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Maxolon

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I have a prescription for maxolon from my vets to keep in handy. I have rang up boots the chemist and they say it's £6.75 for 200ml is that about the going rate then? To be honest I thought it would it more expensive then that, there is quita bit in a 200ml bottle :shock:
 
i asked my vet today about getting a bottle..maybe i should have asked for a prescription instead:?

its a prescription only drug isnt it?
 
Isn't £6.75 the cost for all prescriptions to be filled on the NHS? Im sure when I got Trimethoprim from Boots I had to pay the private rate e.g. non-NHS which was the actual cost of the product.
 
I didn't know that was how much a prescription was, it's been so long back since I had one, but you're probably right. I did say the prescription was from the vets, she was either not listening to me or got it way wrong, I did think it was a bit cheap.

Purplebumble, I think it would be loads cheaper than the vets though :D
 
mmm much cheaper than vets but if it was available to buy over the counter id gladly pay twice that as its saved my bif..shes had gi probs so long now thru stress since oscar died......
mums bun got spayed and went downhill i gave her metacopramide and she pooed and started eating the next day.

my first bun when she was spayed and when she had dentals they used to send me home with a little clear tub of bunny recovery stuff..metacam...and prepulsid as the norm..guess its why she got thru gi stasis so much......

that practice is still there but the vet has long gone.

guess ill just have to go screaming for nearly twenty quids worth of taxi fare each way to the main branch/hospital next time and get the syrup that way altho before they gave me pills to grind as the shipment was delayed and bif had ground pills twice!
 
£6.75 for 200ml is a hell of a lot less than what i pay!:shock:

£8.70somthing for 100ml at my local vets.:?
 
I might be wrong but I thought maxolon has a really short shelf life once the bottle has been opened?? Can anyone who has a whole bottle read it and find out, it's one of those things vaguely in the back of my mind so I'd be curious to find out if it's really the case.
 
Well I'll be able to tell you the price later later if I get chance I will pick up my prescription later. :D

Alison I wil let you know the shelf life once I've got it :thumb:
 
I got a bottle, it's cost me the all of £5.90, didn't know how I afforded it to be honest :shock::lol::lol: I've got 250ml, hmmmm can't see me getting through that before that date is up oct 2009 and there is nothing on the bottle it should be discarded within x amount of weeks so is it ok to the use by date?
 
I use Metachloprmide syrup at work and there is no use within ... weeks of opening for it. It is use by best before date. The use by date is usually about 18 months after we get it supplied.
 
Thank's Janice, I would hate to give any of the buns something that wasn't good for them, it probably wont get used but is nice to know it's here. :D
 
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