Pet Owners

Medications

Medications are vital to your pet’s treatment.

Please be aware that the ophthalmologist may prescribe a number of drops or tablets for you to administer to your pet. If you struggle to administer certain medications please let the ophthalmologist know at the time of your consultation.

Medication costs are not included in the consultation or surgery fees and will be added on to your invoice. You will be required to pay for all medications at the time they are dispensed. A dispensing fee will apply.

Repeat medications can be requested, providing your pet is a current patient at Eye Vet and has been examined by our ophthalmologists within the last 6 months. Medications are sent via Royal Mail 1st Class ‘Signed For’ service. You will incur a non refundable postage and packaging charge.

Please allow 48 hours notice for repeat medication requests.

To aid with this, the following chart is useful for working out roughly how long a bottle of eye drops will last.

Duration of drops in days (to the nearest day)

Application frequency
(1 drop per dose)

Bottle size (ml)

2.5ml (50 drops)

5ml (100 drops)

10ml (200 drops)

Once Daily

Twice Daily

3 Times Daily

4 Times Daily

5 Times Daily

6 Times Daily

7 Times Daily

8 Times Daily

Every 2 Hours

Every hour

50	100	200
25	50	100
16	33	66
12	25	50
10	20	40
8	16	33
7	14	28
6	12	25
4	8	16
2	4	8

Number of days a bottle will last dependent on the number of drops given daily.
This is a rough estimate only and does not take into account wastage or spillage.