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Has anybody seen any evidence that Orbifloxacin is safer than Enrofloxacin ? If you could refer me to a web site showing the studies that would be even better. I believe the FDA has a website where adverse reactions are reported, but I'm sorry I don't have a link. Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm |
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Has anybody seen any evidence that Orbifloxacin is safer than Enrofloxacin ? If you could refer me to a web site showing the studies that would be even better. I believe the FDA has a website where adverse reactions are reported, but I'm sorry I don't have a link. Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm |
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In article . net,
wrote: Alison Perera wrote: wrote: I asked him if Orbifloxacin (recommended by Phil) is safer but he said that there are not enough statistics to show that it is safer. He said there are a lot more statistics on Enrofloxacin because it's been used on millions of cats during the past 10 years. So I told him that I wanted to think about it for a few days. Another fluoroquinolone is Zeniquin, which has been in use on cats long enough (perhaps) to satisfy your vet. It is pretty expensive though. I would also be wary of Baytril, and I am disappointed with your vet's resistance to your concerns. -Alison in OH My vet doesn't have Orbifloxacin in stock but I just called an animal hospital in the area and found that they have it (but the technician I talked to had never heard of Zeniquin). Yngver is right, there's the issue of the organism's susceptibility to the specific drug that could be influencing your vet's desire to use that particular antibiotic. However, it only takes one dose of Baytril to blind a cat. The vet I worked with used it on two animals while I was there, both with bated breath--and both with excellent results against infections that were resistant to everything else. Clearly, YMMV. Zeniquin, or marbofloxacin, is produced by Pfizer. See http://www.zeniquin.com/. I'm not making this stuff up. -Alison in OH |
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In article . net,
wrote: Alison Perera wrote: wrote: I asked him if Orbifloxacin (recommended by Phil) is safer but he said that there are not enough statistics to show that it is safer. He said there are a lot more statistics on Enrofloxacin because it's been used on millions of cats during the past 10 years. So I told him that I wanted to think about it for a few days. Another fluoroquinolone is Zeniquin, which has been in use on cats long enough (perhaps) to satisfy your vet. It is pretty expensive though. I would also be wary of Baytril, and I am disappointed with your vet's resistance to your concerns. -Alison in OH My vet doesn't have Orbifloxacin in stock but I just called an animal hospital in the area and found that they have it (but the technician I talked to had never heard of Zeniquin). Yngver is right, there's the issue of the organism's susceptibility to the specific drug that could be influencing your vet's desire to use that particular antibiotic. However, it only takes one dose of Baytril to blind a cat. The vet I worked with used it on two animals while I was there, both with bated breath--and both with excellent results against infections that were resistant to everything else. Clearly, YMMV. Zeniquin, or marbofloxacin, is produced by Pfizer. See http://www.zeniquin.com/. I'm not making this stuff up. -Alison in OH |
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In article . net,
wrote: Alison Perera wrote: wrote: I asked him if Orbifloxacin (recommended by Phil) is safer but he said that there are not enough statistics to show that it is safer. He said there are a lot more statistics on Enrofloxacin because it's been used on millions of cats during the past 10 years. So I told him that I wanted to think about it for a few days. Another fluoroquinolone is Zeniquin, which has been in use on cats long enough (perhaps) to satisfy your vet. It is pretty expensive though. I would also be wary of Baytril, and I am disappointed with your vet's resistance to your concerns. -Alison in OH My vet doesn't have Orbifloxacin in stock but I just called an animal hospital in the area and found that they have it (but the technician I talked to had never heard of Zeniquin). Yngver is right, there's the issue of the organism's susceptibility to the specific drug that could be influencing your vet's desire to use that particular antibiotic. However, it only takes one dose of Baytril to blind a cat. The vet I worked with used it on two animals while I was there, both with bated breath--and both with excellent results against infections that were resistant to everything else. Clearly, YMMV. Zeniquin, or marbofloxacin, is produced by Pfizer. See http://www.zeniquin.com/. I'm not making this stuff up. -Alison in OH |
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Alison Perera wrote: wrote: Alison Perera wrote: wrote: I asked him if Orbifloxacin (recommended by Phil) is safer but he said that there are not enough statistics to show that it is safer. He said there are a lot more statistics on Enrofloxacin because it's been used on millions of cats during the past 10 years. So I told him that I wanted to think about it for a few days. Another fluoroquinolone is Zeniquin, which has been in use on cats long enough (perhaps) to satisfy your vet. It is pretty expensive though. I would also be wary of Baytril, and I am disappointed with your vet's resistance to your concerns. -Alison in OH My vet doesn't have Orbifloxacin in stock but I just called an animal hospital in the area and found that they have it (but the technician I talked to had never heard of Zeniquin). Yngver is right, there's the issue of the organism's susceptibility to the specific drug that could be influencing your vet's desire to use that particular antibiotic. However, it only takes one dose of Baytril to blind a cat. The vet I worked with used it on two animals while I was there, both with bated breath--and both with excellent results against infections that were resistant to everything else. Clearly, YMMV. Zeniquin, or marbofloxacin, is produced by Pfizer. See http://www.zeniquin.com/. I'm not making this stuff up. -Alison in OH As stated earlier the urine culture results came back negative. My vet is assuming that she has a kidney infection but doesn't know what kind of organism it is (if it's really an infection). So it may not be easy to say if enrofloxacin or Orbifloxacin will work better in this case. Thanks again for the info. |
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Alison Perera wrote: wrote: Alison Perera wrote: wrote: I asked him if Orbifloxacin (recommended by Phil) is safer but he said that there are not enough statistics to show that it is safer. He said there are a lot more statistics on Enrofloxacin because it's been used on millions of cats during the past 10 years. So I told him that I wanted to think about it for a few days. Another fluoroquinolone is Zeniquin, which has been in use on cats long enough (perhaps) to satisfy your vet. It is pretty expensive though. I would also be wary of Baytril, and I am disappointed with your vet's resistance to your concerns. -Alison in OH My vet doesn't have Orbifloxacin in stock but I just called an animal hospital in the area and found that they have it (but the technician I talked to had never heard of Zeniquin). Yngver is right, there's the issue of the organism's susceptibility to the specific drug that could be influencing your vet's desire to use that particular antibiotic. However, it only takes one dose of Baytril to blind a cat. The vet I worked with used it on two animals while I was there, both with bated breath--and both with excellent results against infections that were resistant to everything else. Clearly, YMMV. Zeniquin, or marbofloxacin, is produced by Pfizer. See http://www.zeniquin.com/. I'm not making this stuff up. -Alison in OH As stated earlier the urine culture results came back negative. My vet is assuming that she has a kidney infection but doesn't know what kind of organism it is (if it's really an infection). So it may not be easy to say if enrofloxacin or Orbifloxacin will work better in this case. Thanks again for the info. |
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Alison Perera wrote: wrote: Alison Perera wrote: wrote: I asked him if Orbifloxacin (recommended by Phil) is safer but he said that there are not enough statistics to show that it is safer. He said there are a lot more statistics on Enrofloxacin because it's been used on millions of cats during the past 10 years. So I told him that I wanted to think about it for a few days. Another fluoroquinolone is Zeniquin, which has been in use on cats long enough (perhaps) to satisfy your vet. It is pretty expensive though. I would also be wary of Baytril, and I am disappointed with your vet's resistance to your concerns. -Alison in OH My vet doesn't have Orbifloxacin in stock but I just called an animal hospital in the area and found that they have it (but the technician I talked to had never heard of Zeniquin). Yngver is right, there's the issue of the organism's susceptibility to the specific drug that could be influencing your vet's desire to use that particular antibiotic. However, it only takes one dose of Baytril to blind a cat. The vet I worked with used it on two animals while I was there, both with bated breath--and both with excellent results against infections that were resistant to everything else. Clearly, YMMV. Zeniquin, or marbofloxacin, is produced by Pfizer. See http://www.zeniquin.com/. I'm not making this stuff up. -Alison in OH As stated earlier the urine culture results came back negative. My vet is assuming that she has a kidney infection but doesn't know what kind of organism it is (if it's really an infection). So it may not be easy to say if enrofloxacin or Orbifloxacin will work better in this case. Thanks again for the info. |
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As stated earlier the urine culture results came back negative. My vet is assuming that she has a kidney infection but doesn't know what kind of organism it is (if it's really an infection). So it may not be easy to say if enrofloxacin or Orbifloxacin will work better in this case. Thanks again for the info. I should add that in my case, my cat was clearly very sick and it wouldn't have been prudent to waffle about whether to switch her from Baytril to Orbax when she had not responded to other antibiotics prior to administering Baytil. In your case, it's not even clear that your cat has an infection, correct? The evidence was the blood in the urine sample, but is there any other sign of infection? My cat was running a very high fever. Here are some references you can look at: http://www.vetmedcenter.com/professi...688&doctype=ED http://www.tufts.edu/vet/vet_common/..._march2003.pdf This second one from Tufts may have the info you are looking for. It describes studies designed to determine a correlation between dosage of Baytril and Orbax and retinal degeneration in cats. While both drugs produced incidences of blindness at high dosages, the mfr of Orbax determined the drug to be safe at a dosage of 15 mg/kg per day (although one cat did develop retinal degeneration on this dosage), while Bayer's toxicity test of Baytril found no incidence of retinal damage at the currently recommended max dosage of 5 mg/kg per day. You may want to show this article to your vet, if you still want to argue the case with him. |
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