Everyone who has cats in the house takes care of the health of their pets. When the kittens grow up, the question arises about the implementation of preventive measures for deworming. There are several antihelminthic drugs. One of them is Tselal. The manufacturer of Cestal for cats is the Hungarian company Ceva PHYLAXIA Biologikals, as well as the French company Ceva Sante Animale. Both firms produce a drug called Cestal Cat or Cestal Ket - Cestal for cats.
Instructions for use
Each tablet of Cestal contains 20 mg of praziquantel and 230 mg of pyrantel pamoate or pyrantel embonate. Tablets of Tsetal are round in shape, light yellow in color, with a separating groove in the middle. Weight of a tablet with auxiliary substances 350 mg. The tablets are packed in cardboard boxes. In the box there are blisters. Each blister contains 2 or 1 tablet, depending on the manufacturer. Only 10 tablets in a package. On the box you can read the name of the product, its purpose, expiration date, company manufacturer, serial number. The drug Cstal for cats instead of the instructions for use has a temporary instruction on the use of the drug. The temperature of cestal storage for cats is from 5 to 20 ° C. Shelf life 2 years.
Cystal for cats is a combined preparation. Praziquantel, which is contained in the drug, removes from the body of cats flat worm cestodes, and pyrantel - round worm nematodes. Praziquantel is quickly and completely absorbed into the intestines of the cat, accumulating in most of the animal's organs. It is excreted from the body with urine. Pirantel is absorbed in the body in part, accumulates, and then is excreted with feces.
The cystal for cats is a low-toxic preparation. If you follow the dosage suggested by the manufacturer, no side effects after taking the drug are observed, as it is well tolerated by animals.
The use of Cestal is recommended for such helminthic invasions as toxocarosis, toxascaridosis, uncinoria, ankylostomatosis, dipilidiosis, diphyloportrotosis. One tablet of Cestal is designed for 4 kg of body weight of a cat. The drug is given before the nodulation of your pet. The cystalum must be crushed, then added to the feed to produce a mixture that the cat should completely eat. The preparation can also be mixed with water to form a suspension. If the cat does not want to eat food, which is added to Kestal, she needs to give it forcibly, putting the pill on the root of the tongue.
Cystal for cats can not be given with piperazine, since piperazine like pyrantel belongs to the drugs that are used for infection with nematodes. If you saw that the cat has parasites , it is given to Cestal with a therapeutic purpose twice with an interval of 14 days. After treatment it is desirable to confirm laboratory absence of parasites. With the preventive purpose of Kestal Kat they give the animal once. The drug is treated once a quarter.
How to give a cat to the cystal, you can read in a temporary manual on the use of the drug.
It is necessary to treat cats with Cestal before vaccination of animals, as well as before knitting in about ten days. If the cat is not treated, a miscarriage is possible in the future. If for some reason the mother of the cat was not treated with the drug, then the kittens are given the drug only after three weeks.