I just ordered Ivermectin injectable for the first time, from Amazon, the 500ml bottle for $80, which is the lowest I’ve seen in a long time. Brand is Noromectin (made in the UK). I noticed the latest reviews from this year said the expiration date is anywhere from “less than a year” to 2 years. Mine arrived, and it has 7 months (you pays your money and you takes your chances). So, the first thing I want to know is will it “actually” be good for more than that length of time? Because this is an awful lot of Ivermectin.
I mainly got it because of the comments I saw on the last thread (or was it the one before?) as well as reviews I’ve read about it being good for getting rid of fleas, which has been an ongoing problem for my indoor cats. (The fleas live among us somewhere, though I’ve never figured it out, as our floors are all tiled or laminate and the upholstery on our furniture is velvety and gets vacuumed.) My question is how to dose them for this. I’m guessing somewhere close to 1/8 teaspoon for each cat, based on scaling down what I’ve read for people by weight, from what I’ve read. Orally, of course. Does that sound good? But is it one time only, or is/are followup(s) required, and if so, when? Last thing I’d used for fleas was something recommended and sold by my vet, but which I don’t want to give them again because I should have read all the Chewy reviews about it giving people’s cats seizures. Luckily mine are okay, but I figured Ivermectin is much safer, and believe it or not, this whole bottle was way cheaper than that stuff was.
Anyone’s experienced input is much appreciated.
My understanding with pharmaceuticals is that humans create laws to require they have an expiration date, but most of them only degrade a bit and don’t actually have a “completely useless” date. They may be only 90% effective. I have an aspirin bottle with an expiration date of 2016 and they still work to relieve body aches. After our covid experience, I now believe that big pharma is likely the one who lobbied for expiration dates so we’d throw out perfectly safe and effective (unlike their vaccines) products and buy them again.
though people and dogs can take ivermectin without consequences, cats are more fragile
my veterinarian is very hesitant to give cats ivermectin
I used to have great results with Frontline for my cat
btw
I have been taking injectable Ivermectin for almost 20 years
Drugs last a long time, much longer than the expiry date.
I wouldn’t give my cats Ivermectin unless my vet had done so first, but that’s me. Go to Petshed and get some Revolution for cats. Petshed ships from Australia so no script needed. Revolution didn’t give seizures did it??
I did give some sort of generic flea stuff years ago and it made my cats sick and twitch within a few minutes... so I bathed it off them.
I just stick to a topical for my cats. My lab gets Bravecto, but my black mix dog gets topical since I don’t know what he’s mixed with. If a topical bothers the cats, then you can bathe it off them.
HTH