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Posted
17-May-2007 07:29
by: ZHET

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Names of medicine in Chinese

Many moons ago someone gave a link for names of medicines in Chinese. I thought that I had bookmarked it, but I can't find it now. My rabbit has an abscess on her jaw and needs treatment, but the first vet I went to said that it was minor and she would be OK. Well, not according to what I have read on the Net and asked on a rabbit forum. There are a couple of medicines that she could be prescribed, but first I have to find out what they are called in Chinese. My students and I will try to find a vet tomorrow who will actually try to listen to us, instead of dismissing us.

I googled, but didn't find anything. Perhaps someone here has saved the website. TIA.

Nancy and Qingqing in Xi'an

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Posted
17-May-2007 09:05
by: alexander_vi

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A good way of translating such names is to use Wikipedia. Look up the name in English and then click on the Chinese language version of the article. These days this method is pretty useful and quick.

Posted
17-May-2007 09:32
by: Ruth_in_Canada

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I'm sorry about QingQing, Nancy.
Do you have antibiotic ointment to put on it? Sounds like she needs an antibiotic taken internally. Does Xi'an have a vet college? They'd give you better info, I bet.

Hope your bunny gets well soon!

cheers from Ruth

Posted
17-May-2007 20:34
by: Xiao_Hu

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Registered: 02/03/07

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Hi, Nancy - I have an English-Chinese list of many common antibiotics and other medicines. If you PM me I would be glad to email it to you.

Posted
17-May-2007 20:37
by: GavinGuan

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Do you know the name of medicine in English? I am major in Chinese medicine, maybe I can help you to translate them into Chinese.

Posted
17-May-2007 21:55
by: ZHET

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Thanks for the replies. I'll work on them now. The medicines are bicillin and Zithromax. I need to check and see what the technical name of bicillin is. Ruth is right, Qingqing needs an internal antibiotic. Externally everything looks fine, unless you notice the bump. Rabbits have thicker skin that dogs or cats, which is why their abscesses need to be treated differently.

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Posted
17-May-2007 23:52
by: GavinGuan

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Registered: 30/03/07

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bicillin is a kind of long efficiency penicillin, it's chinese name is ÜÐÐÇÇàÃ¹ËØ, or ³¤Ð§ÇàÃ¹ËØ×¢ÉäÒº in technical name, if you can't find it, other kind of penicillin(ÇàÃ¹ËØ) is ok. Zithromax is a kind of azithromycin, it's name in chinese is Ï£ÃÀÊæ, there are some other band name, such as ÊæÃÀÌØ, Ì©Á¦ÌØ, their ingredient are same with Zithromax.

best regards

Posted
18-May-2007 07:29
by: ZHET

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Before I went on the great rabbit vet hunt this afternoon, I spent a half hour trying to get to wikipedia. And failed. I got the information from answers. com, but couldn't translate it. We saw a couple of vets this afternoon but had no luck. Then I got home and saw that #6 has saved the day! My student wrote down the characters and will try to buy the medicine tomorrow. I'm hoping that the school doctor, who lives above me, will give the injections.

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Posted
18-May-2007 07:41
by: 889

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Registered: 11/06/02

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To find the Chinese names of medicines and such, just go to Google Advanced Search and search on the medicine's English name, and select Return Pages in Simplified Chinese option.

Search thus on Zithromax, for example and the first page will be this one, which you can print out and hand to the vet even if you don't understand Chinese:

click here

Posted
18-May-2007 07:53
by: ZHET

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Thanks 889, you learn something new every day!

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Posted
18-May-2007 17:35
by: Harry_Mudd

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ah.

How to cure a rabbit.

get a pot and put him in it. add a few carrots and green vegetables, water.

cook for half an hour.

a vino cotti based sauce would be perfect.

The shortest sentence is "I am", the longest is "I do".

Posted
18-May-2007 23:07
by: ellyse

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#10, ZHET's rabbit is VERY big and kute, but I don't we would like eating Qingqing. :(
Cheers!

Posted
19-May-2007 05:37
by: ZHET

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Quote
get a pot and put him in it. add a few carrots and green vegetables, water.

Those veggies won't last long with my rabbit in that pot!

Or did you forget a step?

Thanks for sticking up for me and Qingqing, ellyse!

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Posted
19-May-2007 16:42
by: Harry_Mudd

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ZHET's rabbit is VERY big and kute

get all that fur off him and there won't be much rabbit left.

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Those veggies won't last long with my rabbit in that pot!

Forgot the potatoes

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Or did you forget a step?

That's the secret! Put the vegies inside the rabbit first!

The shortest sentence is "I am", the longest is "I do".

Posted
20-May-2007 05:35
by: ZHET

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My student bought a certain kind of penicillin for me yesteday. We got a "doctor" at the tiny clinic across from the school to come over and give Qingqing the shot. You know the kind of clinic, there's a back room for getting IVs and in the front they sell medical things. It's not very clean, either. It took some convincing to get the young man to come over and give a shot, but my student did it. On a rabbit website I have seen how to give the shot myself, but I'm not sure I have that much confidence. Plus, it took both me and my student to hold her still for the injection. Even then, she wiggled free twice, so that it took three shots to get all the medicine in. Poor thing. In the US she probably would have surgery, but after seeing surgery on dogs at a vet's office a few days ago, I knew that I wouldn't let my bunny near the knife. Also, rabbits are different from dogs and cats and we haven't found a vet yet who has dealt with rabbits.

Qingqing is still eating and pooping ok, so that's good. Hopefully the penicillin will shrink or eliminate the abscess soon. So far she isn't in pain, thank goodness.

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