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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1442444" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>I'll admit that DE may have some potential against insects/bugs OUTSIDE the animal... but the whole premise behind folks using it as a 'dewormer' is bogus... 'the sharp edges of the crystals will 'lacerate' the worms' cuticle, causing them to dessicate and die'... NOT. </p><p>For one thing, the parasites may or may not be out in the lumen of the gut; but if they are, they're in a fluid environment... imagine yourself, if you will, as the worm, floating in a swimming pool with floating razor blades in it... maybe one might nick you once in a while, but most will just touch, bounce off and float on past... but even if they did nick you... you're surrounded by a fluid medium - why would you 'dry out' and die? Granted, if you put the worms between two boards, sprinkled them with DE and rubbed the boards back and forth, it would probably damage the worms... but not just passing passively through the GI tract... Even in fecal pats/pellets, at the level that most folks are able to get animals to consume it, DE probably has minimal, if any adverse effect on larval survival. </p><p></p><p>Most all the testimonials about DE (and almost always from folks who want to sell you some!) make claims of 'brighter eyes, shinier coats, run faster, jump higher', etc. If they do any fecal egg counts, they usually don't have a control group to compare to(are lower numbers significantly lower, and would control animals also have lower numbers on that given day? ...and they don't take any other management features, like improved plane of nutrition, etc., into consideration.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1442444, member: 12607"] I'll admit that DE may have some potential against insects/bugs OUTSIDE the animal... but the whole premise behind folks using it as a 'dewormer' is bogus... 'the sharp edges of the crystals will 'lacerate' the worms' cuticle, causing them to dessicate and die'... NOT. For one thing, the parasites may or may not be out in the lumen of the gut; but if they are, they're in a fluid environment... imagine yourself, if you will, as the worm, floating in a swimming pool with floating razor blades in it... maybe one might nick you once in a while, but most will just touch, bounce off and float on past... but even if they did nick you... you're surrounded by a fluid medium - why would you 'dry out' and die? Granted, if you put the worms between two boards, sprinkled them with DE and rubbed the boards back and forth, it would probably damage the worms... but not just passing passively through the GI tract... Even in fecal pats/pellets, at the level that most folks are able to get animals to consume it, DE probably has minimal, if any adverse effect on larval survival. Most all the testimonials about DE (and almost always from folks who want to sell you some!) make claims of 'brighter eyes, shinier coats, run faster, jump higher', etc. If they do any fecal egg counts, they usually don't have a control group to compare to(are lower numbers significantly lower, and would control animals also have lower numbers on that given day? ...and they don't take any other management features, like improved plane of nutrition, etc., into consideration. [/QUOTE]
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