Sentences with word «phenobarbital»

Common side effects of phenobarbital in dogs include drowsiness, agitation, increased appetite, increased thirst and increased urination.

When unacceptable side effects develop with phenobarbital use, the dose may be substantially cut back or even discontinued.

If the liver is larger than normal, but causing no pain it could be Cushing's disease, diabetes or from phenobarbital use.

I have a 7 year old bullmastiff that was recently put on phenobarbital for seizures.

According to veterinarian Dr. Mike Richards, the common side effects of phenobarbital in dogs should disappear in three to four weeks, once the dog's body has adjusted to the medication.

Some dogs and cats rely on their daily phenobarbital dose to control serious seizures.

Dogs and cats receiving phenobarbital need to have their blood monitored periodically for signs of liver disease.

Phenobarbital blood levels need to be periodically monitored as higher levels are associated with the development of liver failure.

The compound, since supplanted by phenobarbital and other treatments with fewer side effects, stopped seizures in about a quarter of those who took it and lessened them in another 43 percent of patients.

Potassium bromide is used with phenobarbital if it does not control the seizures on its own.

Van Meervenne S, Peterson M, Svensson M, Van Ham L, Save S: Serum thyroid function tests in cats on phenobarbital therapy.

When Phenobarbital stopped working, Blake his seizures became more frequent and severe.

For dogs that can not tolerate Phenobarbital or potassium bromide, Zonisamide may be a viable option.

Conventional treatment calls for the use of anticonvulsants like phenobarbital as well as potassium bromide, although a diazepam can be given for status epilepticus to rapidly halting the seizure.

Blood tests for certain seizure medications including phenobarbital will need to be conducted every 2 - 4 weeks until a proper dose is determined and then every 6 - 12 months to ensure safety and effectiveness.

In order to prevent long - term side effects from phenobarbital in dogs, Dr. Richards recommends regular blood tests to check liver and kidney functions.

He is being treated as an epileptic with Phenobarbital medication and his seizures are well controlled.

Studies have shown improvements ranging from between 44 - 83 % in seizure control for epileptic dogs previously treated with phenobarbital alone.

More than 60 percent of dogs with idiopathic epilepsy can have their symptoms controlled using phenobarbital at therapeutic dosages.

Dr. Powers completed a clinical drug safety trial for the use of Advantage Multi for Cats (Bayer) in domestic ferrets, and has conducted several other research studies while at Carolina Veterinary Specialists, including an investigation into the metabolism of the anticonvulsant drug phenobarbital in African grey parrots and ongoing studies investigating a newly characterized intestinal parasite of cockatiels, Spironucleus meleagridis.

Dogs given phenobarbital require frequent liver tests because this drug is especially toxic to your dog's liver.

It is important not to discontinue phenobarbital cold turkey as doing so may precipitate severe seizures.

(T4 could be low if the pet is already taking phenobarbital [ref]-RRB- If your veterinarian is reasonably certain of the diagnosis at that point, the vet might wait to see if the seizures return or begin the pet on an anti-epileptic medication.

Approximately 15 percent of epileptic dogs on phenobarbital did not respond and needed a different treatment plan.

Pets that were put on long term phenobarbital because they had one or two seizures, little laboratory and physical work ups and no family history of the problem probably shouldn't be on it at all.

Your veterinarian may have recommended giving oral valium, rectal valium or oral Phenobarbital if your dog has a seizure.

Dogs that are seizure free for 1 year or longer are candidates for Phenobarbital withdrawal.

This may be useful in cases where your dog's seizures are not adequately controlled by taking Phenobarbital or potassium bromide alone or combined.

This is just a summary of information about phenobarbital.

If phenobarbital needs to be discontinued, it should be withdrawn slowly by gradually decreasing the dosage over a period of months.

Phenobarbital works well in both dogs and cats.

Morris Animal Foundation: Martin J Fettman, DVM, Colorado State University is initiating a two year study «Dietary Effects on Phenobarbital Pharmacokinetics in Canine Epilepsy.»

In many cases phenobarbital can be tapered off completely without seizure recurrence.

That same year, German psychiatrist and neurologist Alfred Hauptmann administered phenobarbital to his epileptic patients to enable them (and him) to sleep through the night.

Participants at the annual meetings voted for the winner: Jillian Ross of CXR Biosciences in Dundee, who presented her poster entitled: «Human constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) supports the hypertrophic but not the hyperplastic response to the murine non-genotoxic carcinogen phenobarbital in vivo».

In more severe cases of seizures dogs are often hospitalized to receive intravenous loading doses of phenobarbital since it otherwise may take up to 2 weeks to reach a steady concentration in the bloodstream.

Some lab test changes are associated with phenobarbital usage and need to be recognized as such.

he's been on phenobarbital + zonasimide since, but the seizures are still happening every 1 - 2 weeks, and every time it happens they're in clusters.

When your pet is first put onto this drug, blood samples to measure phenobarbital levels will be taken every two to four weeks until the most appropriate dosage is determined.

We tried phenobarbital and Darla did not do well with it.