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.