# Ivermectin for horses/animals

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**Category:** Treatments\
**Created:** [July 10, 2019, 8:44am UTC](https://oozingyellowcrusts.com/t/ivermectin-for-horses-animals/527 "2019-07-10T08:44:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tso](https://oozingyellowcrusts.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@Tso](https://oozingyellowcrusts.com/u/Tso)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://oozingyellowcrusts.com/t/ivermectin-for-horses-animals/527/20 "2017-11-17T18:48:49Z")

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He used a topical ivermectin product that is sold as animal medication, which cheaper, non-prescription and more widely available compared to the human version. You should give the human version, Soolantra, a try. It’s working for a lot of people here.

Have a look here for more info:

> [@Soolantra](http://oozingyellowcrusts.com/t/soolantra/64):
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> Soolantra is a topical prescription cream that is primary used as a treatment for [rosacea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea). Rosacea is a skin disease that causes redness on the face, and depending of the type of rosacea, often with pustules. Soolantra contains [ivermectin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin) as active ingredient and a [Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream](http://www.cetaphil.com/moisturizing-cream) as basis for ivermectin. Oral ivermectin is usually used for skin problems when mites such as demodex or scabies are involved, because is able to kill them. Other medicines are also able to kill these mit…

> [@Main topic - Oozing Yellow Crusts](http://oozingyellowcrusts.com/t/main-topic-oozing-yellow-crusts/26):
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> When I was a teenager, I started getting sties. I thought it was from playing video games. My eyes would swell up a little, a whitehead would rise on the eyelid or underneath the eyelid. It would break, crust over in yellow goo, harden, and then gradually shrink and flake off after 3-4 days. A few months after this started, I pierced my ear by myself. I basically took an earring and stuck it into my ear. This piercing became very swollen, hot and it continued to weep sebum out of the back of my…

Also, you may want to apply it slowely, because it may give a bad initial outbreak:

> [@Bad first reaction](http://oozingyellowcrusts.com/t/bad-first-reaction/178):
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> Hello! maybe it’s too early to say but I’ve been using Soolantra for 4 days and my skin is reacting pretty bad, I have a lot of irritated red circles on my face. Is that normal? Did it happen also to you? My skin is just red but not dry…

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