Message Number: SG12080 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: "katharine"
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 10:21:22 -0500
To: "Ferret Health List" <ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>
Subject: Re: ulcers?
Message-ID: <023601c4f015$8e0ccec0$e8102cc7@D1CW2811>
Carol wrote:
>What is Cimetidine for?
Cimetidine is the same as Tagamet (humans), an ulcer treatment.
> How can you give the Carafate before meals if they hate it so much and
> foam at the mouth?
Ask your vet to write a prescription for liquid sucralfate (same drug) at a
human pharmacy. You may want to call around and find out which pharmacies
carry it. It is pinkish colored and mine have all taken it quite easily.
You give it 10-15 minutes prior to feeding. I would think that putting the
carafate into something else, or washing it down with water or anything
else, might cause it just to pass on through, not coat the ulcers as it is
intended.
Katharine
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