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• Fludrocortisone Acetate

  Fludrocortisone is a synthetic adrenocortical steroid with mineralocorticoid activity.

• Flunixin

  Flunixin is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to relieve pain and inflammation. Your veterinary surgeon may prescribe flunixin to reduce pain in arthritis or following surgical operations.

• Food Allergy

  Food allergy is but one of about five specific allergies or hypersensitivities known to affect dogs. It is well known that people can be allergic to certain foods, but it is only relatively recently that food allergies have come to be routinely diagnosed in our dogs.

• Furosemide/Frusemide

  Furosemide (also called Frusemide) is used to help reduce the amount of water in the pet's body by increasing the flow of urine.

• Garlic

  Garlic, the bulb of the plant Allium sativum, is a well-known herb and popular ingredient for cooking. It is supplied in raw form as the fresh bulb; as a liquid alcohol extract; or in gelatin capsules.

• Gastric Dilation Volvulus (GDV)

  GDV is a very much more descriptive term than the old fashioned name, bloat, which is still often used for the condition in farm animals. It means the dog's stomach is distended with gas and may in addition have twisted upon itself thus effectively trapping the gas in the stomach.

• Gastrostomy Tube Feeding

  A gastrostomy tube is a small flexible tube that enters the stomach through a small skin incision on the dog's side. It permits you to feed your dog directly into the stomach if normal eating is not possible.

• General Anaesthesia

  General anaesthesia is a state of unconsciousness produced by drugs with the absence of any pain over the whole body together with variable amounts of muscle relaxation.

• Getting Your Dog Used to Ear Cleaning

  Most dogs' ears are a lot larger than ours and certainly a lot more sensitive. We usually only clean them when there is a problem and they are already sore, so the dog learns that handling around the ears is painful and tries to avoid it.

• Giardiasis

  Giardia is sometimes confused with worms because they invade the gastrointestinal tract and can cause diarrhoea. They are not worms; instead, they are one-celled parasites classified as protozoa and have been largely overlooked until recently.