My vet just gave me Ciproflox for Tika's upper respiratory infection. Is this another name for a more commonly used medicine? I did a search on the forum but didn't find anything.
Any thoughts?
Ciprofloxacin (commonly known as Cipro) is the human version of enrofloxacin (baytril). BUT I was told early in my rat rescue "career" that cipro is much less effective than baytril on our rats which is why we use enro almost exclusively.
Although ciprofloxacin may be used as a substitue when enrofloxacin is not available, it should be noted that there are some pharmacologic differences. Notably that ciprofloxacin is less reliably absorbed than enrofloxacin.
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