From:
Ulrike
Date: 2008-09-19 10:39:30 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Re: Revolution/ Stronghold
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I was wondering if maybe vets or people in the know could clarify whether it
is okay to split up the dog vials to use on multiple ferrets/ animals? I
searched on the Internet and in the FHL archives and only found posts and
articles that suggested that splitting vials was okay. I'm not talking
about splitting a vial and only using half and keeping the other half for
the next month. I would use a whole dog vial at once.
Ulrike
2008/9/14 weezilarchy <thryn.kat@gmail.com>
>
> > I know it is advised that ferrets get the cat dose of Revolution
> which is 45
> > mg. But I wanted to say that the cheapest option is to get the big dog
> > vials, especially if you have multiple ferrets. I just got 3 of the
> largest
> > dog vials (240 mg).
>
> For what it's worth, I've read that, unlike Advantage, you shouldn't
> split up the dog tubes of Revolution. I know the Revolution dog doses
> are a higher concentration (double the concentration if I recall
> correctly, but possibly even more) than the cat dose, so that advice
> may just be based on that alone, but I think it's also possible that
> the drug doesn't stay in perfect suspension and you can therefore get
> unreliable doses from splitting. I'd love more info on this.
>
> Mostly I'm throwing this out there as a reminder for people to pay
> attention to the mg and not the ml, as you have done above, but also
> because I'd love input on the suspension itself. If this is safe to do
> after all, it would make monthly revolution treatments a lot more
> viable for my household.
>
> -k-
>
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