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Your vet friend is wrong. I have many years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and either animal or human can equally have a reaction to an inactive ingredient as to a passive ingredient - just like some people can be allergic to something while others are not. Also, the inactive ingredient can affect how the active ingredient works - for example if you mix water with bleach you will get dilute bleach, but if you mix a little soap with bleach it will strengthen it's cleaning power. It is a HUGE myth that generics are equivalent to name brands as the exact formula is never the same it is just the active ingredient which is the same. The purpose of generics is for both generic companies to make money and for pharmacists/stores to earn greater margins on products sold. That's not to say that some generics are not perfectly safe and effective but they are not EXACTLY the same as the name brand and someone could easily react to a generic where they may not have reacted to the name brand.I have been using Pet Armor on my cats and dogs for the last year. Before doing so I consulted a good friend of mine who is a vet specifically dealing with felines. She informed me that it was equally safe to use as other similar products and the active ingredients, as mentioned in threads before this, are the exact same ingredients as those found in Front Line.
I was searching through this forum for other answers and stumbled upon this thread. I called my friend to ask about the above comments about adverse reactions thinking that possibly there was new information since she had initially told me it was safe. You should all know that she laughed when I questioned her about it. She stated, without any hesitation, that it is the ACTIVE ingredients that cause a reaction and not the inactive ones. Cats who respond poorly to this medication will indeed exhibit the same reaction from Front Line. She also suggested that, given the described symptoms, the issue more than likely had to deal with the amount of medication given and not the medication itself. She said this is the problem with all flea medications. Every time you put any product on a cats sensitive skin you run this risk.
I asked her if in her practice she recommended this product and she told me no. She told me that there is a significant mark up on products that the vet sell you like Front Line and that telling people they work the same takes money out of her clinic.