Alvet

Prior to using Alvet, no special diet or laxative is required. The drug is administered orally, by mixing with feed, on an individual basis or by a group method, once to cattle, sheep, horses.

The weight of Alvet per teaspoon/tablespoon:

• 1 flat tsp. = 3.5 g of Alvet

• 1 flat tbsp. = 10 g of Alvet

To cattle, Alvet is administered individually at the following doses:

• monieziasis, pulmonary, and gastro-intestinal nematodosis: 3.75 g per 100 kg of animal body weight (i. e. 7.5 mg/kg of albendazole)

• chronic fascioliasis: 5.0 g per 100 kg of animal body weight (10.0 mg/kg of albendazole); To sheep, the drug is administered individually or by a group method at the following doses:

• monieziasis, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal nematodosis: 2.5 g per 100 kg of animal body weight (5.0 mg/kg of albendazole)

• chronic fascioliasis: 3.75 g per 100 kg of animal body weight (7.5 mg/kg of albendazole). 

When applying Alvet by a group method to 150 sheep at most, it is thoroughly mixed with the compound feed (at the rate of 50 to 100 g of feed per animal). The mixture is put in the feeder with a free access of animals to it.

To horses, Alvet is administered to treat parascaridosis, strongyloidiasis, alfortiosis, delafondiosis, anopletsefaleosis, and cyatostomosis individually at a dose of 3.75 g per 100 kg of animal body weight (7.5 mg/kg of albendazole).

To pigs, the drug is administered to treat ascariasis and oesophagostomosis by a group method with concentrated feed in the morning feeding session at a dose of 5.0 g per 100 kg of animal body weight (10.0 mg/kg of albendazole).

Calculated for a group of 50 pigs at most, the drug dose is mixed with half of the feed and put in the feeders with a free access of animals to it.

To poultry, the drug is administered to treat ascariasis and heterakidosis two days in a row, in a group, mixed with the compound feed in the morning feeding session at a dose of 0.5 g per 10 kg of poultry weight (10.0 mg/kg of albendazole).

 ATTENTION

Prior to mass deworming, each veterinary drug batch should be tested in a small group of animals (10 to 15 animals). In case of no complications observed within 3 days, the veterinary drug is administered to the whole livestock.

CONTRAINDICATIONS

Avoid administering Alvet to incalvers and horses in the first third of gestation; to pregnant sheep - in the first half of gestation. If medically required, Alvet can be administered to young animals under control of a veterinarian following prescribed doses.

After deworming, animals can be slaughtered no earlier than 20 days after the last administration of Alvet. If the animals must be slaughtered earlier, their meat can be used to feed fur-bearing animals.

The milk, obtained from diary animals, is forbidden for human consumption within 4 days after deworming. Taken before the established deadlines, the milk can be used to feed animals after boiling.

SHELF LIFE

3 years from the date of manufacture; after first opening - 60 days.