Worm Schedule for Pregnant Dogs

[Doodlesville]

Worm Schedule for Pregnant Dogs

that my vet wrote up for me
Strategic deworming of the dam in late pregnancy into the post-partum period can prevent neonatal infections. Fenbendazole in the preferred drug and is usually started at day 40 of gestation and continued until 14 days post partum.
50 mg/kg
Q 24 hr PO


Treatment/Management/Prevention:
1) Pyrantel pamoate: 5-10 mg/kg PO. This is safe for pregnant bitches and nursing young.
2) Fenbendazole: 50 mg/kg PO q 24h x 3 days. Safe for pregnant bitches and nursing young.
3) Praziquantel: Don't use in dogs or cats less than 4 weeks old.
4) Praziquantel, pyrantel pamoate (Drontal): Don't use in animals less than 4 weeks of age or less than 1.5 pounds.
5) Praziquantel, pyrantel pamoate, fenbantel (Drontal Plus): Don't use in pregnant bitches, dogs less than 3 weeks of age or less than 2 pounds.
Panacur is very safe in pregnant bitches. You can dose initially, then in 2-3 weeks to get the larval stages (the usual 3 days of treatment each time).

Fenbendazole is quite safe in a pregnant bitch. Realize that unless you give it daily from day 40 through 3 weeks lactation, the pups will still acquire rounds and hooks from dam via placenta/milk and need deworming with pyrantel starting at 2 weeks of age.

Prevention of Perinatal Transmission
It is also possible to treat bitches in order to prevent transplacental and transmammary transmission of somatic T. canis and A. caninum larvae to the puppies. Four regimens that have been recommended for this include (1.) daily doses of fenbendazole at 50 mg/kg body weight from the 40th day of gestation to the 14th day of lactation; (2.) for T. canis, treatment with ivermectin (1 mg/kg) on days 20 and 42 of gestation, or with 0.5 mg/kg on days 38, 41, 44, and 47; (3.) for A. caninum, two treatments with ivermectin (500 µg/kg), one 4–9 days before whelping and one 10 days later; and (4.) weekly doses of ivermectin (200 µg/kg) from 3 weeks before to 3 weeks after whelping. These regimens have been shown to reduce T. canis and A. caninum infections in puppies by as much as 98–100%. Recent studies found that topical selamectin (6 mg/kg) applied to pregnant bitches or queens 6 weeks and 2 weeks before parturition and 2 weeks and 6 weeks after parturition significantly reduced T. canis and T. cati worm burdens in the puppies (98%) and kittens (100%) up to 6 and 7 weeks of age, respectively. In addition, significant reductions in egg shedding were seen in the bitches (99.7% on day 45) and queens (100% on day 49).

NOTE I disreguard the Ivermectin ,,but that is just me