what’s the difference between dog antibiotics human antibiotics?
Posted on July 20th, 2008 in Answers
E. P. asked:
can a human take dog antibiotics or vice versa?
can a human take dog antibiotics or vice versa?
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This post has 11 comments
July 22nd, 2008
Legally no you would not want to caught taking your dog’s prescription and you could do serious harm giving your dog your prescription.
Are some of the drugs the same drug - yes. But there is a big difference and dose and indication in humans vs. dog.
If you think your dog needs antibiotics you need to talk to your vet.
July 23rd, 2008
A dog tollerance to some humans medication is limited. However a human can and does a much bigger variety of antibiotics than dogs can.
There are some that can be taken by both. Only a vet can tell you which these are and dogs seems to have a much bigger intollerence to antibiotics than humans do. Allergic reaction are are always something to be on the look out for with both humans and dogs.
July 25th, 2008
ones for a dog and one is for a human duh
July 27th, 2008
certain ones can cross over however the purity and dosage make this inadvisable
July 30th, 2008
no they cant because all the ingredients are according to your weight. also some things animals cant digest so it has to be completely safe. also how would you know if its the right medication for the problem without seeking a veterinarian for your pet or a doctor for a person.
July 30th, 2008
no humans can’t take dog med. vice versa.
Dog antibiotics are for dogs and human antibiotics are for humans.
human med works for humans just like dogs med work for them.
August 2nd, 2008
NO. dont even think about it! every enzyme, hormone, antigen and chemical in a humans body is different to that of a dog..hence why we have VETS AND DOCs! … the only animals which are remotely similar are rats - hence why a lot of scientific studies are carried out on them - and some types of monkey.
August 6th, 2008
Take the antibiotics….. Fine with me…
DO NOT even think about giving the dog any human drugs.
But if you take the dogs drugs, I dont care. You are a human and your life is worth far less than your dogs.
August 8th, 2008
There is a big difference to human dosage to dog. They may be the same precription but it has different levels of med’s in them.
August 11th, 2008
Some prescriptions are the exact same drug, just different doses.
Growing up, we raised rabbits, and on occassion one would have an infection of some sort. The vet gave mom amoxicillian to give to them. Fast forward a few years, I ended up with an infection, my doctor prescribed amoxicillian. I flipped! Didn’t want to take rabbit medicine! lol. Turns out, it’s the same thing, just different doses.
You, for obvious reasons, don’t want to try and diagnose your dog’s illness on your own, for the same reason you don’t want to guess as to what drug or how much to give him, as you could do serious damage to your dog’s health.
August 12th, 2008
no difference
Human medications and factories that create them are held to a higher standard.
There isn’t really a dosage difference either contrary to what people are saying. The difference is weight. Antibiotics are dosed by weight. So 25lb dogs take less than what a 200lb human would, but the same amount that a 25lb 3yo would take.
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