Flagyl (aka metronidazol) comes in a variety of dosage concentrations but if you order it from the health care section of www.beanfarm.com then it will be 250mg/kg of body weight. The scales can be purchased fairly cheeply from office depot. A postage scale will do nicely. Using the medication obtained from the beanfarm, mix one capsule with 5ml (5cc) of deionized water. If it does not desolve readily you may try dissolving it in a nonpolar solution such as 5ml (5cc) of vegetable oil (not to me administered in large amounts)! The medication needs to be fully disolved. This will yeild an oral suspension of 50mg per every 1.0ml (1.0cc) of liquid extracted. At a dosage of 50mg/1kg of body weight, an animal weighing 1kg (or 1,000g) should receive a 1ml (1cc) dosage of the suspension orally. Supposing the animal weighs 0.5kg (500g), then give have the dosage meaning 0.5ml (0.5cc) of the oral suspension.



As you can see this is very complicated and risky! Reptiles do not process medication/toxins efficianlt. I have given you this information as general knowlege not intended for use! I do not reccomend doing this yourself! Especially if you lack the experience! It is very easy to overdose your pet and I highly reccomend that you see a veterinarian and that you not attempt this yourself!

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• How do I prepare FLAGYL for dosage? - verbal, Thu Nov 18 16:39:18 2004
• RE: How do I prepare FLAGYL for dosage? - oldherper, Mon Nov 22 07:51:52 2004
• RE: How do I prepare FLAGYL for dosage? - prevetherper, Mon Nov 22 22:36:49 2004
• RE: How do I prepare FLAGYL for dosage? - oldherper, Tue Nov 23 06:29:16 2004
• Oldherper, method of metronidazole administration..... - Kelly_Haller, Tue Nov 23 13:26:13 2004
• RE: Oldherper, method of metronidazole administration..... - oldherper, Tue Nov 23 14:31:50 2004
• Thanks, I did forget to qualify, that if the snake was feeding. n/p - Kelly_Haller, Tue Nov 23 16:39:19 2004
• RX - joeysgreen, Fri Dec 10 05:05:40 2004