Cipro dosing assistance ASAP

[skippy]

Breazmai has the 250mg Cipro and needs immediate help preparing it and dosing it. Is anyone awake to assist?
See her post in this thread "Need Help ASAP-2 sick babies"
Thanks TSB Pros!

[Jackie in Tampa]

:thumbsup sorry just seeing this...

[kastillo]

You can't go by the chart in the book because the mg tablet is different from the ones listed because it's Cipro, not Baytril.

Jackie will get the dosing. I know it's a teeny tiny amount.

The general formula is

Dose = Animals weight in kg * Dosage
Strength of Drug

In question, the dosage is variable from 2.5 to 15 mg/Kg

AND the strength of the drug is dependant upon how many mg/mL you have, which is why it must be divided, crushed up and dissolved in so many mL's of water to get a strength of mg/mL.

I'm on the right track here??

[Jackie in Tampa]

You can't go by the chart in the book because the mg tablet is different from the ones listed because it's Cipro, not Baytril.

Jackie will get the dosing. I know it's a teeny tiny amount.

The general formula is

Dose = Animals weight in kg * Dosage
Strength of Drug

In question, the dosage is variable from 2.5 to 15 mg/Kg

AND the strength of the drug is dependant upon how many mg/mL you have, which is why it must be divided, crushed up and dissolved in so many mL's of water to get a strength of mg/mL.

I'm on the right track here??exactly... the book does not cover dilution..
you can use the dose chart if you make the tablet into a suspension of whatever the chart says it is using....
and that comes from the amount of water you add to a specific miligram tablet...getting the mg/ml:thumbsup
after that all you need is the weight in grams..


yes the mg/kg depends on what you are treating...exactly:thumbsup
an easy example... metacam.
for pain management, immediate treatment, short term... the advised HIGH SAFE dose for sqs would be 0.3mg/kg
yet for long term treatment of arthritus,
it would be much lower..0.05-0.1mg/kg...
you got it K!
all in the dilution..
for cipro, baytril, I have three standard dilutions I make all the time...
depending on weight of sq.
12.5mg/ml; 25mg/ml; and 50mg/ml
I can see the math in my head now..can dose in the air if I stick with these three dilutions...:D who fricken knew..
can't even balance a check book!!!:rotfl

[kastillo]

exactly... the book does not cover dilution..
you can use the dose chart if you make the tablet into a suspension of whatever the chart says it is using....
and that comes from the amount of water you add to a specific miligram tablet...getting the mg/ml:thumbsup
after that all you need is the weight in grams..


yes the mg/kg depends on what you are treating...exactly:thumbsup
an easy example... metacam.
for pain management, immediate treatment, short term... the advised HIGH SAFE dose for sqs would be 0.3mg/kg
yet for long term treatment of arthritus,
it would be much lower..0.05-0.1mg/kg...
you got it K!
all in the dilution..
for cipro, baytril, I have three standard dilutions I make all the time...
depending on weight of sq.
12.5mg/ml; 25mg/ml; and 50mg/ml
I can see the math in my head now..can dose in the air if I stick with these three dilutions...:D who fricken knew..
can't even balance a check book!!!:rotfl

Yay!!!
I just needed confirmation that I was understanding it correctly.

When I first checked out the charts in this book, I was like, YIKES! I'll never get that.

So, did yall get a dose for that little pinky runt??

[Jackie in Tampa]

Yay!!!
I just needed confirmation that I was understanding it correctly.

When I first checked out the charts in this book, I was like, YIKES! I'll never get that.

So, did yall get a dose for that little pinky runt??not sure.. I have not heard back anything... hoping they are okay, they are three hours behind me time wise... so it's stilll early in Wa.
hoping for a good update...:grouphug
btw, I sat in front of the book and charts for two years .. I threw alot of balls of paper away before it hit me one night..once i saw the light... it was easy...i still throw paper balls away.. but now they have the dose on them!!:D
I draw stick syringes:D