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Panacur help please
- Thread starter Snowy
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Jack's-Jane
Wise Old Thumper
There is no definative information. Even Exotic Specialist Vets have differeing views !!
I have been advised by one Exotics Vet to treat a symptomatic Rabbit for 6weeks and an asymptoaic one for 9 days. There is absolutely no funding available for more research at the moment and if the Proffesionals cant agree on a protocol what chance have we got !!
So for me it will remain a 9 day precautionary treatment and a 6 week treatment in a symptomatic Rabbit. Usually the Protozoa has already been passed out of the body once symptoms occur. Treatment is to try to reduce the amount of spores remaining. It is the spores that cause problems as they migrate to various parts of the body ie the CNS, the Kidneys and the Lenses of the eyes. Currently it is not thought that all spores will be removed with Fenbendazole, but the numbers will be reduced and hopefully the Buns own immune system wil keep things under control. But then again an article in The Veterinary Record in 2001 apparently stated that Fenbendazole does clear all the spores.......
Janex
Snowy
Wise Old Thumper
It would appear that 28 days is no better than 9 days then if it doesn't do the trick
I think what confuses me is why 9 days, 28 days or 42 days when most bunnies carry EC but just don't show it, surely it takes the same amount of time to expel from the body whether there are signs or not?
