1. Over-the-counter drug toxcities
in companion animals
Sandra Siren
VM 1

2. What is over-the-counter drugs?
• They are medications, which are usual and
almost all people use them. Drugs like
vitamins, diet tablets and analgesics.

3. Why they are toxcical for animals?
• Because this medications differs starkly in
humans and animals. If people take them right
they are safe, but for animals they are
poisoning.

4. Where are non-prescription drugs?
• Usually all sorts of drugs can de founded in
bedroom. The nightsand is the typical place of
most drugs.
• Also the dangerous place is basement, where
animals left alone frequently. There are toxical
substants like colours, ant traps or detergents.

5. How the toxical substants preserve?
• All medications shoud be kept in pet-proof, up
and away from the pets, latched medicine
cabinets and in original containers.

6. Which problems cause poisoning?
• The most common clinical signs of poisoning is
castrointestinal toxity or haemorrhagic castric
lesions. Also the nausea, womiting, abdominal
pain and renal comprise.
• When one or more these or similar symptoms
are appeared, the owner has go in clinic
immediately.

7. Thanks for attention!