Some info on making flagyl palatable, sent to me by Paula M., a
ferret-living pharmacist.
 
(It may not make sense to you, but it will to your pharmacist):
 
"...Flagyl (world's nastiest drug part II) - the formulation I use
involves the 250mg tablets, and you can make whatever conc you want,
usually for me it's 100mg/ml or 50mg/ml depending on what dose I am
giving.  For weasels, the smaller the amount the better, it seems to me.
Anyway, we use something called OraPlus to suspend the drug (crush in
mortar and mix with 5-10cc oraplus) then use a 50/50 split of orasweet
and syrpalta to dilute to desired conc.  This seems to work well as long
as you give the med at the front of the tongue (sweet) and not the back
(bitter), if you shoot it into their mouth, they gag....I even made a
paste out of it once with oraplus and mixed it into NutriCal, they
actually liked that one, but it's hard on the average person since there's
a lot of compounding to do and the dose could easily get messed up. ..."
 
Also a quick note on oral prednisone: "I highly recommend OraPred over
prelone or pediapred.It makes a world of difference (the only difference
between the agents is the flavoring, it's still the same 15mg/5ml conc of
prednisolone, but it tastes soooo much better and the weasels don't yak
it back at you).  Keep it in the fridge and it's even better..."
 
Thanks, Paula!
Bruce Williams, DVM
[Posted in FML issue 3567]