My Vet has been complaining about the price of Rx eye meds for awhile and now that Terramycin is back you can use that BUT…he warns to be sure that it is no where near the exp date. He said there are issues with it when it expires or is close.
Heard the same from my vet in April on barn day. Supposedly there is only one manufacturer so I guess they can charge whatever they want. It seems like a lot of equine products, like some wormers for example, have changed manufacturers or distributors and have been either unavailable and/or have shot up in price. I wish I was a rich as these guys think I am.
Nationally we are having huge shortage issues with many many drugs: http://www.ashp.org/DrugShortages/Current/. Check out that gigantic list. The drug companies that make the drugs that are available are sometimes hiking up the prices because well…they can. It has reached a crisis point in human medicine and there have been many articles citing patient deaths due to med errors b/c of changing out meds due to the shortage or inability to get medications due to the shortages (like - hey, no more chemotherapy - imagine telling the family of a child that you don’t have the best drug available to treat their cancer!).
I would assume that vets are having the same issues since many drug companies make human and vet medicines. I will say from the human side it has been a very stressful and scary year trying to manage without harming anyone.
Not sure if this helps but might point you all in the direction of the issue your vets may be having.
Also: never put anything in the eyes that is not made for the eyes. Products for the eyes should be sterile and cannot have any particulate matter as you could risk scratching the cornea. Items for the skin do not have to be nearly so sterile. So it’s never safe to assume you can swap from topical to ophthalmic without checking with a vet. The same is not true the other way. Anything for the eyes could technically go other places without harm.
Right.
I discussed this with several people in human medicine and they are having major issues with variety of drugs being backordered…
The explanation I got from probing all the different people was that there were possibilities of contamination and more regulation that was occurring.
Now I didn’t verify the information, but considering the range of medication and the origin of manufacture of most of them, it makes sense to me…
No, it’s true starrunner. Several of the largest generic drug manufacturers (Hospira being a biggie) were found to have contamination in all their products. Things like glass particles in IV solutions or bacteria. So they had to stop production.
If you click on the actual drug names in the ASHP link I posted they give some explanation of why the drug is recalled. The companies aren’t required to say why though - so most are choosing not to!
Last I checked, the generic for Polysporin (bacitracin/polymyxin B) was still dirt cheap for the human stuff, compared to the outrageous price for the generic Neosporin (bacitracin/neomycin/polymyxin). I haven’t checked the price in a month or so, though.
Rockfordbuckeye, it’s frightening, and vets are definitely having the same problems. At the vet board I’m on, it seems like there’s always a new drug that’s having supply issues. Many things vets use are in fact the human product, so many shortages - propofol, glycopyrrolate, metoclopramide, doxorubicin, etc. ad nauseam - affect both sides. It’s hardest for the small clinics because they tend not to have a lot on the shelf at one time and are often at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to getting limited supplies. Preferentially filling human orders over vet orders, though, is how it should be IMO.
I had not seen that list before, and it’s appalling when you see it laid out like that. It’s scary just how fragile our drug supply system is, and how the shortage of one drug can lead to increased demand for another drug, leading to shortages of the second drug (e.g., propofol and other anesthesia drugs). The drug companies have calibrated manufacturing so there is just enough capacity to meet demand, and if anything happens then the whole stack of cards collapses. If a drug is not profitable enough, they stop making it altogether, e.g., Teva and propofol, and everybody and sodium thiopental.
Ay, it has been a horrible year. I am lucky to be at a very large hospital and so we have been mostly able to maintain supply of what we need or to at least be able to have enough supply to triage it to the most critical patients. But there have been many 3pm Friday pages to me saying “the whole hospital is out of calcium gluconate IV” or “We are completely out of protein for IV nutrition” where I think :eek: and then have to come up with a plan for how we are going to manage until we are able to get it in again.
It does seem like the drugs used in critical care are the most affected (pain, sedation, neuromuscular blockers, IV pressors, IV electrolytes) but the list is staggering!
Anyway, hope you all find the list useful and just know that we are all in the same boat. :no:
There is also Neosporin Opthalmic drops available; http://www.kingpharm.com/products/product_document.cfm?brand_name=Neosporin&product_specific_name=Ophthalmic%20Solution%20Sterile&document_type_code=PI
You can also thank/blame mergers/takeovers among pharmaceutical companies for the shortages.
why don’t you try to use ampicillin 500mg or augmentin for treatment? i have successed.
you could find it’s infomation on gg. or you could buy it with cheapest in here: https://storeviet.com/Antibiotic
it’s best and cheapeast price
good luck friend
A thread got resurrected from 6 years ago. I am not clicking on that link- not from a newbie and the bad grammar/spelling.
