piriton, really this many?

[NeverSayNever]

just had the vet out to my horse as he is having a major reaction to some kind of flying beastie. Ive been left with 2 boxes of piriton and vet said 30tabs twice a day for 5 days, then 20 for 5 days, then 10.

Vet has now gone and im thinking, does he really mean 60 tabs per day. I'l phone and check but I dont want them to think im completely stupid Has anyone else been told to give this much?

 

[Charlie007]

Obviously I don't know what your vet said but yes quite possible!! My horse was given tablets a few years back for a pollen allergy. Between the two boxes of different tablets I was given he was on about 50 a day reducing slowly over a couple of days.

 

[MissMistletoe]

Yes that sounds the right amount!.

My pony had to have oodles of them, but like you, I was able to reduce them after a few days.

I remember using a pessel and mortor to grind them down to mix in with her feed!

 

[hippo-horse]

That sounds like the dose I had to give my mare,she had nasty lumps everywhere above the knee.She couldn't have steriods because of the laminitis risk.They were sugar pills,so the greedy girl ate them fine.

 

[coss]

how many can the average human have per day/hour? then multiply that up by 8-10 and you've got horse weight so horse number of tabs. sounds right to me

 

[itsonlyme]

Yep, i agree
Had to laugh recently when i overheard somebody recommending 1 piriton tablet for a friends' horse. My cat has that much!

 

[Doncella]

Yes, mine was dosed with 50 a day.

 

[Wagtail]

Haha that explains why the 8 tablets I gave to my boy had zilch effect. Dose for a human is 1 tablet 3 times a day so I multiflied it up to 8 tablets but obviously he needed more!

I found that he ate them really well whole with a handful of alfa A and nuts and I didn't need to crumble them up.

 

[hhmmmm]

My 20kg dog is on 1 or 2 tabs three times a day for allergic skin disease. I've had a section A on 20 tabs twice a day then reducing in a similar fashion to you after a severe reaction when the idiot had a good roll and a long snooze in nettles.

 

[glenruby]

Antihistamines are not very effective in horses. Also Ucerax tends to be more effective than Piriton or Clarityn. And yes, dose rate sounds about right.