At the beginning of this past summer we lost one of our rats to mycoplasmosis. It was quite devastating for us to have him die in my hands from an inability to breath and a likely apparent heart attack from stress.
Soon after this, one of our girls fell ill with the same illness and was getting near to the gates of death. We were frantic and actually found a very interesting solution by a gal who has rats. In her post she explained how boron kills fungus and seemingly destroys myco. She used it successfully and long term with her rats and eliminate respiratory issues generally for her rats it appeared from what she shared.
We followed the dosage instructions and within a day our little girl began to perk back up and the labored breathing eased and finally stopped. She was cured! We were beside ourselves since we thought that we'd have to rush her to a vet and get some antibiotics and there were none open during the weekend around us that would see a rat.
We made a special water bottle for mixing the suggested amount of borax with water to use in their drinking water and were quite satisfied that we'd eliminated this particular killer.
After a few months went by we noticed that the water bottle that we'd been using to measure it out originally was gone, along with its accompanying dosage levels. So we started digging again in hopes of finding the original posts.
Unfortunately it appears that this lady's posts have been expunged from the Interwebs... We can't find a suggested dosage for borax (boron) anywhere now except for some mentions on EarthClinic.com wherein someone is using it for skin issues and also found that it helps with myco even when applied topically. In that link you'll want to go down and search for "Eric" or "rat" (here is an excerpt for posterity just in case)
Does anyone have the dosage amounts that are safe for rats? I am hopeful that someone else here may have seen this same story and amounts that we saw and have since lost.
Also, as an aside, there is this particular study wherein they gave some test rats boron and shared their dosages for long term usage with accompanying results, but I don't have access to the full article. It might provide some insightful levels if anyone feels so inclined to dig through it.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Soon after this, one of our girls fell ill with the same illness and was getting near to the gates of death. We were frantic and actually found a very interesting solution by a gal who has rats. In her post she explained how boron kills fungus and seemingly destroys myco. She used it successfully and long term with her rats and eliminate respiratory issues generally for her rats it appeared from what she shared.
We followed the dosage instructions and within a day our little girl began to perk back up and the labored breathing eased and finally stopped. She was cured! We were beside ourselves since we thought that we'd have to rush her to a vet and get some antibiotics and there were none open during the weekend around us that would see a rat.
We made a special water bottle for mixing the suggested amount of borax with water to use in their drinking water and were quite satisfied that we'd eliminated this particular killer.
After a few months went by we noticed that the water bottle that we'd been using to measure it out originally was gone, along with its accompanying dosage levels. So we started digging again in hopes of finding the original posts.
Unfortunately it appears that this lady's posts have been expunged from the Interwebs... We can't find a suggested dosage for borax (boron) anywhere now except for some mentions on EarthClinic.com wherein someone is using it for skin issues and also found that it helps with myco even when applied topically. In that link you'll want to go down and search for "Eric" or "rat" (here is an excerpt for posterity just in case)
Does anyone have the dosage amounts that are safe for rats? I am hopeful that someone else here may have seen this same story and amounts that we saw and have since lost.
Also, as an aside, there is this particular study wherein they gave some test rats boron and shared their dosages for long term usage with accompanying results, but I don't have access to the full article. It might provide some insightful levels if anyone feels so inclined to dig through it.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
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