Cocci-Drench 2.5 mg/ml Oral Suspension

None.

Special precautions for safe use in the target species:
For oral use only.
It is advocated to treat all lambs of the flock and all calves in a pen. This will contribute to
reduce the infection pressure and assure a better epidemiological control of the
coccidiosis infection.
Lambs
On rare occasions, in highly susceptible lambs e.g. where they have been housed for long
periods of time before being turned out onto heavily contaminated pasture, a severe scour
has been seen shortly after dosing. In such cases, fluid therapy is essential and the use of
a sulphonamide should be considered. It is also important to consider other potential
pathogens that may be playing a role e.g. Cryptosporidium, Nematodirus, Rotavirus,
GiardiaE. .
In the event of any stress factors (e.g. cold weather, other diseases) or high challenge
(e.g. warm wet weather, inability to move lambs from infected pastures after dosing) the
timing of the doses may need to be adjusted.
Calves
Clinical coccidiosis generally occurs late in the parasite’s life cycle after most of the
damage to the calf’s intestine has already been done. This severely damaged intestine
can easily be infected by secondary bacteria and/or other agents. In cases of acute clinical
coccidiosis treated with the veterinary medicinal product, fluid therapy is essential and the
use of an antibiotic should be considered. Symptoms of clinical disease may remain
obvious in some calves treated with the veterinary medicinal product, even though oocyst
excretion is reduced to a very low level, and overall prevalence of diarrhoea is decreased.
Special precautions to be taken by the person administering the veterinary medicinal
product to animals:
Wash hands after use.
Special precautions for the protection of the environment:
Not applicable.