Product Description
These palatable liver-flavoured tablets make worming easy! Can be crumbled into food. Endogard for dogs effectively treats and controls roundworm, hookworm, whipworm and tapeworm including Hydatids.
Three pack sizes for dogs:
- For Puppies & Small Dogs - 1 tablet per 5kgs dog's weight (4pack)
- For Medium sized dogs - 1 tablet per 10kg dog's weight (4 pack)
- For Large dogs - 1 tablet per 20kgs dog's weight (3pack )
For Cats and Kittens--CLICK HERE
Prevention is better than cure. The importance of prevention in the control of intestinal worms in both dogs and cats should not be underestimated. Some worms that infect pets can pose a significant risk to human health, for example the hydatid tapeworm and roundworm. Worming pets regularly will help greatly in preventing these worms from causing problems in family members.
It is generally recommended that both dogs and cats are wormed regularly, every 3 months, for intestinal worms. Puppies and kittens require more frequent worming until they are 6 months old and the usual recommendation is that they are wormed every 2 weeks until 12 weeks of age and then every month until 6 months of age. Once 6 months old, 3 monthly worming should be adequate in most situations. Pregnant and nursing bitches and queens also require more frequent worming, to reduce the level of roundworm infection that they may pass onto their young, either through the placenta or their milk.
Worms are not always easy to detect in your pet. The only way to be sure is to sample the faeces repeatedly and analyse for the presence of eggs. However, some of the common signs that may suggest your pet has worms include: pale gums (anaemia); diarrhoea; a pot-bellied appearance (especially in puppies and kittens); weight loss (despite a good appetite); white segments in the faeces; scooting; or a dull coat. If you are not sure if your pet has worms, you should always consult your veterinarian. Your veterinarian will be able to advise you on how best to treat your pet.
The best way to prevent a worm problem is to commence an appropriate and regular worming regime right from the very start.
Preventative treatment
Preventative treatments are the best way to ensure that pets are protected from the risk of disease transmission. In addition, you will also reduce environmental contamination with infective eggs and larvae which pose a threat to the health of both pets and humans.
Guide for the Treatment and Prevention of Worms in Dogs
Worm buster tips Follow these simple tips to ensure your pet and home are protected against worm infestation…
- Ensure that your dog and cat’s bedding and sleeping areas are always clean (including the dog kennel).
- Remove faeces from your yard or garden.
- Ensure that fleas are controlled adequately on both cats and dogs.
- Never feed your pet raw meat or offal. Feed your dog only cooked meat or commercial food.
- Always wash your hands after playing with your pet and prevent pets from licking your face.
- Control intermediate hosts such as rats and mice.
2 to 12 weeks, Treat every two weeks
12 weeks to 6 months, Treat every month
From 6 months old, Treat every three months (every 6 weeks in Hydatid areas)
Product Information
MODE OF ACTION:
Oxibendazole acts on roundworms, whipworms and hookworms by inhibiting or destroying the cytoplasmic microtubules in the worm’s intestinal or absorptive cells. Inhibition of glucose uptake and depletion of glycogen stores follows, as do other inhibitory effects leading to the death of the worms within several days. The worms are then dislodged by peristalsis. Oxibendazole also has ovicidal properties.
Praziquantel damages the tegument of the tapeworm and also affects glucose uptake and lactose release in tapeworm metabolism. The tapeworms are destroyed in situ.
INDICATIONS:
For the treatment of roundworms: Toxascaris leonina, Toxocara canis, T. cati; hookworms: Ancylostoma caninum, Uncinaria stenocephala; whipworms: Trichuris vulpis; and tapeworms: Echinococcus granulosus (Hydatids), Taenia ovis, T. hydatigena, T. pisiformis, T. taeniaeformis, Dipylidium caninum; in dogs and cats.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO TREAT PETS FOR WORMS SO OFTEN?
ROUNDWORMS: Puppies are almost invariably born infested with roundworm larvae passed on from their mother during pregnancy. Kittens become infested with roundworms through their mother's milk. These infestations can produce active egg-laying worms in the intestines at 1-2 weeks of age.
Infestations of roundworms can cause weight loss, diarrhoea and potbellies. Severe damage to the lungs and liver may be caused by the migration of larvae through these organs.
Roundworm larvae may infest humans (especially children), resulting in the disease Visceral Larva Migrans. Larvae can migrate widely in the body to cause abscesses in the liver and other organs and granulomas (reactive nodules) in the eye, brain or nervous tissue. Cases of blindness and death have been reported.
HOOKWORMS: Hookworms occur in the intestines of dogs and puppies and may also cause weight loss and diarrhoea. As hookworms live by sucking blood, a severe infection can cause anaemia, weakness and even death in your pet.
Immature hookworms pass a stage where they are buried in the wall of the bowel and hibernate for variable periods of time. Larvae in this state are not susceptible to ANY treatment. They may then suddenly proceed to maturity where treatment with Endogard® will effectively remove them. This is why it is so important to treat your young pet every 2 weeks until they develop some immunity at 3-6 months - when they have some resistance to reinfestation and the damaging effects are reduced.
Regular treatment for this dangerous worm is vital, as re-infection can occur rapidly and very easily especially during warm humid times of the year.
WHIPWORMS: Whipworms commonly occur in the caecum and colon of dogs and may cause persistent foul smelling diarrhoea and loss of condition. The life cycle takes from 1 to 3 months to complete. The eggs are very robust and can survive in the surroundings for up to 16 months. Once contracted the whipworm is very difficult to control as reinfection from the eggs readily occurs. Repeat treatments are vital to break the reinfection cycle and obtain control from infected animals, and to keep uninfected animals worm free.
TAPEWORMS: Tapeworms Echinococcus granulosus (Hydatids), Taenia ovis, T. hydatigena, T. pisiformis, T. taeniaeformis, and Dipylidium caninum live in the small intestine of dogs and cats, and produce vast numbers of eggs which are passed in their faeces and then distributed widely. Typically the eggs infect and produce disease in a secondary host, which may be a human, or farm livestock. These diseases may manifest as ill thrift, with very occasional dramatic effects such as blindness or death. The tapeworms typically prevalent in N.Z are also of particular economic importance to the meat industry as their cysts render meat unacceptable for human consumption. As the important tapeworms have a prepatent period (the interval between infection of the dog and first release of infective eggs) of only 4 - 6 weeks, repeat treatments within this period are important where re-infection is likely.
DOSAGE & ADMINISTRATION:
SMALL DOGS AND CATS, PUPPIES AND KITTENS:
1 tablet / 5 kg body weight
NOTE: Use the small “5 kg body weight” tablet.
PUPPIES & KITTENS: Treat at 2, 4, 8 and 12 weeks of age.
