Powder Treating Worm Infections Pyrantel Pamoate
Production Introduction
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Pyrantel Pamoate powder is a medication used to treat a number of parasitic worm infections. This includes ascariasis, hookworm infections, enterobiasis (pinworm infection),trichostrongyliasis, and trichinellosis.
Application
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Pyrantel pamoate acts as a depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent, thereby causing sudden contraction, followed by
paralysis, of the helminths.
Since Pyrantel is poorly absorbed by the host's intestine, the host is unaffected by
the small dosage of medication used. Spastic (tetanic) paralyzing agents, in particular pyrantel pamoate, may induce
complete intestinal obstruction in a heavy worm load. This obstruction is usually in the form of a worm impaction and
happens when a very small, but heavily parasitized animal is treated and tries to pass a large number of dislodged worms
at once. Worms usually pass in normal stool or with diarrhea, straining, and occasional vomiting.