Diatomacious Earth ( DE ) thread :)

[me]

my very uneducated guess is, its detox. because they come and go so quickly. it happens on the skin, why not in the mouth. I use de or clay to get rid of sores in my mouth after we eat out sometimes.

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Originally Posted by Taedareth

Honestly, I gotta say I prefer poisoning the worm and getting it out all at once And I also suspect that the rice-shaped things are some other species of parasite. Poor kitty!

You know how DE can be sprinkled in your garden and it supposedly does not harm earthworms? I don't see how that could be, when you consider that many intestinal parasites are approximately the same size and shape as an earthworm, and in large animals (including humans) they can actually be as big as a very large earthworm. So either DE is not effective against roundworms etc. or DE is not safe for garden worms. One or the other

A positive side to that is if the cat is infested with parasites and they are comming out gradually you dont run as high of a risk of them tangling in a ball and causing an obstruction.

I agree with the pp, the link i gave you describes the eggs and names tapeworm.

I too wonder about the beneficial bugs and de. i think on the sites where they talk about using it in the garden they mention to be mindful of the good bugs. Just off memory cause I havent had a garden yet to use it in, or else i would have all sorts of bookmarks for that for you, lol