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My vet has put Hugo on a 5 day course of panacur paste to treat for possible lungworm.

Has he caught it off slugs do you think, i hope hes ok x

once again. Advocate is the only UK preventative for lungworms. Panacur is used to treat/kill lungworms if the animal is already infected, but it will not protect your pet from getting them again Advocate is the only treatment that will do this in the UK. normal treatment is 3 to 5 days on Panacur i think to kill them. but you will need to get some Advocate to keep it from happening again if your pet is at risk. it's rare for cats though as most won't eat slugs and snails.

Er, I was just expressing my surprise when I was handed what I thought was a normal wormer (in my limited pet owner experience) to try and get rid of a wheezy chest.

Jen, we don't know if it is lungworm, he's not yet 5 months and I've never let him out. He just sounds like he's on 40 marlboro' a day when he's sleeping on my pillow of a night

I wonder if the vet has considered asthma? A couple of years ago I rehomed an Ocicat boy, a stud who I'd had neutered - soon after he'd gone to his new home he developed a cough - the vet initially thought lungworm, but further testing revealed asthma. Cassius has to have medication but is otherwise in excellent health now.

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Asthma did cross my mind, he's booked in for the end of next week and if anti-b's and panacur haven't helped he'll be x-rayed. How do they diagnose asthma in cats? I can't see them blowing into a peak flow meter