temblabamomo
Senior Member
My vet told me it was okay to go ahead and start a couple of my boys on this and whipped up a big batch of it for me to pick up when I was picking up Eugene from necro. I got weights on the kids and pull up ratguide dosing and am totally confused. I already left a message at the vet, but he is closed tomorrow and even though I plan to keep calling, I am a bit paranoid about it he doesn't get back to me.
When I looked at the bottle this morning it said "trimethsulfa 48mg/ml".
Wasn't expecting to look at Ratguide and see so many different strengths listed. I don't know which one mine is or what the guidelines are for it.
Then I looked at this, which says 15mg/lb BID, PO .15cc/lb
http://www.rmca.org/Articles/dchart.htm
Is this correct?
If it helps, the label on it has the dosage for Eugene at .35cc BID based on his last vet weigh in of ~530g.
On a sidenote - does amikacin effect mycoplasma? I am not convinced that we aren't dealing with it. We are waiting for a culture result, hopefully Monday, so vet said to stick with trimeth + nebulized amikacin and we'll switch if culture indicates we should, but if we are dealing with myco and neither of these drugs target it, I'm scared we're wasting time. Eugene and Moo did not respond much to doxy/enro so we moved on to other things but nothing really seemed effective. They both presented with lower resp symptoms only, no sneezing/wheezing/snuffling/discharge/etc. For both their only symptom was slightly increased resp rate with little lung sound and they were both immediately put on meds. They both ended up with abscesses.
When I looked at the bottle this morning it said "trimethsulfa 48mg/ml".
Wasn't expecting to look at Ratguide and see so many different strengths listed. I don't know which one mine is or what the guidelines are for it.
Then I looked at this, which says 15mg/lb BID, PO .15cc/lb
http://www.rmca.org/Articles/dchart.htm
Is this correct?
If it helps, the label on it has the dosage for Eugene at .35cc BID based on his last vet weigh in of ~530g.
On a sidenote - does amikacin effect mycoplasma? I am not convinced that we aren't dealing with it. We are waiting for a culture result, hopefully Monday, so vet said to stick with trimeth + nebulized amikacin and we'll switch if culture indicates we should, but if we are dealing with myco and neither of these drugs target it, I'm scared we're wasting time. Eugene and Moo did not respond much to doxy/enro so we moved on to other things but nothing really seemed effective. They both presented with lower resp symptoms only, no sneezing/wheezing/snuffling/discharge/etc. For both their only symptom was slightly increased resp rate with little lung sound and they were both immediately put on meds. They both ended up with abscesses.
