How to use anti-inflammatory treatment ?
Anti-inflammatory treatments have many interesting properties : At the outset, as their name indicates, action against inflammation, but also, for many of between - them action against pain and the ability to lower high fever.
These molecules are nonetheless drugs and it is important to know the side effects and against indications not provoke your pet, wanting to relieve during a painful crisis, sometimes serious disorders.
PROPERTIES Anti-Inflammatory
The anti-inflammatory treatments have considerable evidence.
Their job is very interesting for:
– Avoid pain during and after surgical intervention
– treating acute inflammatory crises (as in osteoarthritis flare)
– Help calm cough in some respiratory diseases
– Fight against fever (in combination with antibiotics for infections)
– Improving End of Life animals with incurable diseases…
It would seem that the administration of anti-inflammatory well individuals can increase the survival time of animals with certain types of cancer.
Their use is very common and every pet owner usually has in his pharmacy (whether human forms or veterinary presentations). It is very tempting when lameness, signs of pain or fever to administer a few days at his animal to "relieve".
Attention However self-medication : these drugs are cons-indicated in some diseases and can have significant side effects of overdose, prolonged administration or use in certain species.
DISADVANTAGES OF ANTI-INFLAMMATORY
Digestive disorders
Pets have in their intestines nonpathogenic bacterial flora naturally.
Anti-inflammatory drugs will unbalance This flora (by changing the intestinal pH or destruction of certain bacterial populations) and can then cause the appearance of digestive disorders such as severe diarrhea. This phenomenon is particularly marked in new pets (rat, Rabbit, Guinea pig, Hamster) in whom these drugs should be used with caution to avoid serious side effects.
In addition, as humans, many anti-inflammatory weaken the lining of the stomach and intestines. Their prolonged use may cause the appearance ofulcers on the gastrointestinal mucosa. There still, rodents and rabbits are particularly vulnerable : many practicing Coprophagia or caecotrophy, they will réingérer repeatedly molecule, thus increasing the time of contact with the gastrointestinal mucosa and therefore the risk of ulceration.
The impact of the administration of anti-inflammatory drugs on the gastrointestinal tract may be limited by the drug administration during the meal and the use of antacids or mucosa protectors digestive throughout the anti-inflammatory therapy.
The new generations of anti-inflammatory are significantly less harmful to the digestive plane and can be prescribed for longer durations (especially in chronic conditions such as osteoarthritis). Your veterinarian will you identify these molecules.
Jobs against-indicated in certain situations
– As we have indicated, many anti-inflammatory weaken the digestive mucosa. They are therefore formally against-indicated in animals suffering frombleeding ordigestive ulcers.
– Anti-inflammatory drugs can worsen the clinical status of animals with ihepatic nsuffisance, heart or kidney and therefore should not be used in these animals.
It is tempting, each arthritic crisis of an old animal, to give it an anti-inflammatory previously prescribed treatment. But it should, before each new treatment, Contact your veterinarian to judge him, depending on your pet's age and his health, if a blood test must be performed before treatment. This assessment will verify the absence of any liver or kidney disease (kidney failure in some animals can begin from the age of 6-7 years).
– They are cons-indicated in pregnant and lactating females and among Very young animals (animals a few weeks)
– Anti-inflammatory drugs must not be Related each other or with corticosteroids to prevent serious overdoses. If your pet is already receiving treatment for another condition, always ensure, before the administration of anti-inflammatory, that the two molecules are compatible.
Toxicity in overdose
Each animal species is to receive a specific amount of a drug. Or, Human presentations are often not at all adapted to the weight of our animals:
The paracetamol not part of the anti-inflammatory in the strict sense but is a very commonly used analgesic. If its use is widespread and that its use has become almost trivial to fight against fever or slight pain in humans, it may still cause serious problems in animals. It is thus highly toxic overdoses particularly in the CAT. Its absorption then leads to serious blood abnormalities : animal red blood cells intoxicated become abnormal and are no longer able to carry oxygen. Severe respiratory failure and death of the animal can occur in the absence of appropriate treatment.
Similarly, l’administration d’ibuprofen or paracetamol owner is, for example, part of the leading causes of poisoning in the ferret. The animals can then present, in a few hours, nerve disorders (abnormal gait, tremors, fatigue or coma), digestive disorders (Anorexia, vomiting, bloody diarrhea) and more or less severe kidney damage.
In rabbits, Paracetamol is frequently responsible for serious liver problems.
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Anti-inflammatory drugs are essential in many situations and some of their properties continue to be discovered at present (use in the fight against cancer in particular…). However, these drugs should not be taken lightly: they can be toxic in some animals, have significant side effects or overdose in animals already suffering from a disease (renal failure, hepatic, gastric ulcers…).
Always consult your veterinarian before deciding to administer an anti-inflammatory for your pet. He knows your pet, his age, any conditions which it already suffers, that He receives the treatment… It will therefore give you the most suitable molecule to the situation and the dosages to be administered to your pet.
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