Keep your animals comfortable and calm with Acepromazine Maleate Injection. This fast-acting formula helps ensure your pets remain relaxed during stressful situations, this pet sedative injection comes as a neuroleptic agent and central nervous system depressant, allowing ample tranquilization of animals. Use this injection for its sedative properties, as well as preanesthetic treatment. Includes a 10 mg/mL strength Acepromazine injection for pets in a 50 mL vial.How it Works

Acepromazine Maleate Injection is a central nervous system depressant, therefore causing reduced spontaneous activity, muscular relaxation, and sedation. It acts quickly, offering a pronounced and prompt calming effect.

Special Precautions

• Do not use in animals with allergy or hypersensitivity to this drug.
• May lower blood pressure in animals by blocking nervous control of blood vessels. In some cases, may increase heart rate, and therefore should be used cautiously in animals with heart disease.
• Drug reaction can lower blood pressure and cause heart arrhythmias in Boxers, and is therefore not recommended for this breed.
• May cause sedation, but a paradoxical reaction of severe aggression or excitement may occur in some animals. Because of this, dogs on this medication should be gently handled and never left along with young children.
• May worsen or initiate seizures or epileptic attacks in susceptible animals. Caution should be used when given to pets with seizure disorders, although it is best avoided.
• Can lower body temperature, so pet should be kept warm.
• May interact with other drugs. Contact your veterinarian to determine if your pet's other medications could interact with acepromazine. Such drugs include antidiarrheals, antacids, epinephrine, propranolol, barbiturates, and narcotics.
• The most common effect is that your pet becomes relaxed, quiet, or more lethargic. Many may seem unsteady or uncoordinated. These effects are expected and could last for several hours following a dose.
• After dosing, it is common for the animal's third eyelid to elevate. This is not a cause for concern as it is reversible.

Overdose Information

Immediately contact your closest emergency animal hospital or vet.

Side Effects

A safety study utilizing elevated dosages of Acepromazine Maleate demonstrated no side effects, even when administered at 3 times the upper daily dosage limit. The most common clinical observation for the higher dosage was mild depression, which dissipated in most cases 24 hours after terminating dosage. The only side effect during numerous clinical trials was reverse sneeze (very mild respiratory distress), which was temporary and had no effect on the drug's action.

Storage

Store in a dry and cool environment.

Tips

This medication should never be administered without speaking to your veterinarian first.