ACP .......

Because if a cat falls on you it won't hurt, but if a horse does it will kill you?
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Prob to do with the dosage of the pill TBH.
 
i might be wrong, but i think its got something to do with horses entering the foodchain and the "make-up" of ACP's.....
 
I have a question...if it's not licenced, how come I was able to phone my vet last year, ask for ACP and get sent a packet of 12 tablets in the post (and be told to use the whole lot for one clipping session rather than half a tube of Sedalin)?
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I also think it has something to do with how horses metobolise ACP, it is part of the anti-histamine family and has a particularly potent sedating effect on horses. Whilst it is not licenced (this is pharmaceutical company registration and legality policies rather than safety issues) it's value for sedating horses means that vets will prescribe it. Plus the effect of ACP is variable between different horses.

I was told by my vet that ACP tablets are meant to be more effective than sedalin paste (probably differences in the concentration of the active ingredient).
 
ACP or Acetyl Promazine to give its full name is a anxiolytic which has a mild sedative action in horses. It is not an anti-histamine and in fact belongs to a group of drugs called the Phenothiazines. Sedalin gel or Sedazine paste both contain ACP,(the same ACP found in tablets, working by the same mechanism of action) but it is merely in a different formulation. ACP is licensed in horses but the licensed forms are Sedalin or Sedazine. Although it has never been tested in court it is my opinion that using ACP tablets in horses is probably illegal, one would need to provide a convincing reason to step outside the "cascade" and I can't think of one. It is still common place for vets to provide ACP tablets, done as a cost saving exercise, but sadly in this increasingly litigious age this will become less common.
 
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ACP or Acetyl Promazine to give its full name is a anxiolytic which has a mild sedative action in horses. It is not an anti-histamine and in fact belongs to a group of drugs called the Phenothiazines.

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Horace Hayes definitely says it's an antihistamine (I'm a geek and highlighted it when I had a horse with dreadful hayfever
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) although, as DrSpring says, it's not actually used as such in horses.
 
only time i ever used them was when my foal was PTS following a bad accident and her mum bracken needed something to take the edge off and settle her. the vet was out for bracken and precribed them for a week it helped bracken though as she was upset, pacing, screaming etc. after she had taken them she calmed down a bit
 
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