Ivermectin – Profiverm (Sparmectin)

Description

A transparent solution of light yellow color.

Compound

1 ml of the medicine contains an active substance: Ivermectin – 10 mg.

Pharmacological properties

The active substance of the medicine is ivermectin and belongs to composites, which are produced by microorganisms of Streptomyces avermitilis group. The medicine has a pronounced activity against endo- and ectoparasites of animals and poultry. The mechanism of the medicine action on the parasite’s body is in the stimulation of the allocation of a neurotransmitter the gamma-aminobutyric acid inhibition (GABA). As a result, there is a blockade of impulse transfer between the interneurons and the motor excitatory neurons of the parietal abdominal trunk, which leads to its paralysis and death.

Application Cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits:  prevention and treatment of diseases, caused by gastrointestinal and pulmonary nematodes, subcutaneous, nasopharyngeal, gastric vessels (in the larvae phase), scabies, lice, hairworms.

Poultry:  prevention and treatment of nematodes and arachnostomozies.

Dosage

The medicine applies orally with water in doses: cattle, sheep, goats – 0,2 ml of the medicine on 10kg of animal’s body weight (0,2 mg of ivermectin on 1kg of  body weight) once;

pigs – 0,25 ml of the medicine on 10kg of animal’s body weight (0,25 mg of ivermectin on 1kg of  body weight) twice with an interval of 24 hours;

poultry – 0,04 ml of the medicine on 1kg of body weight or 1 ml of the medicine on 25kg of body weight (0,4 mg of ivermectin on 1kg of body weight) once. Against poultry’s arachnostomozies the medicine applies in the same dose twice with an interval of 24 hours.

rabbits – 1 ml of the medicine on 25kg of body weight. Determinate dose and divide for 5 parts, put it into half a daily rabbits’ need of water every day.

Contraindication

High individual sensibility to an active substance of the medicine. Don’t apply the medicine to ill, exhausted, dying animals, pregnant females less than 35 days before lactation, poultry during the period of carriage. Poultry stop using the medicine for 20 days before the egg period begins.

Warning Slaughter of animals for meat is allowed: goats – 14 days, sheep – 10 days, pig – 12 days, poultry – 8 days, rabbits – 12 days, after the last application of the medicine. The meat received before the prescribed date is utilized or fed to unproductive animals.  It depends on the veterinarian’s conclusion. Don’t apply the medicine for 20 days to the poultry before the beginning of the carriage period.

Form of release

Polyethylene vials of 10, 50, 100ml, 1L, hermetically closed by the stopper.

Storage

Dry, dark, unreached for children place at the temperature from 5 °С to 25 °С.

Expiration date – 2 years from the manufacturing date.

For applying in veterinary medicine!