Bravecto annual injection

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Hi…can anyone give me an approximate cost for an annual Bravecto injection for a 30kg dog please? I don’t normally treat on a routine basis unless I see a problem but I have one dog that seems to get skin lesions for want of a better word that Bravecto inhibits. (Skin scrapes and biopsy done a few years ago but no clues resulting. Likewise no clues resulting from diet changes.). Local vets are not being helpful- just saying that it’s extortionate. Would like to do my own comparison with a yearly injection versus a year’s supply of tablets plus the obligatory (usually unnecessary) vet consult.

Any help appreciated.
 
We were told the price of yearly Bravecto injection would work out pretty much the same as 4 rounds of the chewables! So more than likely in the £200 range.

We have chosen to stick with the quarterly meds though.
 
it'll very much depend on vet practice so you would need to ring around and check unfortunately. It doesn't appear to be very popular in the uk but it is a very new addition to the market.
For ours its cheaper to use the injections v the oral chews every 3 months if your less then 15 kg, but more expensive for the larger breed dogs as its billed out per ml but I am not based in the uk.
If you aren't a client of the practice you would be adding a consult cost as well,as they cannot give a prescription drug without exam to a non client, so also take that into account.
 
We are not stocking it at our practice due to minimum orders and relatively short (3 month) shelf life after reconstituting the powder. Doses are tiny, and it's not thought enough clients would take it up to prevent a lot of wastage. Looking at the link below, the dose for a 10kg dog for example is 1ml. Given that you have to make up 15ml each time you broach a vial, that's a lot of wastage if nobody else wants it, hence lack of take up in the UK.
www.noahcompendium.co.uk

Clinical particulars - Bravecto® 150 mg/ml powder and solvent for suspension for injection for dogs (NI)

www.noahcompendium.co.uk www.noahcompendium.co.uk
 
Landcruiser said:
We are not stocking it at our practice due to minimum orders and relatively short (3 month) shelf life after reconstituting the powder. Doses are tiny, and it's not thought enough clients would take it up to prevent a lot of wastage. Looking at the link below, the dose for a 10kg dog for example is 1ml. Given that you have to make up 15ml each time you broach a vial, that's a lot of wastage if nobody else wants it, hence lack of take up in the UK.
www.noahcompendium.co.uk

Clinical particulars - Bravecto® 150 mg/ml powder and solvent for suspension for injection for dogs (NI)

www.noahcompendium.co.uk www.noahcompendium.co.uk
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Its 140kg of dog per vial (you don't use all the diluent) - I just try to bunch client appointments who will use it. I went through 3 bottles the week it was released here!
 
I was hoping to find a thread on this, sorry for resurrecting an old one - we’re currently in France and the vet that did our ‘return to UK’ appts for the savages this morning mentioned it to us.

It sounds like it’s fairly widely used on the continent now and I really like the idea of them being covered year round. Do we think the uptake is likely to increase as more people know about it? I wasn’t actually aware of its existence until today.
 
I've got 2 cohorts on it now lined up to 2 months that we buy it in and open vials a year. Uptake has been good from owners who are in tick prone areas. Between this and the new Bravecto Triuno I'm using little else
 
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