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Hey! I recently adopted two rats unaware they had respiratory infections. I have doxysyrup and 250 mg fishmox. I've been trying to follow dosage charts and ratguide, but i cant wrap my head around it. Please help, thank you.
1) Can you tell us what symptoms you are seeing? This will help us determine the severity of the illness
2) How old are your new rats?
3) The doxysyrup is Doxyvet? (50 mg/ml)
4) We would need fairly accurate weights to help you figure out mixing and dosing for them
Need their weights. Or at very least, photos and descriptions. And I wouldn't worry about fishmox, that is for secondary infection. Unless you are worried they have complications with their Myco. You can get Baytril from Jedds.com, as well as Lady Gouldianfinch.com
You mentioned their last treatment? How long have you had them and were they sick before? If so, what antibiotics were used and for how long?
Just to make you feel better, contagious rat viruses are not the norm at all, but definitely can happen. But it sounds like you have had these new rats for a couple of weeks? By now, if they had been in the same airspace, any virus would've made your other rats sick. Mostly respiratory flareups are myco-related and more to do with the strength of the immune system of each rat.
Honestly thank you so much. I get paid on thursday and will have to order some things online so it will be a bit. Do you know of anything that will help hold them over until their stuff comes? They're eating and drinking and not being very lethargic but I know rats hide pain well.Absolutely I will help with your mixing and dosing.
Pain some rats hide, illness not so much. It sounds more like nasal congestion which is less serious for now.
I checked Jedd's site and their Doxyvet is out of stock. So you should order from Ladygouldianfinch.com instead.
Get the Doxyvet and the Enrofloxacin 10% for your rats
Okay! Will do. Also, are you sure the enrofolaxin won't hurt my younger rats? I don't know if I'm misinformed, but I've heard it's not good for younger rats.
also look for 1 cc/ml medicating syringes IF you don't have any on hand.
Both doxy and enrofloxacin are both NOT-pediatric friendly but since these little guys are going to have to wait for awhile to start treatment I'd rather not try the ped-friendly antibiotics and have them not work. I only use ped-friendly with very mild cases and have used both doxy and baytril on babies before. With these guys you can just use the enrofloxacin if they aren't too sick, but its good to get the doxy just in case you need it.
And you WILL undoubtedly eventually need it, lol. Unless, of course, you are lucky enough to have a couple of those rare rats which are resilient against Myco and are not too afflicted by flare-ups. I have had a few rats who never showed any symptoms their whole lives, but these are definitely the exception, not the norm.Both doxy and enrofloxacin are both NOT-pediatric friendly but since these little guys are going to have to wait for awhile to start treatment I'd rather not try the ped-friendly antibiotics and have them not work. I only use ped-friendly with very mild cases and have used both doxy and baytril on babies before. With these guys you can just use the enrofloxacin if they aren't too sick, but its good to get the doxy just in case you need it.
Both doxy and enrofloxacin are both NOT-pediatric friendly but since these little guys are going to have to wait for awhile to start treatment I'd rather not try the ped-friendly antibiotics and have them not work. I only use ped-friendly with very mild cases and have used both doxy and baytril on babies before. With these guys you can just use the enrofloxacin if they aren't too sick, but its good to get the doxy just in case you need it.
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