How do I get reminders for my pet's medicine?

1. Open your pet, tap Medicines, then Add medicine.
2. Type the Name, as it is on the box.
3. Fill in the Dose, like 1 tablet or 2.5 ml.
4. Pick How often. It starts at 2 times a day, at 08:00 and 20:00. Change the times if your pet takes it at others.
5. Pick How long: For some days (7 unless you change it), Until a date or Continuous.
6. Leave Remind at each dose on.
7. Tap Save medicine. The doses show on the checklist and on Home, and the reminders start with the first dose.

The form opens in Simple. Complete adds the visit or exam it was prescribed at, the vet and pharmacy, the strength, the supply, documents and notes. Switching keeps what you typed.

How often can a medicine be given?

How often has the ways a prescription is usually written:

• Times a day, with a time for each dose.
• Every few hours, counted from the first dose. Change the first and the rest follow.
• Every few days.
• Times a week, on the days you pick.
• Just once.
• As needed: no schedule and no dose reminders. You log each dose when you give it.
• Custom…: every so many days, weeks or months, with up to 6 doses on each of those days.

A Continuous medicine has no end date, for daily supplements and long-term treatments. It stays under Current medicines until you stop it.

How do I mark a dose as given?

Tap the dose, on Home, on the medicine or on the checklist, and confirm Given at (now, unless you change it) and Given by. To skip it, tap Skip, or long press the dose (right-click on a computer) on Home, on the medicine or on the checklist, and add why if you like, such as "Refused it" or "Vomited". A skipped dose stays in the history and its reminder is cleared.

Tap a given dose again to undo it.

Every medicine shows when it was last given, with the day and the time, so you can check before giving the next one.

• Late is a dose from earlier today that nobody marked yet.
• A past dose that nobody marked counts as missed. The medicine shows it, like "Day 3 of 7, 2 doses missed".
• A dose more than an hour away shows as later today. You can still mark it, for when you give it early.

Where do I see every dose?

Medicines in the main menu has every course of every pet in one place, in two views:

• Checklist: a grid of doses by day, with a box for each dose. Tap a box when it's given, tap again to undo.
• Today: today's doses by morning, afternoon and evening, and the as needed medicines.

With several pets, filter by pet at the top. Home also lists today's doses for every pet, in time order with the routines, the late ones first.

What if the vet changes the dose or the length?

Open the medicine. The actions are there:

• Change dose: a new amount or schedule from tomorrow. The old course stops the day before with "Dose changed". In the history both show together, joined by a line that says what changed and when, so it reads as one treatment with a new dose, not two.
• Extend: add days to the end. Keep the same dose, or change it from the day the new part starts.
• Stop course: the last day given and why. The remaining doses and their reminders are cancelled.

How does the supply count work?

In Complete, turn on Track the supply and type how much you have On hand now. VetVitae counts down with each dose marked given. Home warns when 3 are left, or the number you set in Remind when this many remain, and when the supply runs out before the course ends: on the dose in today's list ("3 tablets left") while one is still to give today, otherwise as a line under Around the house. This shows on Home, not as a phone notification. Tap Update count after buying more.

Who gets the reminders?

Under Who gets it, a medicine reminds Everyone on your pet, or Only me. Everyone sees the doses on the checklist either way, with who gave each one. See sharing your pet with family.

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