looking for Panacur dosage

[ChromaChameleons]

I have 5 new chams to deworm. One has already passed worms in its stool. I need a doseage for chameleons by weight. I have both paste and crystals but I need a dilution. Anyone have a prescription they can share?

thanks

 

[Laragail]

Maybe you could call a vet and ask them how much you should give.

as far as weighing goes- I use a digital scale that weighs in grams

 

[lele]

I have both paste and crystals but I need a dilution. Anyone have a prescription they can share?

thanks

Hi - I can't help you with crystals but this is what I was told when using the paste when dosing my bearded dragon. It depends on strength, mine is:25 gram Paste 10% (100mg/g)

Its recommended dose x converted weight
-------------------divide----------------------
concentration of the med
after you do the conversions.

1. Convert the weight of your reptile to kilograms, to convert grams to kilograms you divide by 1000 or you move the decimal 3 places to the left.

2.Next you need to know the concentration of the meds. If a concentration is in %. multiple the % by 10 to get the concentration in mg/ml. So in your case it is 100

3. Next you need to know dose. This is in terms of milligrams of medicine to be used per kilogram of body weight of the reptile

4. Then you multiply the dose times the weight of the reptile and divide by the concentration

You will have to weigh or measure out from the paste you have, depending on the weight of your reptile, you will not need very much though

Here is an example of a dragon that is 483 grams and the panacur you have at the concentration you have


Example 483 gram dragon that needs 25 mg/kg of panacur in 10% dose

recommended dose x converted weight............ 25 mg/kg x 0.483 kg
then divide concentration of the med 100 mg/ml ..........0.12075 ml

Round off to .12 ml

Also, Will Hayward recently had a thread about this and I think he was using crystals. Do a search for his name and panacur - I think it was in the past couple months.

Hope this helps!

lele

 

[ChromaChameleons]

thanks lele