Animal Health - information about our products for Australian consumers

Boehringer Ingelheim provides advanced, preventative animal healthcare. We develop vaccines, parasiticides and pharmaceuticals that protect animals against disease and pain. Our Animal Health products are listed below by species then by product name in alphabetical order. 

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The information on this page is only intended for residents of Australia. For more information about any Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health product, including those not listed below, please contact 1800 808 691.


Horses

Product Name & Pack Size Active Ingredient Species & Indication
Buscopan® Compositum
100mL		 hyoscine-N-butyl bromide 4mg/mL, dipyrone 500mg/mL Horses, Foals:
For the treatment of painful conditions involving spasm of the gastrointestinal tract, biliary or urogenital tracts, including spasmodic colic, oesophageal obstruction and enteritis with diarrhoea.
Metacam® Oral Suspension for Horses
100mL
250mL		 meloxicam 15mg/mL Horses:
Alleviation of inflammation and relief of pain in both acute and chronic musculoskeletal disorders.
Metacam® 20mg/mL Solution for Injection
50mL
100mL
250mL		 meloxicam 20mg/mL Horses:
For single dose rapid initiation of therapy of muscloskeletal disorders and relief of pain associated with colic.
Prascend®
60 tablets
160 tablets		 1.0mg pergolide (as pergolide mesylate) Horses:
For the control of clinical signs associated with Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction (PPID) (Equine Cushing's Disease) in horses and ponies.
Sedivet®
20mL		 romifidine hydrochloride 10mg/mL Horses:
Injectable sedative to facilitate handling, examination and treatment and as a premedication agent prior to general anaesthesia.

Sputolysin®
Powder
420g

dembrexine hydrochloride monohydrate
5mg/g

Horses:
To aid in the treatment of respiratory disease, all respiratory infections with increased secretions, acute and subacute bronchitis, chronic respiratory disease with mucus, infection of the upper airways, foal pneumonia.
Ventipulmin® Granules
500g		 clenbuterol hydrochloride 0.016mg/g Horses:
Bronchodilator for the treatment of all conditions where constriction of the airway occurs and associated with bacterial and viral infections, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, respiratory allergies and exercise induced bronchospasm.
Ventipulmin® Injection
50mL		 clenbuterol hydrochloride 0.03mg/mL Horses:
Bronchodilator for the treatment of all conditions where constriction of the airway occurs and associated with bacterial and viral infections, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, respiratory allergies and exercise induced bronchospasm.