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Mebadown Super Oral Suspension:  Uses
 
 
Mebadown Super Oral Suspension
Uses
For the control of fascioliasis (due to Fasciola hepatica - mature and immature) and gastrointestinal nematodes and cestodes in sheep and lambs.
Mebadown Super is active against benzimidazole susceptible strains of lungworm, roundworms, tapeworms (heads and segments):
Gastro-intestinal roundworms: Ostertagia spp., Trichostrongylus spp., Nematodirus spp., Cooperia spp., Oesophagostomum spp., Chabertia ovina, Bunostomum spp., Trichuris ovis, Stronglyloides papillosus.
Lungworm: Dictyocaulus filaria
Tapeworm: Moniezia spp.
For the control of the larval stages of Oestrus ovis (Sheep nasal bot fly).
For the control of inhibited, immature and adult stages of Haemonchus contortus (Barber Pole worm) including benzimidazole-resistant strains.
Fluke activity
Stage
% Kill
Adults
97–100%
6–8 weeks immature
91–95%
5 weeks immature
91%
3–4 weeks immature
23–73%
Ticks: Ixodes ricinus feeding on sheep at the time of treatment are likely to produce fewer viable eggs.
           
 
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  Date updated: 15 October 2010