.au/Pubcris...ts&pcode=57878

I know this thread is a little over a month old, but I was thinking about preventatively treating all my animals for worms. Shelby, I was wondering how this ended up for you, what product you ended up using? Did you end up getting the generic pills?

Also, I've had to inject Kinky for an RI, but I've never had to stick a syringe in their mouths. I was wondering if there was a good way to go about doing this---ways of holding them, etc.

I just want to keep my guys healthy. Any opinions, suggestions, are welcomed.

Hi, yeah I ended up getting the generic pills. I have seen no sign of parasites since.

For the most part they hated having the syringes in their mouth. I just grasp them firmly behind the head, and take the tip of the syringe (of course no needle) and press it against their lower jaw in the front to pry it open. Stick it down as far as possible and squirt the stuff in. Most of them drank it down immediately.

The generic pills had both ingredients that you needed, right? So you only had to have those single pills, grind them up, and mix them with water (I know I'll have to get weights and measurements)?

Also, since these pills were larger, did you mix them with more water, or still with 1 cc?

Yes.. I dosed it according to the praziquantel amount in the pill. As Becky said, prazi is dosed 8mg per kg of body weight.

I mixed it with 1CC still, though you can calculate it for more dilution if you wish.

Awesome. Thanks for the help April!

No problem. If you run into any snags, I can probably help.

Do you remember the amount of Prazi in a single pill? I figured out how much I need, but I don't know how many pills I'll need.

There is 50mg per pill.

The formula is:

body weight in KG x 8mg of prazi = total mg

total mg divided by 50 mg in a pill = fraction of pill or cc needed for dose. if it's .5 you can give half of a pill, or you can mix a whole pill with 1cc of water and draw up .5cc.