As you know, all cats love to take care of themselves: lick their silky wool, and enjoy hunting for various rodents, flies and bugs. But, unfortunately, these two habits are the most common methods of infection of cats helminths, in common parlance - worms. There are other ways of infection, for example: a cat ate raw meat, fish, swallowed a fly, and both are carriers of parasites .
Treatment of helminthiasis is carried out with the help of various anthelmintic preparations. They are available in the form of tablets, suspensions, sugar cubes, pastes, drops on the withers. If you do not have special recommendations from your veterinarian, then you should choose a broad-spectrum drug (against all types of worms ).
Milbemax - description of the preparation
Mulbemax anthelmintic for cats is an effective anthelminthic agent, manufactured by Novartis Animal Health. It contains a substance such as - milbemycin oxime, as well as other auxiliary components. Externally is an elongated form of a tablet with bevelled edges, on the one hand there is a transverse notch. For kittens and young cats, these are tablets with "VS" and "NA" prints; they are covered with a beige or pinkish coating. For adult cats - tablets with prints "KK" and "NA", they are covered with a red shell. MILBEMAX tablets are a broad-spectrum preparation, therefore it is prescribed for treatment as well as for the prevention of the following diseases: echinococcosis, teniosis, dipilidiosis, hookworm disease, toxocarosis.
Instructions for use Milbemax for cats
How correctly to give Milbemakes to a cat:
The drug is applied to cats once during feeding in a fragmented form with a small amount of feed or forcedly injected onto the root of the tongue after feeding. Preliminary hunger and the use of laxatives before the fight with worms is not required.
Antihistamine should not be given separately from food, since digestive tract disorders are possible. Also, it is recommended to take the drug in the morning, as the reception in the evening can provoke insomnia in case of a bad reaction to this agent from worms. The most optimal time for taking the drug is in the morning, after eating.
Negative effects after taking milbemax in the form of tokton or vomiting, as well as diarrhea and constipation, are rare and are possible only if the drug is overdosed or intolerant. If a cat has a tremor - do not worry, these symptoms disappear by themselves throughout the day.
Contraindications
The drug has a number of contraindications: it is forbidden to give it to animals at the beginning of pregnancy, sick, weakened, cats, in which the work of the liver and kidneys is disrupted.
Dosage of Milbemax preparation for kittens and cats by weight in the treatment of helminths
| Weight of cat, kg | Dosage |
|---|---|
| 0.5 - 1 | ½ tablets of pink color (a preparation for kittens) |
| 12 | 1 tablet of pink color (a preparation for kittens) |
| 2 - 4 | ½ tablets of red color |
| 4 - 8 | 1 tablet of red color |
| 8 - 12 | 1½ tablets of red color |
How often to give Milbemax to cats:
- Prophylactic deworming Milbemax is recommended to be performed - once a quarter, at such doses as indicated in the table.
- When vaccinating a cat, take the drug 14 days before the vaccination.
Advantages
- active ingredient is milbemycin oxime (effective at all stages of development of round helminths);
- applied once (does not require repeated administration of the drug after 10-14 days, because it acts at all stages of development of helminths);
- You can use kittens at the age of 6 weeks, as well as pregnant cats;
- tablets have a taste of meat, so cats eat them alone;
- small size of the tablet;
- dense shell of the tablet - does not cause hypersalivation (drooling).
Tablets from worms Milbemax belongs to the group of moderately dangerous compounds with respect to animals. It is well tolerated by cats of different ages and breeds. Milbemax is toxic to fish and other aquatic organisms.
If it seems to you that the remedy did not help, contact your doctor before giving milbemax again. The drug does not need to be given again after 10 days, it is prolonged and acts on helminths at any stage of development.
Milbemax analogues
Also, veterinarians recommend a combination of two active substances moxidectin and praziquantel, for example, helmimax. Due to its combined composition it is safe not only for adult animals, but also for puppies and kittens, as well as for small breeds. In this case, it is effective against thirteen species of helminths and does not lead to the emergence of resistance in parasites.