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What did the vet just prescribe?

49 medications, each from its own FDA label and the FDA's safety notices. No doses, and nothing invented.

Your vet hands you a box, says the name once, and you are in the car before you think of a question. Every page here is written from that medicine's FDA-approved label and from the FDA's own safety notices: what it is approved to treat, in which animal, what the label warns about, what the field study found, and anything the FDA has said since. Nothing is invented, and there are no doses anywhere, because the dose belongs to the vet who examined your animal.

This is not a substitute for the vet who prescribed it. Read it before the appointment so you know what to ask, or after it so the box makes sense. Never start, stop or change a medication because of a web page.

Itch, allergy and skin

The drugs a vet reaches for when a dog will not stop scratching.

Pain, arthritis and joints

Anti-inflammatories and the newer monthly injections.

Fleas, ticks, heartworm and worms

The monthly and yearly preventives, and what the FDA has said about them.

Antibiotics

What each one is approved to treat.

Heart, hormones and the gut

The long-term medications: heart failure, thyroid, diabetes, Addison's, nausea, appetite.

Behavior, noise and anxiety

Approved for fear and anxiety, and what the label says about each.

Human drugs vets prescribe

No animal label exists for these. What that means, and the rule that allows it.

Where this comes from

Every approved animal medicine in the United States has a label the FDA signed off on, and the FDA publishes the whole list. The labels quoted here are on DailyMed and Animal Drugs @ FDA, and each page links the exact ones it used.

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