Canine Prescription Drugs

Video Transcript

"Now we are going to talk about medications specifically for our canine patients, or dogs. There are a lot of medications we use in dogs. A lot of those medications we actually cannot use in cats and so there are some canine specific medications. We use a lot of drugs for their eyes. Dogs seem to get a lot of injuries to their eyes and we use a lot of opthalmologic drugs such as topical drops that we can put in their eyes for ulcers and things of that nature. We also in our canine patients use a lot of gastrointestinal medications. They tend to eat a lot of things that they are not supposed to eat and get a lot of stomach upsets and a lot of diarrhea. We have some really extraordinary medications these days for our canine patients as far as preventing vomiting and controlling diarrhea and GI states like that. We also specifically in the canine use a lot of cardiac drugs. There are some new cardiac medications to treat heart failure, to treat heart diseases of several different types and they are working very well and we're controlling a lot of our canine's heart diseases in this manner. We also of course, in dogs, treat a lot of infections, bite wounds, toe nail infections, all sorts of things with antibiotics. Antibiotics are a very common way of dealing with lots of infections and they can come in an injectable form versus a tablet form and in some situations these tablets are actually chewables and they are flavored for our canine patients so they will actually eat them easier. We also in our canine patients use a lt of anti-inflammatories for arthritis and pain. Some of our bigger and older animals develop arthritis in their joints as they get older. This is very common but these days there are lots of anti-inflammatory medications. Several different types in fact that can be used on a chronic basis or short term basis for pain. This works very well for these guys. You can't use these in cats but you can in dogs. Another class that we use a lot unfortunately is dogs have a tremendous amount of allergies to our environment, whether that is dust or pollen or food. We use a lot of antihistamines, a lot of different antihistamines are in tablet form and we are commonly using a lot of over-the-counter medications these days too, antihistamines and that sort of thing to treat allergies."