Ivermectin Safety?

[wildoak]

My order from Jeffers came this afternoon while I was gone, and my two almost a year old Pyrenees shredded the box and about 5 tubes of generic Ivermectin. Only one tube was completely chewed to pieces, the others just slightly mangled. I called my small animal vet who said oh bad, tremors & seizures - induce them to vomit! I don't know what time the package came but it was well chewed and scattered to the winds when we got home an hour ago, and the dogs are bounding around looking absolutely fine. Is my vet just being cautionary or should I still be concerned, any of you vet techs or anyone with this experience? They are respectively about 80 and 100 lb dogs who tend to chew their way through any and everything in their path right now!

Jan

 

[stormy]

Vet is not kidding, not something you want to overdose in dogs, cats or young horses.

 

[gimp]

INDUCE VOMITTING! It may be too late already; I'd take them in

 

[Riverrose28]

I may be too late to wiegh in, call your vet ASAP! I am only hopeing that the dogs weigh too much to have been affected, but ivermectine and dogs don't mix well at all. Please contact your vet.

 

[wildoak]

Good news is that we found the missing tube. The mangled ones were not chewed through, just lots of deep tooth marks and some caps off so I'm hoping they ingested very little. I induced vomiting per my vet (10 cc hydrogen peroxide, who knew). The smaller guy lost his lunch (along with pieces of plastic) immediately, but the other has never vomited. My vet is closed, just came in and will give the ER vet a call but at this point both still look fine.

Thanks for the quick responses.

Jan

Added....given the size of the dogs and the small amount they ingested, the ER vet was not overly concerned, and they tend to be concerned about everything ordinarily. She of course said to monitor them for neurological signs, but that they would most likely be okay. She also said they do not normally recommend hydrogen peroxide as it causes GI upset (well it would if you are inducing vomiting lol). So right now things look okay. Will monitor them through the night though.

 

[Allure Ranch]

My order from Jeffers came this afternoon while I was gone, and my two almost a year old Pyrenees shredded the box and about 5 tubes of generic Ivermectin. Only one tube was completely chewed to pieces, the others just slightly mangled. I called my small animal vet who said oh bad, tremors & seizures - induce them to vomit! I don't know what time the package came but it was well chewed and scattered to the winds when we got home an hour ago, and the dogs are bounding around looking absolutely fine. Is my vet just being cautionary or should I still be concerned, any of you vet techs or anyone with this experience? They are respectively about 80 and 100 lb dogs who tend to chew their way through any and everything in their path right now!

Jan

No Jan he's not..... We had an incident a few years back. It's toxic for the dogs you need to get them to the vet immediately. It will literally kill them..... Please keep us posted.

 

[gimp]

I'm glad they are doing OK. I keep a bottle of fresh hydrogen peroxide around for the very task of upsetting my dogs' gi tract. It works quite well. I syringe it in until I get results, which usually doesn't take much. (I had a chocolate syrup incident almost a year ago that was quickly resolved.) Finding that tube that was missing is a gigantic relief.

 

[Magic]

I thought that ivermectin was only bad for collies and that type of dog, but could be used for deworming other dogs? I've never used it for dogs but I could swear I'd read that more than once. Or am I thinking of another type of dewormer?

 

[shorthorsemom]

http://www.ehow.com/...icity-dogs.html

Activated charcoal administered can help. Your vet can also do bloodwork to monitor the affect of the overdose. Dog heartworm medication can be ivermectin and can be given to breeds that are not ivermectin sensitive. (collies etc). The problem with horse wormer ivermectin is that it is much more concentrated and easier to get a lethal or dangerous toxic dose. Best wishes. I would air on the side of very cautious and get your dogs to the emergency room. Much easier and cheaper to treat up front and not wait to see. I hope your dogs are ok.

another scary posting...

http://forum.horsetopia.com/dogs/68822-fyi-ivermectin-dogs.html

emergency situation with dogs that were given ivermectin for horses.

 

[Riverrose28]

Is there an update on the dogs? Are they Ok? Just worrieing and wondering

 

[Magic]

Thanks for the info and that link, Shorthorsemom. One of the posters there said that she had given her small dog (JRT I think?) and four barn cats just a tiny, itty bit of Ivermectin when she had dewormed her horses and all the barn cats died, and the dog went blind and had muscle tremors. I had no idea that Ivermectin is so lethal to dogs and cats. Usually when I deworm the horses I have the dewormer tubes sitting out where the dogs and cats could reach them, but now I know to keep them well out of reach. Scary!

Jan, how are your dogs doing? Hoping for the best!