Product Description
Composition:
Each bolus contains Albendazole USP 600 mg.
Pharmacology:
Benzimidazoles bind to b-tubulin, which in turn prevents its dimerization with a-tubulin and the polymerization of tubulin oligomers into microtubules. Microtubules are essential structural units of many organelles and are necessary for numerous processes, including protein assembly, and energy metabolism. Mammals also rely on tubulin for cellular metabolism but BZDs have a higher affinity for nematode tubulin at normal body temperature range of mammals.
Indication:
It is used as anthelmintic against most nematodes and cestodes. Almex-Vet® is effective against these gastro-intestinal parasites: Bunostomum, Chabertia, Cooperia, Haemonchus, Nematodirus, Ostertagia, Strongyloides, Dictyocaulus viviparus, Moniezia expansa, Liver flukes and Paramphistomes. It is also effective against different types of worms, lung flukes and lung nematodes.
Dosage and Administration:
| Animals |
Type of worms |
Dose (mg/kg b.wt) |
| Cattle & Buffaloes |
Roundworms, Tapeworms, Lungworms |
7.5 |
| Liver Flukes |
10 |
| Sheep & Goats |
Roundworms, Tapeworms, Lungworms |
5 |
| Liver Flukes |
7.5 |
| Horses |
Roundworms, Pinworms |
7.5 |
| Lungworms |
25 (b.i.d.) for 5 days. |
| Dogs & Cats |
Roundworms, Whipworms, Hookworms,
Tapeworms, Lungworms, Bladderworms,
Liver flukes |
15 |
Side effect:
In several cases nausea, vomiting may occur.
Safety index:
Wide safety margin than any other group due to greater selective affinity for parasitic b-tubulin than for animal tissues.
Withdrawal period:
Meat: 8-14 days, Milk: 3-5 days
Package quantity:
5X4’s blisters in a box.
