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Post by Corvidophile on Jul 24, 2015 15:19:50 GMT -5
Ok, I'll discontinue it unless I see him scratching. Should I do a heartworm test before restarting? In the future/should anything happen, do you guys feel selamectin is a better drug? And what's the safest mode of giving either?
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Post by katt on Jul 24, 2015 16:04:10 GMT -5
Sorry but I have to disagree. If you are taking your ferret outside and live in an area that has heartworm your ferret really should be on heartworm prevention meds. Heartworm is almost 100% fatal in ferrets and all it takes is ONE worm. Kitten Revolution is what all of the vets I have worked with use for ferrets. To my understanding it is less toxic than Ivermectin
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2015 16:28:41 GMT -5
Heartworm prevention is a different kettle of fish altogether to putting insecticides into the ears unnecessarily. Sorry if I wasn't clear in what I meant xx
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Post by Corvidophile on Jul 24, 2015 21:30:50 GMT -5
Er, I'm a little confused by your view- heartworm meds ARE insecticides, and the ear is skin for it to be easily absorbed through, to clarify I wasn't putting droplets into his ear canal, I was painting it all over the pinnae and the opening of the canal.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2015 2:47:03 GMT -5
You know what? You're right, I don't know enough about this. It seemed like a very extreme thing to do, to swab his ears with a pourable ivermectin monthly, when there are back-of-the-neck and oral preventatives available. We don't have a heartworm problem here in the UK, so it's slightly different. I've never had to worry about it. Maybe I'm just ignorant to the plights of preventing heartworm, so I should back out of this conversation and allow others who know about heartworm to comment. My apologies (Edit: honestly this still seems extreme to me... I do apologise because as I said I don't know enough about preventing heartworm to know if it is or not but it just seems dangerous. If anyone else knows better and recommends doing this please comment with reasons, but I just feel like it's better not to put ivermectin onto his ears and find another way to prevent heartworm. I hope this doesn't sound like an attack. I'm just trying to prompt responses from people who know better about how to safely treat heartworm as to whether this is necessary xx)
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Post by katt on Jul 25, 2015 14:42:48 GMT -5
I would still go with Revolution over Ivermectin personally. Ivermectin is pretty harsh stuff, Revolution is safer. Most vets I know won't use Ivermectin on ferrets, just Revolution.
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