Re: Dose Clavamox
I wanted to chime in about Clavamox on eastern gray squirrels and its effect on their GI tract. My personal experience with Trooper and Toddy, another female EGS member on the forum (Trooper is 7 years old and Toddy is 9 years old) is that Clavamox will produce some kind of intestinal upset, which will depend on the specific squirrel's gut beneficial bacterial flora. It must be supplemented with a combination of saccharomyces boulardii and lactobacillus acidophilus or bifidobaterium animalis. Yoghurts probiotics from the grocery store will not have enough population of the probiotics mentioned to have a timely effect with the dosing of antibiotics. Yoghurts can be used as a concomitant or additional treatment during or after the AB is stopped.
When Trooper got his first and second dose of Clavamox, his poop turned "pumpkin pie" color, granular in texture and very soft, borderline diarrhea but still formed as a pellet. So I began giving him one hour before or after, a mixture of 3 ml water or sweetened water, coconut water or any water they like and 1/36 tablespoon of the probiotics noted above mixed all together (I mix all three strains, put it on a small jar and keep in the fridge in their dry powdery form). Warm water works best at dissolving the yeasts, but not hot or they will die.
Also Clavamox must be given with food to prevent upper GI upset (mostly stomach and/or duodenum). The food must be given immediately before or after an AB dosing. The results were that after 12 hours of first inoculation of probiotics, his poops were perfectly formed, normal color, firm to the touch but with a small amount of sticky mucous film covering its surface.
The probiotics need to be administered at least 1 hour after the last dose of Clavamox is given and once more 12 hour or 24 hours (best) after the last dose of Clavamox is given.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Trooper's dad
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