As an anti inflammatory drug?
I actually work out dosages based on the concentration of my metacam (its usually 1.5 mg/ml.)rattygirl said:I use Metacam as a painkiller and anti-inflamitory, post-op analgesic included. I dilute it to half strength so that one drop is half a drop, if you get what I mean. That way I can be sure that I'm not overdosing their kidneys. Also, don't use it for more than a few days at a time, for the same reason. But it's definitely good stuff for pain and inflamation.
There are 2 basic strengths of metacam I have found, 1.5 mg/ml and .5 mg/ml. Unless Dotty is a big girl? She may have had the lower concentration of metacam.Emster said:I had to give Dotty 0.12ml of Metacam a day.
I used to put her dosage in either a smallish piece of toast or a small spoonful of baby food, you could guarantee she'd eat it then.
Yeah, I'm sure it was the lower concentration. I guess she needed quite alot though as she was recovering from surgery.lilspaz68 said:There are 2 basic strengths of metacam I have found, 1.5 mg/ml and .5 mg/ml. Unless Dotty is a big girl? She may have had the lower concentration of metacam.Emster said:I had to give Dotty 0.12ml of Metacam a day.
I used to put her dosage in either a smallish piece of toast or a small spoonful of baby food, you could guarantee she'd eat it then.
xampx, definitely .08 cc's was the correct dose. .8 cc's might've hurt your rat a lot! 8O Metacam OD is an unpleasant thing with seizures, etc.
Do you have an approximate weight on her and I can figure it out for you?Emster said:Yeah, I'm sure it was the lower concentration. I guess she needed quite alot though as she was recovering from surgery.lilspaz68 said:There are 2 basic strengths of metacam I have found, 1.5 mg/ml and .5 mg/ml. Unless Dotty is a big girl? She may have had the lower concentration of metacam.Emster said:I had to give Dotty 0.12ml of Metacam a day.
I used to put her dosage in either a smallish piece of toast or a small spoonful of baby food, you could guarantee she'd eat it then.
xampx, definitely .08 cc's was the correct dose. .8 cc's might've hurt your rat a lot! 8O Metacam OD is an unpleasant thing with seizures, etc.
It certainly didn't seem to effect her, as there were no seizures or anything.
350 grams is one of my smaller girls, 275 is tiny All rats have diffferent sizes and shapes and weights just like people...if she's healthy and not fat, then I wouldn't worry.xampx said:Carrot weighs 350grams, and the vet worked out 0.8ml and wrote that on the bottle. I guess it was a typo. I will have to mention that next time I see her, its only because I have been medicating Carrot for a while that I thought it seemed a lot. Il stick to the 0.08ml
As for the babyfood - she knows!!! She worked out we were trying to drug her with her last batch of Baytril. I even resorted to hiding it in the gravy you get in canned dog food and the cat food, I tried breads, cheese, mashed potato, banana and pretty much every kind of babyfood possible. I got her fruit musli baby food this time, and she will eat it from the jar, but she won't eat the stuff I mixed for her. So I went for a shower and left my partner to make her eat it, and he just smeared it around her chin and paws lol. It worked, and thats all that matters
Also, is 350grams not that much for a ratty? She is huge compared to her sister, who is about 275.
Dotty wouldn't eat anything with Baytril in it either. The vet told me that they hate the taste of baytril so won't take it that easily (Unless you're super lucky and have a rat that'll take whatever you give it :lol: ) even if you disguise it...These little critters are much to clever.xampx said:As for the babyfood - she knows!!! She worked out we were trying to drug her with her last batch of Baytril. I even resorted to hiding it in the gravy you get in canned dog food and the cat food, I tried breads, cheese, mashed potato, banana and pretty much every kind of babyfood possible. I got her fruit musli baby food this time, and she will eat it from the jar, but she won't eat the stuff I mixed for her. So I went for a shower and left my partner to make her eat it, and he just smeared it around her chin and paws lol. It worked, and thats all that matters
The vet did say out loud how much she weighed, but I really can't remember the figure. And I can't go weigh her as Dotty is no longer with melilspaz68 said:Do you have an approximate weight on her and I can figure it out for you?Emster said:Yeah, I'm sure it was the lower concentration. I guess she needed quite alot though as she was recovering from surgery.lilspaz68 said:There are 2 basic strengths of metacam I have found, 1.5 mg/ml and .5 mg/ml. Unless Dotty is a big girl? She may have had the lower concentration of metacam.Emster said:I had to give Dotty 0.12ml of Metacam a day.
I used to put her dosage in either a smallish piece of toast or a small spoonful of baby food, you could guarantee she'd eat it then.
xampx, definitely .08 cc's was the correct dose. .8 cc's might've hurt your rat a lot! 8O Metacam OD is an unpleasant thing with seizures, etc.
It certainly didn't seem to effect her, as there were no seizures or anything.