#furosemide

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is it effective to use Furosemide for post-spay seroma in dogs or cats?

GV here.

No. Furosemide is a powerful diuretic designed to reduce overall total blood volume and/or induce urine production in urgent or emergent scenarios such as congestive heart failure, certain types of shock including anaphylactic, certain severe edemas, and oliguric or anuric kidney failure. It's never the *only* thing you do, either. In each of those scenarios you would be throwing a book of treatments at the animal. Also, furosemide runs the risk of being quite damaging to the kidneys even when used properly and is not designed to be used to stop normal, non-life-threatening inflammatory processes. Just getting rid of the fluid in a post-spay/post-surgical seroma is not going to get rid of any specific discomfort and definitely not a life-threatening problem, nor will it address the underlying issue (typically a combination of the body's reaction to the suture + excessive movement +/- infection).

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So my dumb bad luck charm scared the ever living crap out of me. Over the last couple of weeks of me working over time Gaigax’s been acting really sluggish. Monday to Tuesday he stopped eating completely and managed to take him into the vet. Left picture is an xray from Tuesday. Lungs where both a 1/4 of the size that they where supposed to be, and heavily cloudy. He had so much liquid surrounding them that all he could do was take short immediate breaths. The vet took a sample and sent it to a pathologist to check, the doctor immediately thinking that it was cancer, due to the large bruise he had on his stomach. Waited a full three days, with him hospitalized over night, me telling the vet to give him an IV to keep his fluids up while we waited for the results. She also gave him a type of medication, Furosemide, that would slowly help drain the extra fluid out of his lungs/body. Waiting for the test results almost killed me. I can’t tell you how hard it is trying to prep yourself to put an animal down. Realistically I knew that I couldn’t spend more than a $1000 on him; but it tears me up having to think of my baby like totalling out a car.. When the test results came back, the doctor said that they where “Better than she expected” but still wanted me to come in and sit down and come up with a game plan for treatment. Pathologist came back and found no bacterial or cancer cells in the fluid. In fact she gave me a whole list of about 20 different things that it MIGHT be, but long story short have no idea what caused it. The Furosemide has taken his lungs back to about 5/8th clear, (vet took a second xray to make sure how his progress was going on the medication, and didn’t charge me for it. Thusly, I don’t have the second picture.) Just watching him closely, and keeping him on the medication for another week max to see how it goes.

He’s already much more alert, talking, purring, and drinking water. He hasn’t found the litter box on his own (I’ve had to pick him up and drop him in it like ‘oh yeah, peeing is a thing :D’) and he’s turning his nose up to most solid foods right now. I’ve been able to force feed a few pieces of tuna and salmon into his cheek before he chews on his own and swallows. I went and even made some home made cat food out of fish rice and carrots to have something easy on his stomach. He was on a liquid diet for 5 days thou, so I think he needs some time to get used to solids again.. Spent closer to $680 so far. Thinking that 100% of my tax return is going towards beating the widow maker for him. #notcancer. That’s all I care about right now, and that I have a little more time with him.

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This study assessed the diuretic potential of methanolic extract of Hydrocotyle vulgaris in albino mice after oral administration. Methanolic extract of H. vulgaris (40 and 20mg/kg) and the reference drug, Furosemide (20mg/kg) were administered intraperitoneally using the modified Lipschitz method. All animals were pretreated with saline before commencing the experiment. Their urine output and electrolyte changes were quantitated at several intervals of time after the dose of 5 hours and after 24 hours. The urine output increased significantly in Furosemide and in both 40 and 20mg/kg extracts (p

[scholarshipportal]

(via Loop Diuretics - Furosemide & Bumetanide Uses, Mechanism & Side Effects)

[robotarmsapts]

Important warning about the Furosemide/Lasix medication.

Some of you know I was in a coma from the end of May until close to two weeks later, and other health stuff went bad while I was there, but that’s another post. I had a seizure that knocked me into one, and while I did get an epilepsy diagnosis(I was having silent seizures long before I was ever on this pill), what caused the seizure that day was brought on by a pill called Furosemide- the generic for Lasix. It also comes in liquid, mine was the pill form.

I have documented issues with my electrolytes and such, but was never warned that Furosemide can tank that bad enough to put you in a coma. It is an extreme side-effect that doesn’t happen to everyone, but it did to me, and I want to warn others to be safe. It can also cause regular seizures in some.

For me, the lower dosages stopped working and it had to be upped to 80mg, but I didn’t take it every day, only as needed and never more than one. I’m on my legs a lot and have issues with them retaining fluid and swelling.

It’s a water-pill with many things it can be prescribed for, but if you’re on it, please be careful and drink some powerade or other electrolyte drink to keep it up. I’m still messed up from the coma time and not fully recovered from it, made alot of progress though. I don’t want anyone else to go through what I did and am making this warning to hopefully help others.

Please, be safe, research your medications and talk to your doctor(s).

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

The Scientific Research Notes of S. Sunkavally (years: 2002-2011).

2606-2608.

[medicomunicare]

Antibiotic resistance by common medications: NAMely, ibuprofen and paracetamol rank at the top

The emergence and spread of antimicrobial-resistant organisms and resistance genes are a significant public health threat. In 2019, 4.95 million deaths worldwide were linked to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It occurs when microbial organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fung and parasites, no longer respond to antimicrobial medicines. Antimicrobials, such as antibiotics, antiparasitics,…

Antibiotic resistance by common medications: NAMely, ibuprofen and paracetamol rank at the top

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I actually don’t know what we’re going to do if my pressure is truly genuinely rising again. The best we could do is increase my diamox slowly. By very small amounts. 1500 mg of diamox a day was turning my blood acidic but if 1125 mg of diamox AND 20 mg if furosemide isn’t enough anymore then we don’t have much margin for error.

Even at my sickest, I’ve been told I don’t meet traditional criteria for a shunt because of the bizarre way my symptoms manifest. It would be hard to find someone willing to take a chance on me, and a shunt isn’t a decision to be made lightly to begin with