Product details
Legal Category: POM-V
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Active Ingredient:
300mg Prednisolone per 9g sachet
Presentation:
Oral powder. White to off-white powder.
10 x 9g sachets
Uses:
Indicated for the alleviation of inflammatory and clinical parameters associated with recurrent airway obstruction (RAO) in horses, in combination with environmental control.
Dosage and administration:
Oral use.
To ensure administration of the correct dose, body weight should be determined as accurately as possible to avoid under- or overdosing.
A single dose of 1 mg prednisolone/kg body weight per day corresponds to 100 mg prednisolone in a 3 g sachet per 100 kg body weight (see dosing table below).
Treatment may be repeated at 24 hour intervals during 10 consecutive days.
The correct dose should be mixed into a small amount of food.
Food mixed with the veterinary medicinal product should be replaced if not consumed within 24 hours.
Sachets of different pack size can be combined to achieve the correct dose, as per the table below:
Number of Sachets | |||
Body weight (kg) of horse | 100 mg prednisolone (3 g sachet) | 300 mg prednisolone (9 g sachet) | 600 mg prednisolone (18 g sachet) |
100-200 | 2 | ||
200-300 | 1 | ||
300-400 | 1 | 1 | |
400-500 | 2 | 1 | |
500-600 | 1 | ||
600-700 | 1 | 1 | |
700-800 | 2 | 1 | |
800-900 | 1 | 1 | |
900-1000 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Withdrawal periods:
Meat and offal: 10 days.
Not authorised for use in mares producing milk for human consumption.