Available only from a veterinarian or by veterinary prescription from a licensed pharmacy or supplier.

Equimax

Broad-spectrum oral gel to control gastrointestinal worms, skin worms, lung worms, tapeworms and hornets.

Target species

Horse.

Active substances

Ivermectin 18.7 mg/g

Praziquantel 1403, mg/g

Indication

For the treatment of mixed infections caused by adult and immature gastrointestinal worms, skin worms, lung worms, tapeworms and hornets in horses:

• Large strongylids: Strongylus vulgaris (adult and L4 larval stages), edentatus (adult and L4 larval stages), S. equinus (adult) and Triodontophorus spp (adult).
• Small strongylids: Cyathostomum , Cylicocycle spp.., Cylicostephanus spp.., Cylicodontophorus spp.., Gyalocephalus spp. (adult and mucosal stages, not in hypobiosis).
• Ascarids: Parascaris equorum (adult and immature stages).
• Oxyuren: Oxyuris equi (immature stages).
• Trichostrongylidae: Trichostrongylus axei (adult).
• Strongyloididae: Strongyloides westeri (adult).
• Stomach worms: Habronema (adult).
• Skin worms: Onchocerca (microfilariae).
• Lungworms: Dictyocaulus arnfieldi (adult and immature stages).
• Tapeworms: Anoplocephala perfoliata, magna, Paraplocephala mamillana.
• Hornets: Gasterophilus (immature stages).

Since tapeworm infections are unlikely in foals younger than 2 months, treatment of foals younger than 2 months is not considered necessary.

Can be safely administered to mares throughout pregnancy and lactation.

Contraindications

Do not use in foals under 2 weeks of age. Do not use in mares producing milk for human consumption. Do not use in horses with a known hypersensitivity to any of the (active) ingredients.

Dosage

Single administration of 200 µg ivermectin and 1.5 mg praziquantel per kg body weight, equivalent to 1.07 g gel per 100 kg body weight.

To administer the correct dose, the body weight should be determined as accurately as possible; check the accuracy of the dosing device, as underdosing can lead to an increased risk of resistance development to anthelmintics.

The first weight bar on the piston rod dispenses enough gel to treat 100 kg of body weight. Each subsequent weight bar doses enough gel to treat 50 kg of additional body weight. The dosing syringe should be set to the calculated dosage by sliding the dosing ring up along the piston rod to the desired mark and then locking it in place.

The dispensing syringe containing 7.49 g of paste contains enough paste to treat 700 kg of body weight at the recommended dosage.

Special warnings

Read the package insert before use.

Waiting period

Meat: 35 days.

Do not use in mares producing milk for human consumption.

Content

Dispensing syringe containing 7.49 g of paste.

REG EN 9950

For veterinary use only - URA