When to call a vet

This site lists what has been reported to FDA. It cannot tell you what is happening to your animal, and nothing on it is veterinary advice. The general guidance below is the kind any veterinary practice gives; your own practice's instructions come first.

Go to a veterinarian or emergency clinic now

• Difficulty breathing, blue or very pale gums.
• Collapse, unresponsiveness, or a seizure.
• Sudden swelling of the face or hives with vomiting or weakness.
• Repeated vomiting or diarrhea, especially with blood, or an animal that cannot keep water down.
• An animal that has swallowed a medication not meant for it, or far more than intended. Take the package with you.
• Inability to stand, walk or urinate.

Call your veterinary practice the same day

• Any new sign after starting a medication that worries you: loss of appetite for more than a day, unusual tiredness, wobbliness, itching or skin changes where a product was applied, changes in drinking or urination.
• A medication that does not seem to be working.
• A missed or doubled administration, if the label or your veterinarian has not already told you what to do.

What not to take from a website

Whether to stop, continue or change a medication is a decision for the veterinarian who prescribed it and can examine the animal. Stopping some drugs abruptly carries its own problems. A sign listed on a product's page here may have nothing to do with that product; see what a report is, and is not.

Afterwards

Once the animal is cared for, consider reporting what happened: how to report a problem.