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Published: Tue, 3 Mar 2009
Description: Giving Fido his medicine can be a daunting task, but now there are flavored meds to make the process easier
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" You love your pets you probably consider them one of the family but when your pets get sick and it's time to give them medicine it can be a struggle. We're just. There a Friday we would be having a bit of the total war. That's the situation dale Dobson found herself that it would she was sold this big guy named baby would need gall bladder medication for the rest of his life. The thought of having to give medicine on a daily basis was pretty daunting. But this finicky kiddies medication is now going down a lot easier it's a customized formula flavored with chicken. Runs -- or whatever dale gets her cats medication here at cherries pharmacy on the upper east side of Manhattan they usually specialize in custom prescriptions for kids. But pharmacist Charles to push -- he says doing this for pets is not such a stretch. Pets there -- finicky as children if not more. The process is called com pounding it's where a specialized formulation of -- medication is created to fit the needs of the patients it's a lot like being trapped a -- in the kitchen first the ingredients are -- then the flavors are added for pets they have flavors like chicken beef or liver."
" We keep them and as a plug back because if you smell liver it's not a -- appetizing smell -- TV formulated when threat flavoring. It can work the same way yes the equivalent dosage in tablet form equals the one we make an electric."
" That's doctor Alison Abramson is a veterinarian in Manhattan she prescribes these compounds the medications to at least one pet patients a day."
" One of the biggest challenges we have a better in medicine as client compliance. And if it makes it easy for client to give a medication and that makes our job much easier and it makes the pat much easier to treat. Doctor -- the Greek Fox News. "
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