From:
"Roger Vaughn"
Date: 2004-05-16 01:02:16 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Please help, sacralfate or carafate?
To: <ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>
Message-ID: <52648.192.168.132.37.1084669336.squirrel@mail.seaconinc.com>
Carafate is a brand name for generic sucralfate - they're the same thing.
For helicobacter, you want to give sucralfate 10 mins before feedings
- and at least four to six times a day total - and a combination of
amoxicillin and Biaxin (which is a brand name for clarithromycin).
Both antibiotics are needed since helicobacter are resistant to any
single antibiotic.
Chicken gravy is good, but chicken baby food or turkey baby food are
blander, and therefore easier on the stomach. Try chicken baby food
instead of turkey - the taste might be closer to something she
recognizes. You can also try mixing half chicken gravy with half baby
food to get her to accept the baby food. Like any new food, it takes
them a little bit of time to get used to baby food, but most I've seen
will eat it happily once you manage to convince them that it's food.
I am not a vet.
roger
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