FDA Approves Drug for Dogs with Fear Hyperacusis

[lymebite]

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-drug-dogs-scared-noise-n943516

Most pets don't like loud noises, but some dogs really lose their cool when they hear fireworks or even loud traffic — vomiting, howling and damaging furniture.

Now vets can prescribe a drug to help keep them calm.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved an anti-epileptic drug, Pexion, to treat dogs freaked out by noises.​

 

[3ri0w]

So I'll get a dog...

Weird how this Pexion is originally an anti-epilepsy drug, just like manymany other drugs used to treat tinnitus/hyperacusis!!

 

[Contrast]

i do not believe this has to do with the same mechanisms of hyperacusis with pain, how does it work?

 

[Autumnly]

how does it work?

"The Food and Drug Administration has approved an anti-epileptic drug, Pexion, to treat dogs freaked out by noises.

The drug is already approved for use in treating epilepsy. Known generically as imepitoin, the drug is similar to Valium and other benzodiazepines but works in a different way to treat noise aversion. Other seizure drugs, such as gabapentin, can also treat some types of anxiety.

The drug was originally developed to treat epilepsy in people but it had some troubling effects on metabolism so was never brought to market for use in humans."

Edit: No idea whether dogs have actual pain-hyperacusis / loudness-hyperacusis, but I think it's interesting that an anti-epileptic drug works.

 

[jay777]

I always thought The Supervet could treat me better than any doctor I have seen for my tinnitus.