From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2010-06-20 14:36:28 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Sprout Continued (Last post was incomplete)
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Carafate has a dosing range, and the vet will prescribe the amount
within that range as the veterinarian figures is needed.
Prednisolone has a maximum storage temperature of 86'F (30'C) and
should not be refrigerated normally but some medications can tolerate
higher or lower temperatures than their normal storage temperatures
for short periods, meaning that it is essential to have the pharmacist
look up that short term range if there is a reason that it would get
hotter before it is in the ferret himself. (That is also one of the
reasons that some compounded meds sometimes have such short life spans
compared to non-compounded ones, because some which are not normally
refrigerated need to be refrigerated if they are compounded with
certain flavorings, but not with others.)
Carafate needs to be separated in time from other meds always and from
food if it is needed to coat the GI tract. We tend to personally use
spacing that is easy to remember: an hour from meds and a half hour
from foods, except when we are giving it not to coat but only to help
form stools and then we don't have to worry about the food timing.
(We have one who is a garbage belly and regularly gives himself runs
due to eating whatever he finds on the floor, and his dosing varies
from nothing when he is fine, to 0.3 ml of the standard 1 gram/10 ml
suspension for his usual level of trouble, to 0.5 ml of that same
suspension when he gets his gut really upset.)
The Carafate suspension should have a lot of solid material that needs
to shaken before use. We have twice gotten thin and pretty much
useless stuff when pharmacy workers were not familiar with Carafate
and did not shake their bottle enough before measuring our our
amount. So, a reminder to shake well, and a look a the med and a
shake before taking it home simply make sense. (BTW, our ferrets mind
the taste of the thin stuff more than they do the prep the way it
should be.)
We are personally also prone to looking up things like medication
conflicts before using a med. Here are some examples of resources but
there also are ones listed in the FHL Files section. If there is a
question we discuss it with the pharmacist (because vets can not be
expected to also be pharmacists -- I only know one with those double
doctorates) and then with the veterinarian (because ferrets DO differ
from humans and pharmacy info is usually for humans, so pharmacists
can not be expected to be veterinarians).
http://www.drugs.com/drug-interactions/sucralfate,carafate.html
and I bet that ferret people are a decent portion of why Pred is
commonly checked in relation to Carafate (Just click it on that site
and you will be taken to a page which says there are no known
interactions between those two.
http://www.medicinenet.com/sucralfate-oral/article.htm
http://www.rxlist.com/carafate-suspension-drug.htm
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)
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