((( THE MYTH OF ZIMECTERIN GOLD )))

[Officially Retired]

So many dogmen come to me asking me about Zimecterin Gold ... thinking that it gets "every kind of worm" ... and they are WRONG!

Zimecterin Gold does not work for all worms, nor is it dosed in the appropriate ratios to work for even the worms it does get in dogs. Zimecterin Gold contains 1.55% ivermectin and 7.75% praziquantel. Ivermectin is typically dosed at 1% and praziquantel is typically dosed in 34mg tablets per 10 lb of dog. This means, you're going to have to give 5 ml of Zimecterin Gold to get 10 lb of dog treated for tapes, or 25 ml of ivermectin to get a 50 lb dog treated for tapes, which means you'll be overdosing the bejesus out of your dog on the Ivermectin. Or, to get the correct dosage of Ivermectin, you will be under-dosing the heck out of the praziquantel. Either way, your fogging up, which means you're going to be wasting your time and money. Worse, Zimecterin Gold is prohibitively expensive, considering you can buy both of its main ingredients (praziquantel and ivermectin) a lot cheaper, separately, and then dose them CORRECTLY, as explained in great detail in The Pit Bull Bible.

Ivermectin is typically dosed at 50mg/kg, yet it must be double-dosed to affect whipworm, and it must be quadruple-dosed to get even a 91% kill rate against roundworm. Studies have even shown that even these doses of ivermectin might not be effective in some areas where worm resistance exists.

Again, praziquantel is dosed at 34 mg/10 lb, and only gets tapeworm, and there are cheaper ways to get it than Zimectrin Gold, again as relayed in The Pit Bull Bible.

The bottom line is this: if you are buying Zimecterin Gold and using it on your dogs, you are a fool who doesn't know what you're doing.

Learn the proper drugs to use for each kind of worm, buy the appropriate drugs separately to treat each kind, and then get your dogs on a rotational worming schedule

Jack

[FrostyPaws]

While researching ivermectin for another post elsewhere, I came across this very interesting study:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10488732

[Officially Retired]

Interesting. 300 mcg/kg is 6x the usual dosage of 50 mg/kg.

Here is another study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6897345