From:
Ulrike
Date: 2001-06-25 16:58:00 UTC
Subject: Vets please: prednisolone dosage
Hello
My Jilly has insulinoma and is on pred, Jack gets it for lymphoma. My vet
told me to give Jack a 1mg tablet once a day, is that okay or is it better
to give pred twice a day? My vet also told me to give Jilly 1mg once a day
but I give it to her twice a day...
Now, Jack is 1.8kg, is 1mg not a very small dose? Should he be getting
more? If so, how much?
And Jilly is starting to experience very low sugars again, I did a blood
sugar reading last Saturday, Jilly had been just fine and not showing any
signs of low sugar but then she deteriorated before my eyes and I did a
glucose test and it was 25mg/dl... Is that very low? It's my first
experience with insulinoma... As I said, she gets 0.5mg morning and night,
I increased it to 0.75mg morning and night so 1 1/2mg per day but she isn't
doing much better, how much can I give her, can I just double her dose? My
vet isn't very experienced with ferrets, she is a great vet and knows a lot
but I think she thinks that pred is bad and that ferrets get a lot of side
effects from it like immune system suppression like other animals...
Thanks for any help...
From Ulrike
and Jilly, Jack, Bella, Tom, Mason, Baby, Dana, Fox, Reno, Rose, Jasmine,
Spike, Hobo, Gremlin and Bobby
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