From:
fzylogic@hotmail.com
Date: 2005-09-09 16:38:43 UTC
Subject: RE: Biaxin, Dilated Cardiomyopathy & Possible Kidney Disease
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6274772.1126283923668.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Author wrote:
> For complete effect you really do not want to give the Carafate with food.
Unfortunately that is the only way she will take it. I've tried both flavors (cherry and grape) from local pharmacies and had more compounded 3 different times by a compounding pharmacy and then had them send unflavored. I called a very busy ferret clinic in MD and the tech said it was okay to mix with the baby food (better than nothing at all) but that mixing or chasing it with Ferretone or Pet Tinic would be better. Neither worked in our case. But I understand mixing it with anything reduces the efficacy. This is a ferret that likes Pepto! Go figure.
> Do not give other oral meds for at least a half hour on either side of giving the Carafate,
I've been waiting 2 hours before and after.
> Have you asked your vet and pharmacist about possible conflicts for the meds in relation to both the diseases diagnosed and the medications given for those diseases?
The pharmacists only have info for humans and the local vet just flat out isn't interested. I've been on the phone and computer since before daylight. The local vet finally consulted a cardiologist in FL after she was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy but has refused to contact or ask the cardiologist anything since. I have provided countless contact info for vets with more ferret experience but it hasn't done any good.
I found somewhere online that the prescribing doctor should be told if the human patient has heart, kidney or liver disease, or is taking Digoxin. She is taking Furosemide, Benazepril, Digoxin and Proglycem.
I know Biaxin and Amoxicillin are the most prescribed combo these days but saw Biaxin and Ranitidine and Biaxin, Omeprazole and Metronidazole listed in the 2nd edition of _Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents_. Has anyone tried any of these instead of Biaxin and Amoxi?
Thanks for the info and resources.