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From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2002-10-29 19:45:28 UTC
Subject: RE: greeting /question
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <19529857.1035920728814.JavaMail.root@scandium>

While I'm no vet, I don't think three days of antibiotics would be successful at treating much of anything. In fact, as I understand it, stopping antibiotics too soon can even make things worse. I've never heard of antibiotics being given for any less than a week to ten days. For some problems, it needs even a longer course of treatment. And not all antibiotics are the same. So if was just a "try this" type of treatment, perhaps it needs to be determined what the actual cause is so the proper antibiotics can be prescribed.

I don't know if antibiotics is the answer in this case, but just thought I'd put in those comments.

mike

Author wrote:
> the vet had him on antibiotics for 3 days with no
> change