Vetadex 50 ml
Anti-inflammatory drug for animals Vetadex
Composition: 1 ml of the drug contains the active ingredient: dexamethasone sodium phosphate – 2.64 mg (equivalent to 2 mg of dexamethasone). Excipients: glycerin, propylene glycol, Trilon B, methylparaben, propylparaben, sodium dihydrogen phosphate, disodium phosphate.
Pharmacological properties of Vetadex
Glucocorticosteroid drug that has anti-inflammatory, antiallergic, desensitizing, anti-shock, immunosuppressive and antiproliferative effects. Dexamethasone reduces or prevents tissue response to inflammation by reducing the development of signs of inflammation without affecting its cause. It also affects all stages of the inflammatory process. Reduces the permeability of blood vessels due to the release of histamine, inhibits the release of kinins and the formation of antibodies. Designed for the treatment of cattle (including young animals), horses, pigs, sheep, goats, dogs and cats. It is used to treat diseases such as: metabolic processes: ketosis in cattle or postpartum toxemia in sheep and sows, non-infectious inflammatory processes, especially acute musculoskeletal inflammation such as: arthritis, periarthritis, tendovaginitis, bursitis, dislocations, muscle and bone inflammation and tendons, acute infectious diseases (acute mastitis, metritis, pneumonia), in combination with appropriate antibiotic therapy, allergic conditions, such as asthma, allergic skin lesions (eczema, urticaria, itching, etc.), laminitis in horses and cattle , snake bites, stress and shock, toxemia during the last stage of pregnancy (within 2-4 days).
Contraindications
Hypersensitivity to the drug, systemic fungal infection, active tuberculosis, diabetes mellitus, systemic infections, arterial hypertension, acute disorders of higher nervous activity, pregnancy, gastric and / or intestinal ulcers, viral diseases, osteoporosis, Itsenko-Cushing’s syndrome, hypersensitivity to the components of the drug.
Vetadex method of administration and dosage of the drug 50 ml
The drug is administered intravenously, intramuscularly or subcutaneously (dogs, cats): cattle, horses: 5-10 ml per 400 kg of body weight. Pigs: 1.5 ml per 50 kg body weight. Sheep, goats, calves: 1-2 ml per 50 kg of body weight. Dogs, cats: 0.25-0.5 ml per 5 kg of body weight. If necessary, the drug is administered repeatedly: to dogs and cats with a 2-day interval; other animals at 3-4 day intervals. To initiate calving in cows, the drug is administered within 1 week before the birth of calves at a dose of 2.5 ml per 100 kg of body weight. In case of postpartum toxemia and to initiate lambing in sheep and goats: 6 ml of the drug per 50 kg of body weight. In the complex of anti-shock therapy, the drug is used by slow intravenous injection of a tenfold anti-inflammatory dose, again after 8-12 hours.