Message Number: SG5423 | New FHL Archives Search
From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2003-07-20 04:02:08 UTC
Subject: RE: JIgs needs help
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <4113086.1058673728378.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

At 6.7mg/5ml, Jigs was getting roughly 0.25mg of pred. Like Sukie said, a relatively small dose. Wonder no longer. A coma or seizures sounds like a real good reason for a sizeable increase in his dosage, but as always, talk to your vet first.

mike

Author wrote:
> The night he crashed we gave him 1/2 cc of the pedia pred and the following morning and the next 48 hrs. but lowered it to 2/10 then and honestly he was a lot perkier when his dose was 1/2 cc. after lowering his dose he also developed diahrrea and became very lethargic. I'm wondering about trying the 1/2 cc dose again.