Aspiration Pneumonia help plz

[im_scarab]

I have a 14-15 week old Fl grey squirrel that has aspiration pneumonia. I was told to buy baytril but I am out of town and only have cephalexin. Will cephalexin work? I panicked and gave him what I could only eyeball to be 15-20 mg. Can he overdose on antibiotic? He should be around 190 grams but I won’t be able to get a scale till tomorrow. I was told 10-15 in a steamy bathroom might help but he was coughing a little bit and breathing from his mouth sometimes and idk if that’s helping or hurting. He barely wants to move and only wants to be held.

[CritterMom]

If you can supply us with a reasonably accurate weight and the size in milligrams of a WHOLE pill of the cephalexin, we can give you correct dosing. Scraping a pill and hoping for the best is NOT the answer. Once we get that info, all you will need is to have a 1ml syringe to use to measure the amount of dilution and then then each dose. Cephalexin isn't the best for this but it does work.

[im_scarab]

He weighs 386.5 grams and I have 500 mg capsules, which have powder inside of them.

[CritterMom]

Dosing sent by PM.