CAUTION: I don’t know anything about Albon or what is in the bottle your vet gave you. But if you know for SURE that the solution you have contains 127 mg/ml, then



This means that every milliliter of the solution contains 127 milligrams of the drug.



It sounds as if you were told to administer orally 50 milligrams of Albon per kilogram of patient body weight once per day for 3 consecutive days, and then the same dose once every 48 hours if the infection you are treating is still present.



Then the formula you need is



[dose of drug (mg/kg) multiplied by weight of animal (kg)] divided by concentration of drug (mg/ml) equals the amount of the solution to give your patient orally



So in this case



Let’s say you have a ball python that weighs 1500 grams. Divide that weight by 1000 to get the patient’s weight in kilograms (=1.5 kg)



To determine the weight (dose) of the drug to give to this particular animal, multiply 50 mg times 1.5 kg (=75 mg Albon)



Since there are 127 mg of Albon per ml of your solution, divide 75 by 127 to determine the dose in ml you need to administer (=0.59 ml)



For calculating drug doses we assume that 1 ml is equal to 1cc. So you would need to administer 0.59 cc, or a little over one half cc to a patient weighing 1.5 kg.



Of course, you need to plug in the actual weight of your patient to the formula above to determine the actual amount of solution to administer.

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