When treating tortoises with a 2.5% baytril antibiotic injections,does .05cc dose daily for for ten days sound about right or should it be every other day or every third day?They are all about 400 grams each.
Yvonne G said:He will read that he can use 8mg per kg of body weight, and 8mg per kg would be way too much of his higher strength medication to use on his tiny tortoise.
This is close. Actually what you have done is figured out what Oliver weighs in kilograms (50 divided by 2.2 equals weight in kg). You then need to take the weight in kg and multiply that by the dose (8mg per kg in your example). Once you know the dose in mg then you take that and divide it by they drug concentration to give you the amount in ml to inject!!!Sulcata_Sandy said:Let's just pay hypothetical so we see what 8mg/kg really means.
Case example:
Oliver the Sulcata. He is 50 lbs
50 divided by 2.2 is 22.7 mg. MilliGRAMS. Not milliliters. Ok, now that I know Oliver needs 22.7 mg's of drug to treat his URI. I have two bottles of Baytril. One is 22.7mg/mL, the bigger bottle is 100mg/mL.
Tim/Robin said:This is close. Actually what you have done is figured out what Oliver weighs in kilograms (50 divided by 2.2 equals weight in kg). You then need to take the weight in kg and multiply that by the dose (8mg per kg in your example). Once you know the dose in mg then you take that and divide it by they drug concentration to give you the amount in ml to inject!!!Sulcata_Sandy said:Let's just pay hypothetical so we see what 8mg/kg really means.
Case example:
Oliver the Sulcata. He is 50 lbs
50 divided by 2.2 is 22.7 mg. MilliGRAMS. Not milliliters. Ok, now that I know Oliver needs 22.7 mg's of drug to treat his URI. I have two bottles of Baytril. One is 22.7mg/mL, the bigger bottle is 100mg/mL.
Yvonne G said:Ok, forget the tortoise and his weight and just concentrate on the medication.
If I have the Baytril for large animals, or a higher strength of medication, isn't there more medication in a milligram of the medication than there is in a milligram of the Baytril for small animals?
If I boil coffee all day until its so strong it sticks to the side of the pan, isn't a milligram of that coffee stronger or more potent than a milligram of coffee barely boiled to make it colored?
Are you saying that a milligram of the 22.7 Baytil holds the same amount of medication as a milligram of the 100 Baytril does?