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Dear friends,

I had two Spilotes pullatus which carried moderate to heavy loads of coccidia.
One specimen had Caryospora, the other had Eimeria.
At first I tried with the conventional doses of Clazuril 5mg/kg.
Once a week for three weeks.
Without success.
Then I tried five days with sulfa-drugs, oral (Bactrim 50 mg/kg).
Without success: fecals were still positive.
Then again with Clazuril, at first 5 mg/kg.
One animal had (and I was surprised of this !) negative fecals.
With the other animal(which had Eimeria) I tried again Clazuril, but at the dosage of 10 mg/kg, once daily, two days without therapy, and then again once; and then I added, after two days without therapy, a dose of Toltrazuril at 25 mg/kg.
Now its fecals are negative ! Wow!
I will give Toltrazuril once again in a week.

These drugs are without side effects, eradicate the parasite and are not so disruptive for the animal as a, for instance, 8 day long therapy with sulfa drugs.

Ruggero

For people interested in possibly using these drugs (or metioning them to your vet) to treat this kind of problem, Clazuril goes under the trade name of Appertex and Toltrazuril goes under the trade name of Baycox.

As always, don't try to medicate your own animals unless directed to do so by a veterinarian.

that may occur following treatment. They kill off the needed bacteria along with the coccidia. There is a history now of Sulfa drugs and other antibiotics causing a fatal yeast fungus in many reptiles following treatment with antibiotics.

Successful treatment by the time it is discovered is not good. It can be avoided to begin with by adding probiotics to their diet with treatment