What types of medicine are used to treat animals?

Answer 1

Veterinarians mostly order their medications directly from several large companies that function as manufacturers and wholesalers - Pfizer, Merial, Fort Dodge and Eli Lilly are some of the biggest.

Answer 2

Veterinarians use a very wide variety of medications. It is impossible to list here due to the sheer number. There are mutliple large books published on the different drugs used in veterinary medicine.

Answer 3

Large animal veterinarians tend to work with a few major types of drugs - antibiotics, hormones, and anesthetic/analgesic agents. On a typical vet truck you'll find a large stock of penicillin, tetracycline and cephalosporin (all antibiotics), several anesthetics (Lidocaine is extremely popular), large bottles of vaccine doses and several bottles of euthanasia solution. Also, large animal veterinarians with a significant dairy cow population in their client list will carry a number of electrolyte solutions to treat milk fever and other macromineral deficiencies.

Answer 4

Veterinarians use pretty much the same classes of medicine to treat animals as human physicians use to treat human patients. The most common types of medicine used by veterinarians are antibiotics (like penicillin, tetracycline, and cephalosporin), analgesics (pain relievers such as NSAIDs or opioids), and immune modulators (usually immune suppressors, such as prednisone and other corticosteroids). However, veterinarians also use chemotherapeutic drugs to treat cancer, anesthetics for surgery, antiseptics to clean everything from a wound to a surgery table, hormones for certain endocrine disorders, antiparasiticides to eliminate worms and other pests, and some novel drugs for everything from epileptic control to electrolyte balancing.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Probably the number one class of medicine that veterinarians use and prescribe would be antibiotics, which range from amoxicillin to tetracycline to fluoroquinolone.

Answer 7

Veterinarians will administer all kinds of medication, ranging from the more common antibiotics to anesthetics, chemotherapy and antiparasiticides.