Question of the Day
Thursday February 11th, 2010You are presented with a 7 year old female spayed Border Collie with two very goopy, gunk-covered eyes.
You do a Schirmer tear test on the dog and find less than 10 mm/minute of wetting, a decreased result from the normal of at least 15mm / minute of wetting.
The owner tells you that the dog has been on "some kind of medicine for her skin" for the last 10 days, but it is actually his girlfriend’s dog, and he doesn’t know what the medicine is.
You suspect keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) secondary to the drug. Which drug do you tell the owner may be causing the KCS?
A - Trimethoprim sulfa
B - Itraconazole
C - Amitraz
D - Prednisolone
E - Griseofulvin
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