Some pets don't take oral medication very well, so
a medicine applied to the skin is most effective.
Not exact matches
Indian Ayurvedic
medicine calls for the entire chile plant — leaves, pods, stem, branches, and roots —
to be boiled in milk and
applied to swellings and tumors on the
skin.
You can take these
medicines by mouth or
apply them
to your
skin.
Even touching a pet after
applying Fluorouracil cream
to your own
skin could be dangerous, they say, if the pet then ingests traces of the
medicine.
If
applying a layer of sunblock
to your
skin or mixing it into your foundation seems like an unnecessary step in your morning routine, consider this: The sun causes an estimated 90 % of
skin aging, according
to an Australian study published in Annals of Internal
Medicine in 2013.
In addition, high toxicity with systemic administration has precluded the use of tacrolimus in dogs for most situations in veterinary
medicine and concerns regarding the carcinogenic potential of tacrolimus
applied to the
skin have recently been raised.
If the infection happens
to be in your dog's
skin, your veterinarian will
apply topical antibiotics and ointment and send you home with the
medicine and antibiotics.
The most effective way
to use herbs in treating
skin problems is
to apply Traditional Chinese Veterinary
Medicine (TCVM)
to diagnose the pet's energy pattern and treat that pattern and not the specific allergy symptoms.