Message Number: YG8943 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Bruce Williams, DVM
Date: 2001-11-23 23:38:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Pepto

--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., TR1212@A... wrote:
> Hello all,
> A quick question. My kids are getting amoxi and pepto bismal each
day for
> loose stools. They hate the pepto. Is there anything I can give in
place of
> it?
> Thanks!
> Tiffany and the three kids

Dear Tiffany:

Honestly, I have had no success with PeptoBismol for loose stools.
Pepto-Bismol has a place in the treatment of Helicobacter, in
conjunction with Amoxicillin and Flagyl, but for loose stools, no.

With kindest regards,

Bruce Williams, dVM