Complaint
Levamisole 20% Water Soluble Powder
For Veterinary Use Only
COMPOSITION
Contains per g:
Levamisole HCl 200 mg
DESCRIPTION
Levamisole is a synthetic broad-spectrum anthelmintic, which is active against adult and larval stages of gastrointestinal nematodes and lungworms in cattle, sheep and pigs. After oral or parenteral administration, levamisole paralyses the worms. Afterwards the worms are expelled in the faeces (within 24 hours after parenteral administration). Levamisole 20% Water Soluble Powder may be given to pregnant animals and to animals in poor condition.
INDICATIONS
Levamisole 20% Water Soluble Powder is indicated for prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of lung and gastrointestinal worms in cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry.
Cattle, sheep: Cooperia, Dictyocaulus, Bunostomum, Chabertia, Nematodirus, Haemonchus, Ostertagia, Protostrongylus and Trichostrongylus spp.
Pigs: Hyostrongylus rubidus, Ascaris suum, Metastrongylus elongatus, Oesophagostomum spp. and Trichuris suis.
Poultry: Ascaridia and Capillaria spp.
CONTRA-INDICATION
Do not administer to animals with an impaired liver function.
Do not administer to animals producing milk for human consumption.
Do not administer to birds producing eggs for human consumption.
SIDE-EFFECTS
Overdoses can cause cholinergic-type symptoms such as salivation, muscular tremors and head shaking.
INCOMPATIBILITY WITH OTHER DRUGS
Do not administer together with morantel, pyrantel and organo-phosphorus compounds.
DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION
For oral administration via feed or drinking water.
Cattle : 7.5 - 10 g per 200 kg bodyweight for 1 day.
Sheep : 400 mg per 10 kg bodyweight for 1 day.
Poultry, pigs : 100 g per 200 liters of drinking water for 1 day.
Mixed with feed, the product should be used immediately.
Medicated drinking water should be used within 24 hours.
WITHDRAWAL PERIOD
Meat : 10 days
STORAGE
Store in a dry and dark place between 8 °C and 25 °C.
Store in closed packing.
Keep medicine away from children.
PACKING
Sachet of 100 g (120 sachets per box).
Jar of 500 g (24 jars per box).
Jar of 1,000 g (12 jars per box).
