Message Number: SG11905 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Russell Prater
Date: 2004-12-19 21:53:37 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] prescribed prednesone
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <41C5F861.6060206@worldnet.att.net>

glenn_kelli@yahoo.com wrote:

> What is the purpose of the steroid?
>He hates it and it breaks my heart having to force it down him.

If he is taking prednesone pills, they taste aweful. Anything you
disolve them in will taste bad, too. Get your vet to write you a
presciption for a bottle of PediaPred. It's prednesolone, a better drug
for ferrets but has the same effect as prednesone with out the bad
taste. As to it's purpose, I can't say. They use it for so many things
like allergies, inflamation and even cancer. I am not a vet.