What you are saying is definitely true...I only gave the amount needed to get a 50mg dose. I suppose I misunderstood the question. It looked to me like there was confusion between cc and ml (same thing).



One other thing that you have to think about with oral meds is that you are going to lose some from the snake spitting it back up (unless you deliver it with a stomach tube) and the fact that the tube is going to displace quite a bit of the med. You will lose a lot of the med if you try to administer it without a tube(just the syringe). The further down into the esophagus you can deliver the medicine the better, directly in the stomach is best. One other danger with delivering it directly into the mouth is accidental aspiration of the medicine.



What I do with oral meds is to "preload" the syringe with an amount of water equal to what the tube will hold, then draw up the med behind that, or just add an amount of water equal to what the tube will hold to the meds. A #10 16" French Catheter hold about .7 cc. If I'm using a tube that holds .7cc of water and my dosage calls for .75cc of meds, then I have to compensate for the meds that will be left in the stomach tube. So, generally, in that case, I would use about .95cc of meds instead of .75cc. The other thing that you can do is draw up the med through the tube to the indicated value that you need on the syringe so that the tube and the syringe are full of pure meds, but whatever medicine is left in the tube will be contaminated, and will be wasted. If you dilute by an amount equal to the volume of the tube, you end up losing less medicine in the process.

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