Antihelmintics
Albentabs 250 meat flavor

(for EXPORT sales)

Description

Plano-cylinder tablets with a strip and a facet from white to gray color and specific odor.

Composition.
0,8 g of the drug (1 tablet) contains: active ingredient albendazole – 250 mg and excipients.
Pharmacological Characteristic
ATCvet QP52A, veterinary drug against trematodes (ATCvet QP52AS11, albendazole)

Active ingredient of the drug — Albendazol (methyl [5 – (propylsulphanyl)-1n-benzimidazol-2-yl] carbamate, benzimidazole derivatives). Albendazole inhibits protein (tubular) synthesis, resulting in a disturbance of nutrients entrance, intracellular transport and exchange of adenosine triphosphate and glucose. The mitochondrial reaction  is reduced through inhibition fumaratereduktase, causing a decrease of glycogen and the death of the parasites from exhaustion.
Application
Deworming of dogs and cats with gastro-intestinal and pulmonary nematodes, some imaginal cestodes and trematodes:

– Pulmonary and gastrointestinal nematodoses — Trichuriasis (Trichuris vulpis, Trichuris nutria), toxocarosis (Toxocara canis),toxoscarosis (Toxascaris leonina), ancylostomiasis(Ancylostoma caninum), uncinariosis (Uncinaria stenocephala);

– Cestodosis — dipilidiosis (Dipylidium caninum), diphyllobothriasis (Diphyllobothrium latum, Diphyllobothrium minus),mesocestoidiasis (Mesocestoides lineatus, Mesocestoides petrovi), Taeniosis (Taenia hydatigena, Taenia pisiformis, Taenia ovis);
– Trematodosis – opisthorchiasis(Opisthorchis felineus).

Dosage
Drug is applied per os, once or twice with an interval of 7 days with meal in doses given in the table below:

 

Animal species

class of helminth 

dose

Dogs

nematodes, cestodes

1 tablet per 10 kg

trematodes

Cats

nematodes, cestodes

1 tablet per 10 kg

trematodes

 

Contraindications and Precautions
Use is forbiden for pregnant animals and during lactogenesis. Animals which are hypersensitivity to bezimidazol compounds, could have complications, such as: allergic reactions (skin rash, itching, edema), hematopoiesis derangements.Desensitization therapy is prescribed if the patient has complications after the use of the drug.

Warnings

Do not use the drug simultaneous with other anthelmintics

Form of packaging
Blister – 1, 10, 30 tablets.

Storage
In the dry, dark, well ventilated (relative humidity of 75%) room on the shelf with the temperature from 15  to 30 °C.
Do not store together with food
Expiration date – 2 years from the release date