Kathy,
I just heard from my internist's office about dilution ratios for
Ivermectin (for use in ear canal for earmites). She actually suggests
diluting it even further, 1 part 1% Ivermectin to 99 parts dilution
substance. She suggested using olive oil rather than mineral oil.
Apparently there is something contained in mineral oil that is
"ototoxic" to cats, (toxic to the ears). It must not be a very great
danger, since you've been doing this with success for so long, but might
as well be as safe as possible.
Thanks for all your help,
Nina
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I'm getting ready to do the ear mite annihilation thing myself again.
I use .1 ml Ivermectin and .9 ml water per adult injected, and with
the few who are either very hard to inject or who have health problems
that make me nervous about introducing more meds into their blood
streams (I have two with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and get atenolol
every day and baby aspirin every 3rd day, one of the two also has a
seizure disorder and gets phenobarb for it twice a day, and I have
another who has asthma and gets pred and aminophylline twice a day
everyday) I use mineral oil instead of water (same amount) and use 1/2
ml per ear. With little ones, I divide 1ml by 8 (pounds - average
weight of an adult cat) and use that amount per pound - weighing the
kitten before giving it - basically .25ml (total)/2 pounds. I don't
use it on kittens under 2 pounds as a rule, but if one had mites bad
enough, I'd probably go with the appropriate dose of the mineral oil
mixture in their ears.
