AEMPS Warns of the Deadly Risk of Minoxidil for Dogs and Cats
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Contact with treated skin, hands, or bedding can cause severe poisoning, especially in felines
Health warning to people who use lotions against hair loss and who have pets: without realizing it, they may be putting their pets in danger of death. The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (Aemps) has alerted this Monday of the risk it poses to animals, and especially to cats, to come in contact with topical medicines (those that apply to the skin) that contain minoxidil, the active substance that is most used in medicines, lotion…
The pets suffer serious poisoning by coming into direct contact with the minoxidil used by their owners or indirectly through pillows and sheets
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The Spanish Agency for Medicinal Products and Health Products (AEMPS) has warned of the risk of pet animals coming into contact with topical drugs for human use containing minoxidil, which are indicated for the treatment of androgenic alopecia in adults and which can produce serious cardiovascular toxicity and fatal outcomes in pets, especially in cats.
The AEMPS alerts for serious cardiovascular poisonings, and fatal in cats, by contact with human topical minoxidil, even without ingestion. The Minoxidil entry in dogs and cats: the AEMPS alert for serious and even fatal poisonings was first published in What!.
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