Corporate Magazine 2012 - Boehringer Ingelheim

Food producing animals – cattle (continued)Pain and inflammatory diseasesmetacam® as a member of the class of non-steroidalanti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) combines the needfor maintained profitability and the concern for animalwelfare in animal production.Due to its long-acting feature and its outstanding efficacyin controlling inflammatory symptoms, it helps tominimise losses from inflammation and maintain profitabilityin animals suffering from disease. At the sametime, metacam® effectively controls pain and supportsthe restoration of well-being in farm animals. The useof metacam® is convenient and inflicts no stress on animalsdue to its low-volume, one-shot feature.metacam® is licensed for use in cattle suffering fromrespiratory disease. It is also indicated in calves affectedby diarrhoea and as adjunctive therapy in the treatmentof mastitis in lactating cattle.Companion animals – horseThe main horse products focus on the therapeutic areasrespiratory disease, lameness and colic, as well as newlyhormonal disorders.ventipulmin® is a treatment of acute and chronic respiratorydisease in which airway obstruction due to bronchospasmand/or mucus accumulation is a contributingfactor and improved mucociliary clearance is desirable.ventipulmin® can be used alone or as adjunctive therapyin chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)and in acute, sub-acute and chronic respiratory allergicconditions.prascend® is indicated for the treatment of pituitarypars intermedia dysfunction (PPID), which is also knownas Equine Cushing’s disease. prascend® substitutes thelack of dopamine in the pituitary pars intermedia. Clinicalsigns are hypertrichiosis, laminitis, change in bodyconfirmation and lack of performance. Treatment withprascend® is life-long.vetera® vaccines is the first vaccine portfolio that includesmultiple choices of convenient combinations ofdisease protection for horses as young as four months ofage. The vaccine protects against as many as seven oreight diseases including influenza, herpes, West-Nile,tetanus and others. This enables a customised protectionfor each horse possible with limited needle injections.All vetera® vaccines are formulated utilising theUltrafil Purification Technology, removing most of theextraneous proteins and allowing the horse’s immunesystem to focus on the relevant antigens.92Boehringer Ingelheim annual report 2012