From:
"Jeff"
Date: 2010-08-10 21:33:18 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: Loperamide Hydrochloride
To: <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
Loperamide Hydrochloride is found in Immodium AD. I am listing the other ingredients of Immodium AD below, in hopes that if someone sees something that is potentially dangerous to ferrets, they will post to let me and anyone else know. I am not the original poster of this thread, but I do have a ferret who's been having diarrhea issues that I am getting stumped about, having tried many things over the last few weeks that usually work, but this time aren't.
Active Ingredients: per caplet: Loperamide HCl (2 mg Anti-diarrheal)
Inactive Ingredients: Collodial Silicon Dioxide, D&C Yellow 10, Dibasic Calcium Phosphate, FD&C Blue 1, Magnesium Stearate, Microcrystalline Cellulose
Jeff
In Memory of Neo, Trinity, Possum, Pip, Misty, Frodo, Baggins, and Mr. Parker
Caring for Luna, Morphy, Baby Girl, Dozer, Pop, Sabrina, and Minnie Mouse
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From: Tressie
>From "Gastrointestinal Diseases of the Ferret' Lennox (2005):
Supportive care includes replacing fluid needs, and ensuring adequate
nutrition to prevent weight loss and loss of muscle mass that often
accompanies chronic diarrhea. A number of hand-feeding products have
been suggested, including high-protein commercial foods such as Oxbow Carnivore Critical Care (Oxbow Pet Products, Murdock, Nebraska,
www.oxbowhay.com), Hill's a/d, strained turkey, or chicken baby food.
Antidiarrheal drugs such as loperamide hydrocloride are sometimes
helpful in slowing diarrhea as an adjunct to treatment of the primary
underlying cause (p. 222-223).
Table 4 (p. 223)
Loperamide hydrochloride
0.2 mg/kg q12h
Tressie
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