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Subject: Medication Tip
Posted by Karen on September 15, 1998 at 18:41:22:

My female has been sick with an infection in the female
track. My Vet gave me some liquid antibotics for her. If
any of you have ever had to give a glider oral medication,
you know what a hard time it is to get them to open their
mouth so that you can drop the medication in using a
syringe or eye dropper. I hated putting Mama-g thru that
ordeal when she already did not feel good. I had an idea
last weekend the I thought I would share should any of you
need to give the medication orally. I filled the syringe
that the vet gave me with the correct amount of medicine and
then got a syringe that diabetics use and filled it from the
vets syringe so that I would know the proper dosage as the
syringes are not calculated the same. Once I had that
figured out, I took some corn which is her favorite and
put the medicine in several of the pieces of corn. I did not
know if she would eat it or not but...she did and did not
mind the medicine in the corn. If any one has any other
ideas I would appreciate some alternatives should she decide
not to eat the medicine corn. I also put some of the meds
in her peas and she ate that as well.

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