Cost of pet wormers in Denmark

Re: Cost of pet wormers in Denmark

Anthony Dennison — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:19:43 GMT

[quote user="plantagenet"]Personally, I would have thought the zoonotic risk is the much greater. Have the Danes looked at their kid's eyes.[/quote]

If I remember rightly, visceral larva migrans is more common than ocular larva migrans, but more is heard of about ocular problems because of blindness. People having a grumbling stomach for a few months isn't as newsworthy, or hard-hitting enough to get people to worm their pets regularly

Re: Cost of pet wormers in Denmark

Dagmar Steele — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:01:57 GMT

[quote user="plantagenet"]

[quote user="Dagmar Steele"] Re the eyes of Danish children:[/quote]

The study in Ireland was scary - remarkable number of lesions due to migrating toxacara larvae, only some causing clinical visual impairment. I guess if you don't look for a problem, you don't know its extent.

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that might as well be true. And what I said was nothing near to anything scientifical. I worm my animals regularly...

Re: Cost of pet wormers in Denmark

plantagenet — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:41:11 GMT

[quote user="Dagmar Steele"] Re the eyes of Danish children:[/quote]

Re: Cost of pet wormers in Denmark

Dagmar Steele — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:33:26 GMT

I was about to post the Esscap link, but on their site there is also the recommendation to worm every 3 months or even every month in animals that catch a lot of mice. Fecal samples are a problem because eggs are shedded intermittently, so I wouldn't necessarily expect to find eggs in a single sample even if worms are present. I would feel much safer if I had multiple samples (let's say over three days) to look at. Re the eyes of Danish children: I spent a good deal of my holidays in Denmark and have even made some Danish friends over the years, so far I haven't heard of any issues and I am always very impressed how calm and caring Danish parents are compared to the Germans (if you hear someone shout at their child on the campsite it's almost always in German ...)

Re: Cost of pet wormers in Denmark

plantagenet — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:05:51 GMT

[quote user="Emily Herskind Nightingale"]risk [/quote]

Personally, I would have thought the zoonotic risk is the much greater. Have the Danes looked at their kid's eyes.

Re: Cost of pet wormers in Denmark

Emily Nightingale — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:28:48 GMT

As far as I know the faecal sampling prior to worming, is done on the basis that there is resistance developing in the large animal and equine populations so to reduce risk of resistance in companion animals this is the strategy used.

There is more info in the ESCCAP guidelines which you might find useful. http://www.esccap.org/uploads/docs/nkzqxmxn_esccapgl1endoguidelines.pdf

Re: Cost of pet wormers in Denmark

James Laidlaw — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:13:58 GMT

[quote user="Emily Herskind Nightingale"]

Hi- routine working is prohibited due to resistance concerns therefore routine baermann and Mcmaster worming techniques are used and worming is done on the basis of these results. As for the cost of worming, I'm not sure but I can find out. =)

[/quote] Is there data somewhere to give foundation to resistance concerns in small animals?

Re: Cost of pet wormers in Denmark

Hannah Wynne Richards — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:01:06 GMT

It would be interesting to compare Danish veterinary hourly rates with ours-without the cross subsidy from drug sales

Wynne

Re: Cost of pet wormers in Denmark

Emily Nightingale — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:44:04 GMT

Yes it's a risk, but in general there isnt so much concern re cross infection as there is over here. Not sure why!

Re: Cost of pet wormers in Denmark

plantagenet — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:32:11 GMT

Aren't they worried about Toxacara and children?

Re: Cost of pet wormers in Denmark

Emily Nightingale — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:27:29 GMT

Hi- routine worming is prohibited due to resistance concerns therefore routine baermann and Mcmaster worming techniques are used and worming is done on the basis of these results. As for the cost of worming, I'm not sure but I can find out. =)

Re: Cost of pet wormers in Denmark

Dagmar Steele — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:12:43 GMT

We're quite close to Denmark and I speak a little Danish... it seems four Milbemax Cat would cost about 48 Euros (in Germany they would be 9,97 each), a dogs tablet (no brand given) for a 5.5kg puppy was about 5 Euros. They have a medicine handling fee (app 5 Euros), that was already included in the cat's price but not in the dog's price, we don't charge that if we dispense directly, but if we write a prescription as they do in Denmark we charge the same.

Hope that helps, maybe there's a Danish VetSurgeon member?