Just Confirming Panacur Dose please

[Zen Reptiles]

One of my chameleons has a small load of pinworms according to a friend of mine who is in pre-vet who did a fecal for me.

Went to the vet, they didn't seem to know much about dosing. They said to ask the pharmacist.......

Pharmacist gave me a dropper with the Panacur mixed with chicken puree, and said to administer 0.3 ML, for three consecutive days, and again for 3 days in two weeks.

How does this sound? It's a male panther chameleon who is 60grams. Another I have that is his age is just over 100grams, so he's quite underweight because of the worms.

Thanks for any advice.

-Brock

 

[jannb]

0.1 cc per 100 grams of body weight (directions on the bottle from my vet)

 

[ataraxia]

depends on which panacur you bought. panacur 20, 50 or 100. if you bought panacur 100 match .1ml /cc to 100g of chameleon weight. so in your instance .06 and .1 on the other cham using panacur 100.

 

[Zen Reptiles]

Panacur Granule Singles.

222mg/g

222mg fenbendazole/g Panacur Granules
22.2% w/w

So I take it that's the 20%?

 

[ataraxia]

i believe so. you are using a packaged dog dewormer?

ive never personally used granules.

 

[Zen Reptiles]

Thank you.

Yes it's for dogs lol, it's all I could find in my whole city.

So if it was 100% Panacur, then it's 1cc/100grams of body weight?
But since this is 20%, it needs to be X by 5 to get to 100%? So .30cc/100grams of body weight?

Also, is 3 days in a row okay? I've read a lot of contradictory information. Some people only do it once day, once a week, for three weeks.

 

[ataraxia]

try a store that carries stuff for farming. most of them carry panacur 100 liquid/paste. much easier to dose.

 

[Zach Valois]

Just out of curiosity, is this animal wild caught? How long have you had him, and have you observed any noticable symptoms?

Let us know how he does.

Thanks