The EquiSal tapeworm test is an innovative saliva test that shows whether your horse has a harmful tapeworm infection.
The test is user-friendly. The saliva can be collected by the horse owner using the supplied swab, which changes colour once enough saliva has been collected. The EquiSal saliva test can be used for all horses.
The EquiSal tapeworm test measures the amount of specific antibodies against tapeworm.
The test consists of three components, correcting for the horse’s saliva production and diet.
By using the EquiSal saliva test, you can rule out a tapeworm infection and no longer need to deworm preventively for tapeworm. This prevents your horse from receiving unnecessary medication, helps preserve its natural immunity, and reduces the risk of worm resistance.
Because tapeworms shed their eggs in packets, a fecal test is not suitable for detecting tapeworms. Sometimes tapeworm eggs are found during a regular fecal test, but these are essentially coincidences. The only conclusion you may draw in that case is that the horse does have tapeworms. On the other hand, if no eggs are seen in the feces, we cannot conclude that the horse is free of tapeworms. Due to the way tapeworms release their eggs, there is also no correlation between any eggs found and the severity of infection, unlike with other gastrointestinal worms.
A saliva test, however, can reliably detect tapeworms.
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