Lol
?? I canât get it at any of my local feed stores and when I looked online it was unavailable??
If you live in a more conservative, anti-vax area, itâs probably harder to find ivermectin. It can be hard to find anywhere, though.
It would be a nice side effect of this mess if the worms lost some of their resistance while ivermectin is hard to find.
/shudder
Iâve used both normal Quest and Quest Plus on my mare (actually dewormed her two weeks ago). Sheâs never had a reaction to either.
Wait, seriously? Still? Wow. I think they have it at the local store here. Weâre a very conservative county as well, but maybe they all got their fill already.
Still. We have everything but dewormers with Ivermectin.
That is freaking sad. I heard that some stores were keeping it behind the counter to slow down demand. Someone comes in that they recognize and asks for it, well, they can get it. Some tourist walks inâŠnope, weâre all out.
Coverage of âoff-labelâ use of ivermectin for Covid was a joke - itâs for horses with worms, hahaha. End of discussion. I donât recall hearing anything about the dosage of ivermectin paste for horses vs pills for human beings. It sounded like they were interchangeable. If ivermectin is FDA approved for people whatâs wrong with using 2 bucks worth of horse medicine from the feed store. I think we are going to see too many horses (and other species) who will not be dewormed at all. $25 for a tube, one tube, plus shipping? One site says âas low as $7.99.â There will be people who canât afford it and others who refuse to pay that much.
As I recall the history, look back a few decades: deworming horses was done by vets pouring a liquid medication into a horse through a tube into the stomach. There werenât many medications available and resistance became a problem. When I started hanging out in the horse world 25 years ago ivermectin was a miracle cure and resistance wasnât going to be a problem. I expect that was the impetus for giving every horse a tube of ivermectin every other month.
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Yep. Back a million years ago, I would deworm my horses in sync with their being reshod, so the horses were dewormed about every 6 weeks. Now I donât deworm unless the fecal egg count indicates I should. Is it better? Probably, so Iâll stick with it.
And I guess the days of $1.99 per tube of generic Ivermectin are gone. >sigh<
ivermectin is an approved treatment for several human issues. And interestingly enough, the dosage is the same.
The paste formulation isnât approved for human use. That doesnât mean itâs harmful. But also, people are stupid and some will, and have, squirted a whole tube into their mouths
Too many donât get dewormed now. But I bet people will just buy the cheapest they can find, which is usually a pyrantel pamoate or fenbendazole, which is useless anyway most of the time, but heck, they do that now, just by whatever is cheapest, which may or may not be plain ivermectin
Thatâs because the only drug available was too caustic to give orally, so had to be deposited directly into the stomach. Resistance wasnât an issue back then.
Every parasitologist knew and said that resistance would eventually be a problem. It canât NOT be a problem, as thatâs what parasites do. It was only a question of how long it would take.
The big impetus was getting control of the major parasite problems facing horses at the time, which was mostly small strongyles. The information that was available then indicated that we had to work harder to keep load low, and since ivermectin was good for about 8 weeks, that gave rise to the every other month deal.
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