EC Treatment Dosages???

[JumpinJubilee]

I'm wading through a glut of unclear information on EC treatment. My daughter's German Angora has EC (ocular presentation). We purchased liquid Ivermectin and Fenbendazole 10% and I CANNOT find appropriate dosing info anywhere. I intend to treat orally-- as soon as I can find dosages! Please, please help me sort this out!
The rabbit is 9 pounds (=4 Kg) and 9 months old.

The Ivermectin: Barbie's Bunnies told us to give 1/10 cc Ivermectin per pound body weight-- but how often? I remember Randy posting something about 4 treatments-- how frequently?

And the Fenbendazole-- their product page says this, but it seems WAY too much to give 80 cc daily for 28 days: Treatment regime For rabbits with clinical signs associated with E.cuniculi a treatment course of 20 mg/kg (1 syringe graduation per 2.5 kg bodyweight) daily for 28 days is recommended. Direct contact with the skin should be kept to a minimum. Wash hands after use.
Panacur Rabbit Data Sheet - Wildpro

 

[JBun]

Fenbendazole dosage is 20mg/kg, once a day, for about a month. So for a 4kg rabbit it would be 0.8ml of the 10% fenbendazole liquid suspension(100mg/ml). Not 80cc, but 80mg for a 4kg rabbit, which is 0.8ml/cc(8 tenths of one ml/cc).

The panacur dosing you are reading is for an oral paste sold for rabbits, mostly in the UK, so not the same as the liquid suspension. If you bought a large tube of panacur or safeguard horse paste, I would return it and get the liquid suspension(safeguard goat dewormer) as it is easier and better for measuring out the correct dose. If you bought the horse paste, it's more complicated to make sure you are administering the correct dose, as that is intended for much larger animals than a rabbit. The whole tube has to be emptied, contents mixed thoroughly to evenly distribute the active ingredient, then measured out based on grams I believe. If you managed to buy the panacur paste specifically sold for rabbits, then you would follow the instructions for dosing provided with it.

Here are links with the treatment info for EC induced uveitis and general EC treatment. And for the eye itself that is affected, you would need the appropriate eye drop prescribed by your vet.
http://www.vetfolio.com/ophthalmolo...ciated-phacoclastic-uveitis-in-a-dwarf-rabbit
http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Neurology/Paper/fenbendazole.pdf
http://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Common_drug_dosages_for_rabbits
https://rabbit.org/vet-listings/

Ivermectin is not an approved treatment for EC, and is not effective against it, as it does not cross the blood brain barrier(and if it did would be fatal to the rabbit), and it's action doesn't work on this type of parasite. Ivermectin only works in minor cases of head tilt that have ear mite involvement contributing or causing the head tilt, not head tilt caused only by EC.