Eighteen board - certified veterinary dermatologists in the United States enrolled a total of 299 dogs 1 year of age or older to
receive APOQUEL or excipient - matched placebo at a dose of 0.4 - 0.6 mg / kg twice - daily for 14 days, and then once - daily at the same dose for up to 112 days.
Dogs
receiving Apoquel should be monitored for the development of infections, including demodicosis and neoplasia.
Not exact matches
APOQUEL has not been tested in dogs
receiving some medications including some commonly used to treat skin conditions such as corticosteroids and cyclosporines.
Jennifer Schissler Pendergraft, DVM, MS, DACVD, and co-investigator Andrew Simpson, DVM, of Colorado State University James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital, will
receive a grant for their project, «Frequency of urinary tract infection in dogs treated with oclacitinib (
APOQUEL) for cutaneous hypersensitivity: a prospective study.»
Certain medications the dog might be
receiving concurrently (spinosad / Comfortis ®, antifungals medications like itraconazole and ketoconazole, certain antibiotics, corticosteroids,
Apoquel ® / oclacitinib, etc.) can make a bad reaction to the avermectins more likely You can read more on the subject of demodectic mange treatment here, here, here and here.