PULMOTIL^®

An effective tool for pigs at-risk of respiratory disease

Healthy, heavier nursery pigs improve returns all the way to market. But respiratory disease that slows growth and increases variation can cost you plenty. Respiratory disease:

• Is the #1 cause of nursery death¹
• Reduces feed intake²
• Increases susceptibility to enteric disease²
• Increases trim loss at processing from lung adhesions

Nursery performance measurements as well as mortality and morbidity rates can indicate health risk factors for nursery pigs. Common secondary infections also increase respiratory disease risk.

Pulmotil controls respiratory disease associated with Actinobacillus pleuropneumonia (APP) and Pasteurella multocida to protect at-risk pigs and, by controlling respiratory disease in at-risk nursery pigs, Pulmotil can help reduce mortality³ and lower medication costs.⁴

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Veterinary Feed Directives (VFDs)

New! The FDA has determined that electronic signatures can be used to send VFDs via the internet provided that they are Part 11 compliant. Global Vet Link has the only system today that fulfills those requirements.

Electronic Veterinary Feed Directives (eVFDs) allow veterinarians to transmit via the internet to the feed mill. The feed mill receives a complete and legible VFD containing all of the required elements in an email attachment.

Are you a veterinarian or feed mill interested in using electronic VFDs for Pulmotil? Elanco sponsors this program for the swine industry through Global Vet Link. Please visit www.globalvetlink.com for more information.

For more information about how to use Global Vet Link’s electronic VFD system for veterinarians to prescribe Pulmotil, please click here.

Want more information on VFDs? To view the final FDA ruling on requirements for VFD product use, click here.

To download a paper version of the veterinary feed directive form for use with Pulmotil, click here.

To read the Feedstuffs article about the eVFD launch in 2007, click here.

 

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¹USDA NAHMS. Swine 2000 Part I: Reference of swine health and management in the United States, 2000. 2001.

²Tubbs, R. and Deen, J. Economics of respiratory and enteric diseases. Proc. AASP, 1997.

³Lehe, K. and Watkins, L. Case study: Effect of Pulmotil on mortality and growth in nursery pigs with clinical PRDC initiated by PRRSV. Proc. AASV, 2003.

⁴Langley, M., Brown, D., Tarrant, M. Dose evaluation studies with Pulmotil in the control of naturally occurring pneumonia in growing/fattening pigs. Proc 13 th IPVS Congress, 1994.

Pulmotil^® is a registered trademark for Elanco's brand of tilmicosin.