SED-Ace Oral Gel is orally administered acepromazine maleate to provide a dose-dependent tranquiliser, relaxant and sedative effects in horses. It provides a safe, convenient and effective method of tranquilising and sedating horses. Acepromazine maleate mediates hypotensive, hypothermic and antispasmodic actions. It has little, if any, analgesic effect, so that painful procedures must be avoided unless accompanied by an analgesic, particularly where animals are known to have unpredictable temperaments.
Tranquilising Action - Low doses of oral acepromazine maleate promote a mild tranquilising effect, useful as an aid in quietening excitable, nervous and hard-to-handle horses. It can provide a beneficial “calming” effect during handling, training, transport and confinement. It reduces excitability, whilst retaining co-ordination and awareness of environment.
Examples of Use of SED-Ace Oral Gel
• An aid in training fractious horses.
• To calm nervous horses and reduce stress (alleviates the use of whips, hobbles and twitches).
• In minor surgical procedures in which a general anaesthetic is not required.
• As a preanaesthetic agent to augment action and permit smooth induction and recovery.
• In non surgical procedures such as shoeing, clipping and dentistry.
• Handling mares during breeding.
• Horses that have wounds which cannot heal due to constant irritation (biting, licking etc.)
• After major surgery to reduce straining.
• Useful aid in the treatment of colic and tetanus.
• To calm horses during transport.
• To calm horses during turn out.
• As a hypotensive agent and to improve peripheral blood flow.
