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From: Sandra Fox
Date: 2005-05-11 21:32:25 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: Self-Administered Lupron
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-Id: <20050512154151.33EC837CF5@sitemail.everyone.net>

Another point to consider is that Lupron is a medication. Therefore, the vet would either have to write a prescription or supply the medication for you.

While I have no trouble giving a ferret a subq injection, I would certainly not give an intramuscular one. There are too many things that can go wrong, like hitting bone, tearing muscle, going into a vein instead of muscle... The same reasons I don't like giving IM injections to people.

Sandra

--- mjanke@miamiferret.org wrote:

From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com

By the time you buy the syringes, needles, the Lupron AND do all this without compromising the sterility of any of it, then having to inject it in a muscle, I don't believe it's worth it to try to home administer it or if there would be any worthwhile savings.

mike

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