Message Number: YG10450 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Pam Sessoms
Date: 2002-01-23 22:48:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Question about carafate dosage.

Hey all,

Just a quckie:

KC wrote:

"What she left for me was 600 mg tablet and said to give 1/16th of it."

Then I wrote:
> Something may be weird about this... I've only ever seen Carafate
> tabs in 1 gram (1000 mg) form; never 600 mg. Has anyone else ever
> seen a 600 mg form before? Is it a whole, unbroken tablet?

KC and I have exchanged private e-mail, and it's OK. The tablet has the
usual "17 12" on it, per the usual 1 g carafate tablets like seen in:

http://www.gicare.com/pated/sucralfate.htm

So, anyway, my paranoid fear that there may have been a medication mix-up
was all for naught.

Cheers!

-Pam S.