Toby, ok your right. I didn't have the book when I last posted and having it now, 2nd edition '07, I dug it out.
I'm betting not much has changed since the first edition.
While thinking of crypto I confused it with treatment for another intestinal parasite amoebas & flagellates where flagyl is first choice.
While I was wrong there I was half wrong...
Crypto gets interesting as there are 6 different recommended medications. Apparently Klingenberg doesn't raise the white flag to quickly either. As you said HBC hyperimmune bovine colostrum treated over 6 weeks is said to have had some success but, trimethoprim sulfa is listed as being first choice and is said to be very effective against crypto's kiss'in cousin coccidia.
Treatment again is everyday for 2 weeks then once a week for...? (doesn't say???)
The other 4 treatments say that it helps but does not eliminate the parasite. I won't go through the bother of listing the other 4 since Roger says they won't eliminate the parasite so whats the point right?

So sorry with thinking it was flagyl when it was trimethor..whatchcallit. Flagyl works for alot of stuff and well in my defense I guess its just easier to remember.
I may have gotten the med wrong, but I knew there is still hope if crpto is the cause.
Mike.

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