Clinacin Tablets 25mg (pack of 100)

Clinacin Tablets 25mg (pack of 100)

Clinacin tablets for cats and dogs are used for the treatment of infected wounds, abscesses, superficial pyoderma and oral cavity/dental infections. Clinacin tablets can also be used to help provide antimicrobial cover during dental procedures.

These tablets are white round tablets with a breakline on one side. Each tablet contains 25 mg of the active ingredient clindamycin (as hydrochloride). Tablets can be divided into halves or quarters to ensure accurate dosing.

How To Buy Clinacin Tablets 25mg For Cats & Dogs

Clinacin tablets 25mg is a prescription-only medication. This means that before you complete your purchase, you are required to upload a prescription through our online portal.

Once our team has confirmed you've ordered the right medication for your cat or dog, we will send out your order. It's a simple process that means you can buy Clinacin online instead of going to your vet every month.

How To Use Clinacin Tablets

1. For treatment of infected wounds, abscesses, oral cavity/dental infections, administer 5.5mg clindamycin per kg bodyweight twice daily for 7 - 10 days. Treatment may be extended to a maximum of 28 days based on clinical judgement. If no improvement is seen within 4 days, the sensitivity of the pathogens involved should be redetermined.

2. For the treatment of superficial pyoderma administer 11mg clindamycin per kg bodyweight once daily. Continue treatment for at least 21 days.

3. For the treatment of osteomyelitis administer 11 mg clindamycin per kg bodyweight twice daily for at least 28 days. If no improvement is seen within 14 days, the sensitivity of the pathogens involved should be redetermined.

4. To help provide antimicrobial cover during dental procedures, a 10 day course of 5.5 mg/kg every 12 hours is recommended (i.e. beginning 5 days before the intended procedure and continuing for 5 days thereafter).

Special Precautions

Any unused veterinary medicinal product or waste materials derived from such veterinary medicinal products should be disposed of in accordance with local requirements.

This veterinary medicinal product does not require any special storage conditions.

Target species

Dogs

Indications for use, specifying the target species

Clinacin 25 mg Tablets are indicated in dogs for the treatment of infected wounds, abscesses, superficial pyoderma and oral cavity/dental infections caused by or associated with clindamycin-sensitive staphylococci, streptococci, bacteroidaceae, Fusobacterium necrophorum, Clostridium perfringens and osteomyelitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus.  Clinacin 25 mg Tablets can also be used to help provide antimicrobial cover during dental procedures.

Contraindications

Do not administer to animals with hypersensitivity to clindamycin and lincomycin preparations.  Do not administer to rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters, horses or ruminants.  

Special warnings for each target species

Before use of Clinacin 25 mg tablets, the identification of causative pathogenic micro-organisms should be carried out and their susceptibility to clindamycin should be established.
Clindamycin and lincomycin show parallel-resistance.  There is a partial cross-resistance to erythromycin and other macrolide-antibiotics.  

 

Special precautions for use

Special precautions for use in animals

During prolonged therapy of one month or greater, periodic liver and kidney function tests and blood counts should be performed.  Patients with severe renal and/or very severe hepatic disturbances accompanied by severe metabolic aberrations should be dosed with caution and should be monitored by serum examination during high dose clindamycin therapy.

Special precautions to be taken by the person administering the veterinary medicinal product to animals

None

Adverse reactions (frequency and seriousness)

Clindamycin sometimes causes the overgrowth of non sensitive organisms such as resistant clostridia and yeasts.  In cases of superinfection, appropriate measures should be taken according to the clinical situation.  
Vomiting and diarrhoea are observed occasionally.  

Use during pregnancy, lactation or lay

While high dose studies in rats suggests that clindamycin is not a teratogen and does not significantly affect the breeding performance of males and females, safety in gestating bitches or breeding male dogs has not been established.  

Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interaction

Neuromuscular blocking effects have been observed with clindamycin possibly leading to an increase of efficacy of other neuromuscular blocking agents.  The concomitant use of such drugs must be handled with care.
Clindamycin should not be used concomitantly with chloramphenicol or macrolides because they may antagonise each other at the site of action.