Ordering your pet's prescription drugs from Wedgewood Pharmacy is safe, and convenient. With a prescription number, easily refill prescriptions and enroll in the AutoRefill Program. Like humans, dogs and cats develop bacterial infections that require a treatment program involving antibiotics. Antibacterial medications are essential for treating these infections because they destroy the infected organism while leaving your pet's healthy cells intact.
Some antibiotics work by preventing bacteria from building cell walls, thereby stopping their ability to reproduce, while others work by starving the bacteria to prevent the infected organism from being able to turn glucose into energy.
Here are the most-common antibiotics used in veterinary medicine to treat infections in dogs and cats and their uses. Gentamicin —Gentamicin is prescribed to treat dogs with eye infections, ear infections, and pneumonia. This medicine also is prescribed with an anti-inflammatory drug to help reduce redness and swelling. Chloramphenicol —Chloramphenicol is an antibiotic that has a level of pH that can be safe enough for it to completely pass through your dog's body.
This makes it a top choice for treating a dog with bacterial infections in the organs. Sulfamethoxole —Sulfamethoxole is used to treat urinary-tract infections in dogs. This antibiotic can be hard on a dog's gastrointestinal system and it often causes side effects like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and loss of appetite.
While your dog is taking sulfamethoxole, make sure she drinks plenty of water to stay hydrated. Tetracycline —Tetracycline can treat a variety of bacterial infections because it prevents proteins from synthesizing.
Tetracycline is used whenever another antibiotic has proven ineffective because it has the ability to break through the protection barriers the bacteria use to protect themselves. Amoxicillin —Amoxicillin is prescribed by veterinarians to treat bacterial infections in cats. It is highly effective against everything from skin infections to gastrointestinal infections. Cephalexin —Cephalexin is another broad-range antibiotic that is popular for use in cats because it typically produces minimal side-effects.
It is used to treat urinary tract infections, skin and soft tissue bacterial infections, infections in the bones, and respiratory tract infections. There is an emergence of resistance to antibiotics and the inappropriate use of these life-saving medications is a factor. In order to preserve the effectiveness of these drugs, they should only be used when necessary. You can help protect antibiotics by:. The misuse of antibiotics contributes to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.
Pet owners and veterinarians must work together to ensure that antibiotics are used responsibly. When the first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered in , infectious disease treatment took a turn for the better. Rates of sickness and death in humans and animals were greatly reduced, thanks to these antimicrobial products. Antibiotics are life-saving drugs, but their use must be appropriate in order to preserve the effectiveness of these drugs. A recent report from the World Health Organization indicates the last new class of antibacterial drugs was discovered in the s.
It's hard to know for certain how many people take antibiotics made for animals, but in this part of rural Pennsylvania, Shecktor says there are plenty of residents who would rather use cheap, easy-to-obtain veterinary medications than go to a physician. In , three Army doctors wrote to the New England Journal of Medicine about soldiers taking veterinary antibiotics.
They described one serviceman who recounted his purchase of antibiotics from the fish aisle of a local pet store. Telford emphasizes that this is a bad idea, and he doesn't think anyone -- including himself — should be doing it. Plus, Telford says, he knows how to properly use doxycycline, which he takes to avoid Lyme disease. But incorrect use of antibiotics can lead to undesirable outcomes, Fellman — the veterinary pharmacologist — warns. For example, it might pave the way for antibiotic resistant super-bacteria to colonize your body.
Veterinary drugs are not always approved by the Food and Drug Administration, either. While the federal agency does regulate prescription drugs like the animal doxycycline Telford has used, over-the-counter animal medications — like the fish antibiotics Shecktor uses -- are not checked by the FDA for safety or efficacy. There could be dangerous contaminants that you would never know. And veterinary medications might not always work on humans, Fellman points out, even those who know the correct dosage to take.
Drugs, or the pill formulation containing the drug, can be tailored to the specific biology of a species.
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