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Treatments Currently Used

Listed by active ingredients

ivermectin

  • Kills large redworms, small redworms, pinworms, large roundworms, lungworms, intestinal threadworms, large mouth stomach worms, stomach hairworms and neck threadworms
  • Dosing interval 8-10 weeks
  • Single dose in May and another single dose in July
  • Single dose in December
  • Also highly effectively against bots
  • E.g. EQVALAN®

praziquantel

  • Used to kill tapeworms in dogs, cats and even humans for years
  • No known resistance in the UK

ivermectin + praziquantel

  • Kills large redworms, small redworms, pinworms, large roundworms, lungworms, intestinal threadworms, large mouth stomach worms, stomach hairworms and neck threadworms and tapeworms
  • Single dose in Spring and Autumn (March / April and September / October) for roundworms and tapeworms
  • E.g. EQVALAN® Duo
moxidectin
  • Single dose in Winter to treat encysted small redworms
  • Dosing interval for small redworm 13 weeks

pyrantel

  • Dosing interval for strongyles every 4-6 weeks during Summer and Autumn at pasture, every 4 weeks for foals from 1 to 8 months of age

fenbendazole

  • Widespread resistance in small redworms
  • Five-day course can be used against inhibited mucosal stages of small redworms
  • Dosing interval for strongyles 6-8 weeks (if no benzimidazole resistance)