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tamara ensio
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Username: kaarina
Post Number: 60
Registered: 9-2008
| | Posted on Friday, Aug 28, 2009 - 2:26 am: |   |
Hi, what is the equivalent liquid bute dose for 2 grams of powder? Thanks |
tamara ensio
Member
Username: kaarina
Post Number: 61
Registered: 9-2008
| | Posted on Friday, Aug 28, 2009 - 4:20 pm: | |
Should clarify - liquid bute taken orally, in cc's or ml's. |
DianE
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Username: scooter
Post Number: 4797
Registered: 9-2000
| | Posted on Friday, Aug 28, 2009 - 6:05 pm: | |
Hi Tamara. I have never heard of using IV bute orally(I THINK I have read before that it can burn the mouth)...I have heard of and used IV banamine orally. Did your vet say you could give it orally?
Isn't there instructions on the bottle? |
tamara ensio
Member
Username: kaarina
Post Number: 62
Registered: 9-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 - 4:09 am: | |
I had never heard of it either.. it is strawberry flavoured bute liquid, to be given by the mouth... the initial instructions were 10cc 2x day then half then half but I wasn't sure what that was in powder. Strange n'est pas? |
DianE
Member
Username: scooter
Post Number: 4798
Registered: 9-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 - 6:27 am: | |
OH I'm pretty sure 10mls equal 2 grams of bute. |
tamara ensio
Member
Username: kaarina
Post Number: 63
Registered: 9-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, Aug 29, 2009 - 9:51 am: | |
That's what I figured but I couldn't get ahold of the vet to ask, many thanks! |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: dro
Post Number: 23639
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 - 3:05 pm: | |
Whoa, whoa, whoa, the equivalent dose would depend on the concentration of the liquid, until that is known so an appropriate dose can be calculated you should not use the product. Most injectable products are 200 mg to the ml (10 ml equals 2 gms) but this product does not sound like any injectable I have seen.
DrO |
DianE
Member
Username: scooter
Post Number: 4802
Registered: 9-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 - 3:13 pm: | |
Dr.O. I think you misunderstood, as I did at first. She knows she is to give 10mls of the liquid, just wanted to know what the equivalent in powder would be. |
Erika L
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Username: erika
Post Number: 1887
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 - 5:59 pm: | |
"Strawberry flavored"=not injectable, methinks... |
tamara ensio
Member
Username: kaarina
Post Number: 65
Registered: 9-2008
| | Posted on Monday, Aug 31, 2009 - 2:21 am: | |
Strawberry flavoured is what gave me a pause... A. I figured it must not be a standard injectible but hadn't really seen oral liquid before and B. I just haven't seen much strawberry flavoured horse stuff out there. Apple, molasses, alfalfa, whatever... but I thought strawberry was for people!
Oh, and the bottle states 100mg/ml I believe which makes it half the strength as the injectible liquid and 10ml would = 1g unless I can't add. Which is possible and maybe even probable under the stress of yet another laminitis episode combined with 7.5 months of pregnancy.... |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: dro
Post Number: 23650
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Monday, Aug 31, 2009 - 4:08 am: | |
Diane, to calculate the equivalent dose in powder would require knowing the concentration of the fluid.
DrO |
