URGENT!!! PLEASE READ, THIS COULD SAVE YOUR DOG'S LIFE!
My 8 year old mini schnauzer went in for dental surgery to remove
some rotten teeth and deal with a bad gum infection. She was
prescribed antibiotics a week prior to surgery. Clinacin 75mg 2
times daily. She is a 10 pound dog. According to the Clinacin
website, she should be taking 25mg tablets twice daily for a total
of 50mg per day, NOT 75mg for a total of 150mg that she was. As a
result, after surgery, she started having seizures. She had a total
of 8 seizures over a 24hour period. They seemed to come almost
every 4 hours. After the first seizure I stopped the antibiotic
intake. I believe, as does her vet, that the seizures were
triggered from a large dosage of antibiotics and a combination of
the anesthetic and morphine in her system. Her liver and kidney went
into overtime trying to clean out the toxins. The vet prescribed
Phenobarbital to control the seizures, this was about 25 hours
after they first started, however I was concerned that this would
only contribute to her already over worked organs so I never gave
her any. After about 25 hours from the first seizure, they stopped.
She had never had any health troubles in her life to this point. It
has been almost 5 days since her last seizure. The Vet said just
give it time for all the meds to work out of her system and now she
is getting back to her normal self, not 100 percent yet but getting
there.
Thank you to all who have put their experiences onto the internet,
it brought us help & comfort at 3 am when we were going through the
worst weekend of our lives.
The moral of this story is this: Please research any drugs that are
prescribed to your fur child. Vets aren't perfect either, they make
mistakes. Thankfully this one did not cost us our "kid".
My 8 year old mini schnauzer went in for dental surgery to remove
some rotten teeth and deal with a bad gum infection. She was
prescribed antibiotics a week prior to surgery. Clinacin 75mg 2
times daily. She is a 10 pound dog. According to the Clinacin
website, she should be taking 25mg tablets twice daily for a total
of 50mg per day, NOT 75mg for a total of 150mg that she was. As a
result, after surgery, she started having seizures. She had a total
of 8 seizures over a 24hour period. They seemed to come almost
every 4 hours. After the first seizure I stopped the antibiotic
intake. I believe, as does her vet, that the seizures were
triggered from a large dosage of antibiotics and a combination of
the anesthetic and morphine in her system. Her liver and kidney went
into overtime trying to clean out the toxins. The vet prescribed
Phenobarbital to control the seizures, this was about 25 hours
after they first started, however I was concerned that this would
only contribute to her already over worked organs so I never gave
her any. After about 25 hours from the first seizure, they stopped.
She had never had any health troubles in her life to this point. It
has been almost 5 days since her last seizure. The Vet said just
give it time for all the meds to work out of her system and now she
is getting back to her normal self, not 100 percent yet but getting
there.
Thank you to all who have put their experiences onto the internet,
it brought us help & comfort at 3 am when we were going through the
worst weekend of our lives.
The moral of this story is this: Please research any drugs that are
prescribed to your fur child. Vets aren't perfect either, they make
mistakes. Thankfully this one did not cost us our "kid".
