TRAMADOL IN ANIMALS - GENERAL VIEW

1. For humans, it is sometimes difficult to understand, classify or even study their own pain, so trying to know and relieve animal pain is a difficult task. 
2. It is important to remember that pain perception is similar in all species. Perhaps, the most obvious in animals is the pain after a surgical procedure. To get good results when treating physical pain in animals may take more time because they can’t communicate verbally with us.  
3. Veterinarians and owners should pay attention to all suitable signs of pain through painful behavior. 
4. There are two main types of pains: acute and chronic pain. The first appears on suddenly because of an injury, surgery or an infection. This sort of pain can limit animals’ mobility. The second one is a long lasting pain. Many of the causes of chronic pain are disorders connected with age.

 To investigate pain in animals many clinical studies have been performed for many years. Most of them have used dogs and cats. However, small rodents and rabbits are the main subjects of these studies. Benefits of using painkillers in animals include better surgery recovery, shorter hospitalization time and improvement of respiratory function. Many other treatments and therapies are focused on relieving different kinds of pains. In veterinary medicine, several reasons caused animals suffering. Some of them are: osteoarthritis, cancer pain and neuropathic pain.

    Management of chronic pain can be difficult and sometimes therapy schedules must be designed by combining analgesics with adjuvant medications.There are many products to alleviate pain. The group of drugs called opioids receptors give beneficial relief in suffering animals. Although it is difficult to interpret animal suffering, we all know that providing pain relief, animals will improve their quality of life. Pain is a symptom that should be treated on suspicion. It should be administered up to the veterinarian makes sure that the level of pain has fallen.

    Tramadol for animals is one of the most reliable and useful active principles available to veterinarians for treating animals in pain. It has a dual mode of action: mu agonism and monoamine reuptake inhibition, which produces mild anti-anxiety results. Tramadol may be utilized for relieving pain in cats and dog and this is an advantage because the use of some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory substances in cats may be dangerous.