From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2003-11-26 05:37:42 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Which is better ?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <Law12-F1108fGUlAMLk00013f3e@hotmail.com>
My personal preference is prednisolone because it saves a step in the body.
It gets to work quicker then Prednisone, because as someone told you before
Prednisone is converted to prednisolone in the liver and if there may be any
problem with the liver it may not work as well. I am still not sure what
the mg/ml concentration is based on your wording. It seems you are saying
that you used a dose of 1.7 mg on your ferret, so the question is what is
the mg/ml concentratjion and what is your ferrets weight so that an accurate
dose can be calculated. Hope this helps.
Dr. Sue
>From: okmissgina@sbcglobal.net
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: Which is better ?
>Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 06:26:59 +0000 (GMT)
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>What I have is a bottle of each. I was told by the vet today on the phone
>that I needed to start Bob on Prednisone. I told him I had prednisone and
>on the bottle it lists 1.7mg and to give 1 dropper full #15ml. And at that
>time I was thinking that the other bottle (which is Prednisolone), was
>prednisone too. But later I was thinking and realized that I had a bottle
>of each. Maybe I shouldnt start Bob on either one until tomarrow now. He
>hasnt had either one ever. The bottles are from Trixie's situation. I was
>just thinking that one was worse for him. Do I have you confused yet ?
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>Author wrote:
> > Author wrote:
> > > Is Prednisone or Prednisolone better to use. I was told to start on
>.60cc of Prednisone and then I remembered that I have both.
> > A quick reminder: a volume measurement like a cc or ml measurement is
>useless for imparting the amount of medication because of multiple possible
>concentrations. The mg amount or the volume measurement plus the
>concentration mg/ml are needed to know what the dose is.
> > The thing about Prednisolone is if the ferret's liver is having any
>difficulty processing Prednisone then the Prednisolone which skips a liver
>processing step works better, which is why Prednisolone works in some
>ferrets for whom Prednisone doesn't work.
> > Are you sure that what you have given is Prednisone rather than
>Prednisolone? When I hear a fluid volume I tend to think of Prednisolone.
> > Sukie (not a vet)
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