Hi all, I’ve been a horse trainer/barn manager for 15 years and I’ve used ivermectIn paste on my horses that whole time. I’ve definitely accidentally gotten it in my mouth more than once (deworming horses is not the neatest of jobs) and I’ve never gotten sick from it. But more importantly than an anecdotal story, I came here to say

1. The ivermectin in the “horse paste” is the same as in the pill form, just in different delivery methods. The paste is just easier to get in horses but should meet the same quality standards as any human drug. Think of it kind of like liquid Tylenol for kids vs pill form for adults. Different delivery methods and different dosing guidelines but there’s no reason the correct dose of children’s liquid Tylenol wouldn’t work on an adult. You’d probably also be surprised at how many drugs used in veterinary medicine are just like this and are the same ones used in human medicine.

And 2. One possible explanation if people actually are getting sick from taking the “horse paste” is that they don’t know the correct dose and are taking way too much at once. Paste ivermectin comes in a very large syringe (no needle) meant to be squirted into your horses mouth. I would guess that if anyone has gotten sick from it, it’s because they took the whole syringe full at once… which is the dose for a 1200+ pound animal and will most definitely give you a nasty stomach ache if not worse. This would likely be the case if you took 9-10x the recommended dosage of any drug wether over the counter or Rx. To get the correct dosage of the paste, the plunger on the syringe has notches in it and a ring that spins around it with increasing numbers of pounds of body weight marked along it. You twist the ring until you get to the desired amount of pounds (for a person it would probably only be a notch or two up the plunger). This ring stops you from being able to dispense too much from the syringe. So for example, since one syringe has enough ivermectin for 1200lbs of body weight, one syringe would provide 10 doses for someone who weighs 120lbs.

Edit: also if you use the paste, make sure you get one that only has ivermectin as the active ingredient.

Hi all, I’ve been a horse trainer/barn manager for 15 years and I’ve used ivermectIn paste on my horses that whole time. I’ve definitely accidentally gotten it in my mouth more than once (deworming horses is not the neatest of jobs) and I’ve never gotten sick from it. But more importantly than an anecdotal story, I came here to say

1. The ivermectin in the “horse paste” is the same as in the pill form, just in different delivery methods. The paste is just easier to get in horses but should meet the same quality standards as any human drug. Think of it kind of like liquid Tylenol for kids vs pill form for adults. Different delivery methods and different dosing guidelines but there’s no reason the correct dose of children’s liquid Tylenol wouldn’t work on an adult. You’d probably also be surprised at how many drugs used in veterinary medicine are just like this and are the same ones used in human medicine.

And 2. One possible explanation if people actually are getting sick from taking the “horse paste” is that they don’t know the correct dose and are taking way too much at once. Paste ivermectin comes in a very large syringe (no needle) meant to be squirted into your horses mouth. I would guess that if anyone has gotten sick from it, it’s because they took the whole syringe full at once… which is the dose for a 1200+ pound animal and will most definitely give you a nasty stomach ache if not worse. This would likely be the case if you took 9-10x the recommended dosage of any drug wether over the counter or Rx. To get the correct dosage of the paste, the plunger on the syringe has notches in it and a ring that spins around it with increasing numbers of pounds of body weight marked along it. You twist the ring until you get to the desired amount of pounds (for a person it would probably only be a notch or two up the plunger). This ring stops you from being able to dispense too much from the syringe. So for example, since one syringe has enough ivermectin for 1200lbs of body weight, one syringe would provide 10 doses for someone who weighs 120lbs.