>>Do you feel the oral administration of metro tablets in a food item to be contraindicated on the grounds of activation or absorption? On a few occasions in the past, I have seen the use of whole or partial flagyl tablets inserted into food items used with apparent success. I was wondering what your thoughts were on it's effectiveness using this mode of administration. Thanks,

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>>Kelly



Actually, my preferred method for administering Metro is with a stomach tube and syringe. It gets the medicine directly where it needs to go.



It was the idea of suspending the Metro in vegetable oil that I have my doubts about.



Although it's not always a viable alternative, from the literature I've seen placing metro in a food item should be a workabloe solution. If the snake is not feeding or is regurgitating, then it's probably not the best choice. I believe that absorption rate is going to be somewhat lower.
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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