Is probably fine? (I used a 200lb horse amount) (for my 200 lb horse) (not medical advice for your horse) 🐎
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With medicines based on molds (penicillin, e.g.), bacteria can develop a tolerance to them.
However IVM is based on byproducts of a bacterium. Not sure if that would also cause some resistance to its effects over time? Or not. Possibly something to double check into?
from acs . org:
Discovery of Ivermectin: Preventing Blindness and Heartworm
The story is so improbable it defies belief: A soil sample from Japan prevents suffering in Africa. It starts when a scientist discovers a lowly bacterium in soil near a golf course outside Tokyo.
A team of scientists in the U.S. finds that the bacterium produces compounds that interfere with the activity of nematode worms. It is developed into a drug that wards off parasites in countless pets and farm animals, averting billions of dollars in losses worldwide.
Extraordinarily, the drug also prevents or treats human parasitic diseases that would otherwise cause blindness and other severe symptoms in hundreds of millions of people in many of the poorest countries on Earth...