Composition
Toltrazuril 50mg in 1ml of suspension.
Indications
Prevention of clinical signs of coccidiosis in neonatal piglets.
Contra-indictaions
None.
Special warnings for target species
It is recommended to treat all piglets in a litter.
Interaction with other medicinal products
None known. There is no interaction in combination with iron supplementation.
Dosage
Oral use. Individual animal treatment. Each piglet to be treated on day 3-5 of life with a single oral dose of 20 mg toltrazuril/kg body weight corresponding to 0.4 ml oral suspension per kg body weight.
Withdrawal period
Meat and offal: 77 days.
Pharmacodynamic properties
Toltrazuril is a triazinon derivative. It acts against coccidia of the genus Isospora. It is acting against all intracellular development stages of coccidia: merogony (asexual multiplication) and gamogony (sexual phase). All stages are destroyed, thus the mode of action is coccidiocidal.
Presentation
High density polyethylene bottle 250ml and 1000 ml.
Shelf life
Shelf-life of the veterinary medicinal product as packaged for sale: 2 years. Shelf-life after first opening the immediate packaging: 6 months.