For what purpose is Alben used in veterinary medicine? Instructions for use and the indications of this drug are indicated below.
The form and composition of the veterinary drug
"Alben" tablets as an active ingredient contain 20% albendazole, as well as excipients. This tool is produced in the form of granules. They are packed in laminated bags of 500 or 1000 g. As for the tablets, this form of veterinary medicine is sold in polymer cans of 25 or 100 pieces.
Drug properties
Why use "Alben" in veterinary medicine? The instruction for use claims that this drug is a broad-spectrum anthelmintic. It is especially active against immature and sexually mature cestodes and nematodes, as well as sexually mature trematodes.
This tool exhibits ovocidal properties. It reduces helminth infection in pasture. The principle of action of this drug is a violation of microtubular function and carbohydrate metabolism of helminths. Ultimately, this leads to their killing, as well as the elimination of livestock from the body.
The drug "Alben" from worms is practically non-toxic for warm-blooded animals. In recommended dosages, this drug does not exhibit locally irritating, embryotoxic, teratogenic and sensitizing properties.
Indications for taking granules and tablets
When is Alben used in veterinary medicine? The instruction for use reports that the agent in question can be used to deworm goats, sheep and other cattle (cattle), as well as fur animals, horses, birds and pigs in the following diseases:
- pulmonary nematodoses (with dictyocaulosis, mullerosis, protostrongilosis, metastrongylesis, cystocauliasis, neostrongilosis);
- gastric and intestinal nematodes (at gemonhoze, ezofagostomoze, bunostomoze, nematodiroze, habertioze, ostertagiasis, kooperioze, trihostrongileze, strongyloidiasis, giostrongileze, ascariasis, parascaridosis, askaridioze, trihotsefaleze, geterakidoze, toksakaroze, hookworm, toksaskaridoze, untsinarioze);
- cestodoses (with moniesiosis, tizaniesiosis, avitellinosis);
- trematodoses (with fascioliasis, dicroceliosis).
Contraindications to taking tablets and granules
When is it forbidden to use the drug "Alben" in veterinary medicine? Instructions for use indicate contraindications such as:
- acute fascioliasis;
- time of a random period (for sheep in the first half of pregnancy, and to females of other animals in the first third);
- depleted animals and patients with infectious diseases;
- laying hens at the enterprises in the production of marketable eggs (due to the fact that the drug is excreted with the egg for four days).
Veterinary dosage
The dose of this drug depends on the type of animal and its disease.
- Cattle - the main dose is one tablet per 49 kg or 3.7 g of granules per 99 kg. With dicroceliosis, fascioliasis, winter ostertagiosis and paramphistomatosis - 4.9 g per 99 kg or one tablet per 34 kg.
- Goats and sheep - as the main dose of 2.4 g of granules per 99 kg or one tablet per 69 kg. With dicroceliosis, fascioliasis and protostrongyloidosis - 3.7 g per 99 kg or one tablet per 44 kg.
- Pigs - 4.9 g of granules per 99 kg or one tablet per 34 kg.
- Horses, mules and donkeys - 3.7 g of granules per 99 kg or one tablet per 49 kg.
- Poultry (in case of ascariasis, heterokiosis) - 0.45 g of granules per 9 kg (once a day, two days in a row) or one tablet per 34 kg (once a day for a day in a row).
- Fur animals (for toxocariasis, hookworm, toxascariasis, uncinariosis) - 2.45 g granules per 9 kg or one tablet per 6 kg.
It should also be noted that on sale you can find "Alben S" for cats and dogs. It is used once in a dosage of 1 tablet per 5 kg of animal weight. The drug is taken in the morning with a small amount of food (if necessary, administered forcefully).
Side effects in animals
What side effects should I know before giving the animal the drug in question? According to the instructions, with all the recommended dosages, no adverse reactions are observed.
Special recommendations for taking the drug
Slaughter of sheep, goats and cattle for meat products is allowed only two weeks after taking the drug "Alben". As for horses, poultry and pigs, their meat is permissible to eat 7 days after deworming.
It is impossible not to say that milk is allowed to be used for food purposes 4 days after taking the medicine to animals. In the event of a forced slaughter of previously established deadlines, the meat product must be given to carnivores or for the production of bone meal.
Reviews
According to most farmers, the drug in question quite easily and quickly eliminates the problem. Thanks to him, animals are effectively cured of worms and other parasites.