Bimamec 5mg/mL Pour-on solution for Cattle

Bimamec contains the active ingredient Ivermectin and is indicated for the following uses:

For the treatment and control of gastro-intestinal nematodes, lungworms, eyeworms, warbles, chorioptic and sarcoptic mange and sucking and biting lice in beef and non- lactating dairy cattle.

The product at the recommended dosage level of 500 μg ivermectin per kg bodyweight effectively controls the following parasites of cattle:

Gastrointestinal roundworms (adult and fourth stage larvae):
Ostertagia ostertagi
(including inhibited stage)
Haemonchus placei
Trichostrongylus axei T. colubriformis Cooperia spp. Oesophagostomum radiatum
Strongyloides papillosus adult
Trichuris spp. adult

Lungworms (adult and fourth stage larvae):
Dictyocaulus viviparus

Eyeworms (adult):
Thelazia spp.

Warbles (parasitic stages):
Hypoderma bovis
H. lineatum

Mites:
Sarcoptes scabiei var. bovis
Chorioptes bovis

Lice:
Linognathus vituli
Haematopinus eurysternus
Solenopotes capillatus
Damalinia bovis

The product, given at the recommended dosage of 500 micrograms per kg bodyweight, controls infections with Trichostrongylus axei and Cooperia spp acquired up to 14 days after treatment, Ostertagia ostertagi and Oesophagostomum radiatum acquired during the first 21 days after treatment and Dictyocaulus viviparus (lungworm) acquired during the first 28 days after treatment. It also controls horn fly (Haematobia irritans) for up to 35 days after treatment.