QuestionDear Sir, I was reading the answered questions and you mentioned that wormer medicines are easily available in any pharmacy. In the US there are none sold over the counter and most doctors dont believe anyone needs wormers and act like they know nothing about it and dont want to prescribe it.. Can you mention the generic names of some broad spectrum ones you have used? perhaps albendazole, febendazole or ivermectin which are common here?It would help to be prepared...I raise animals and they are always having worms and many worms are now resistant to the wormers.Particularly the blood type parasites that would not be noticed at a slaughter house's 1 second inspection, of every 10th animal or once a month inspection at the smaller butcher houses.. I would like to do the raw meat diet and have started but still am worried about parasites- once you have something it is very hard to know what it is and very expensive to test for each individual one (like $75 or more each) which is what they seem to do....
Thank you for your advice.. Abby
AnswerHello,
I only ever had to use one type of anti-worm medicine. Praziquantel was its name, I think.
I only ever had one minor worm experience in 12 years of eating raw meats. Most of that time I was eating raw wild game, plus reports of parasite-infestation in the RVAF diet community are very rare indeed, so I seriously doubt the notion that parasites are everywhere in raw meats. In order to get rid of the harmless but unaesthetic tapeworms in my system, all I had to do was get a prescription from my mother`s doctor and that was that, they died in 2 days - the medicine cost 5 euros because it was ordered via a doctor`s prescription. Plus, it was easy to tell that I had tapeworms at the time as the parasites came out in clumps in my stools.
There is also the herbal medicine route, but it is expensive. I believe wormwood, black walnut and cloves are required to get rid of parasites.
HTH,
RPG.
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