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Martin McDowell — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:29:42 GMT

[quote user="Andrew Mellor"]

Does anyone use ketaconazole in conjuction with atopica I have used it for years as it dramatically lengthens the atopica half life in the body thus often only needing dosing on 3-4 day intervals - especially useful for anal furunculosis in those huge gsd's needing high doses for 10-12 weeks. does anyone know if any other drugs or specifically antifungals have the same property?[/quote]

Hi Andrew

My colleagues and myself have used this protocol before and it worked fine. Last time I used it was for a GSD with anal furunculosis as well.

Hope everything is fine at your practice and give my regards to Carlos

Martin

Re: Nizoral withdrawn

Rob Loxley — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:19:20 GMT

[quote user="Andrew Kent"]itraconazole (sporanox) for some time for this reason. The only benefit of ketoconazole was cost[/quote]

Generic itraconazole is much cheaper than Sporanox; obviously both down the cascade...

Re: Nizoral withdrawn

Martin Atkinson — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:23:01 GMT

[quote user="Andrew Mellor"]Does anyone use ketaconazole in conjuction with atopica I have used it for years as it dramatically lengthens the atopica half life in the body thus often only needing dosing on 3-4 day intervals......[/quote] I haven't but did once contemplate if but decided that the cost of the ketoconazole and the risk of hepatoxicity didn't justify the (relatively) small reduction in cost with the savings on Atopica. At that time I was aware that it could reduce the dose of Atopica by up to 50% but not 75%

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Andrew Mellor — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:47:33 GMT

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Andrew Kent — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 15:13:59 GMT

[quote user="Arlo Guthrie"]Andy, I've moved 1 of your replies from the other nizoral thread to this one, but delete both the anonymous post and your reply to it. Sorry, because you'd responded at length to the anon post, but people have to realise that the anon account is ONLY for people seeking help for sensitive problems, and NOT for airing opinions which they should stand behind. Anon posts that aren't seeking help will be deleted, together with any replies to them.

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no problem Arlo - I agree with the policy entirely!

Re: Nizoral withdrawn

Arlo Guthrie — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 09:02:11 GMT

Andy, I've moved 1 of your replies from the other nizoral thread to this one, but delete both the anonymous post and your reply to it. Sorry, because you'd responded at length to the anon post, but people have to realise that the anon account is ONLY for people seeking help for sensitive problems, and NOT for airing opinions which they should stand behind. Anon posts that aren't seeking help will be deleted, together with any replies to them.

Re: Nizoral withdrawn

Andrew Kent — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 08:55:38 GMT

We have been using itraconazole (sporanox) for some time for this reason. The only benefit of ketoconazole was cost. Andy

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Stephen Courtney — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 23:35:50 GMT

Itraconazole is a much safer product and easily available - itrafungol for cats and small dogs, and human 100mg capsules for larger dogs under the cascade

does the same job on malasezia and those funny mycetomas cats sometimes get.

Re: Nizoral withdrawn

Mark Holmes — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 19:43:50 GMT

That will be a blow