From:
dsauter@rexairinc.com
Date: 2002-09-10 22:37:06 UTC
Subject: Re: Pediapred dosage
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <4496679.1031697426516.JavaMail.root@scandium>
Hi again. Thank you for your post - I came home and Pigs was dehydrated, pawing at her mouth and had diahhrea. I will call the vet tomorrow. She had none of these symptoms before the pred... should I give her some pepto to help her belly. My poor girl.. I woke her up and she ate and drank on her own. The vet gave me the pediapred so I do not know which form, just that it is .3cc's.
Author wrote:
> Pediapred comes in more than one concentration (We've used both the 1
> mg/ml and the 2 mg/ml.) so the cc/ml amounts don't tell anything.
> You'll want to see what the concentration is. If the pharmacist
> accidently covered that part of the label you can ask at the animal
> hospital or at the pharmacy.
> There is no top dose of Prednisone/Prenisolone for ferrets. They are
> very UN-inclined to having side effects (one of the ways they differ
> from a number of other species), but their most common one is GI
> ulceration. That doesn't mean that all stops should be pulled out
> from scratch, just that when needed for an animal who needs extra
> help that dosing can be aggressive. We've been especially so in our
> household for advanced insulinoma in a non-surgical candidate and in
> two with lympho. We have even had a tiny elderly girl on 5 mg/day to
> get her extra quality time.