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Originally Posted by ladyjane  I agree there are some extremely well informed people on YT. Actually you are one of them. You have lots of great information about many different topics.
There are just some things I feel strongly about.
I love that YT is here to help people. I am certainly not suggesting that no one should offer help.
I just feel that diagnosing and prescribing should be left to the professionals. I also feel that people should be careful when giving advice. I actually saw someone advise a person one night to give Immodium to a pup with constipation. |
no way would i ever do this ever. I am actually against any med prescribing the only thing i have ever given doseage for was 1mg per 1lb of benedryl - i am against pepto in dogs as sulcrulfate is safer no aspirin in it - the med thing is totally up to the doctor in my book no way that is off limits. Now will i say here are some things to watch out for with a med heck yah like mixing ketoconazole and ivermectin as my friends dog went into a coma - I definitely will warn on stuff like that - Doctors and vets can make mistakes even specialists and why i tell people to ask pharmacist or manufacturer about drugs they know more
I just did a loan for a client that refused to do a loan without an equity line and the reason was his wife was prescribed meds by a specialist and the two meds killed her liver almost instantly and it was over thanksgiving weekend so they could not get a hold of insurance to make sure they would pay for liver transplant so they had to bring a check off equity line to get her on the liver transplant list - PEOPLE ARE HUMAN they make mistakes but sometimes not checking into things further ourselves can be detrimental to us or our dogs. Now had she called manufacture of drug and asked if it was ok to mix with another drug maybe they would have said no that is not a good idea she could have gone back to doctor and asked about this before taking them.