Meloxicam 40 mg/mL Injection

Use the contents within 28 days of first broaching of the vial. Discard the unused portion.

Cattle

SINGLE USE ONLY by subcutaneous or intravenous injection.

Administer 0.5 mg meloxicam/kg bodyweight (i.e. 1.25 mL/100 kg bodyweight) in combination with antibiotic therapy, as appropriate. For reduction in pain and inflammation associated with surgery administer subcutaneously 10 minutes before the painful procedure. Management of surgical pain in cattle involves pre-emptive analgesia, using a multimodal approach with elevet+ Meloxicam 40 mg/mL Solution for Injection and appropriate local anaesthetic.

Meloxicam 40 mg/mL

elevet+ Meloxicam 40 mg/ml Solution for Injection is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic for use in cattle.

Cattle

For the reduction of pain associated with surgery. For use in acute respiratory infection and diarrhoea in combination with appropriate antibiotic therapy to reduce clinical symptoms in calves and young cattle. For use in acute mastitis, in combination with antibiotic therapy, as appropriate, to reduce clinical symptoms in lactating cows. For use to assist in the control of pain following the dehorning of cattle, particularly that following heat cautery dehorning of young cattle. It is recommended that the injection be administered approximately 10 minutes before dehorning and be accompanied by a cornual nerve block anaesthesia.

Contraindicated for use in animals suffering from haemorrhagic gastrointestinal disorders, impaired hepatic, cardiac or renal function and haemorrhagic disorders, or where there is evidence of ulcerogenic gastrointestinal lesions or of individual hypersensitivity to the product. For the treatment of diarrhoea in cattle, do not use in animals of less than one week of age.