I'm a pharmacy technician and every pharmacist I've worked with has told me
that refrigerating Biaxin gives it an even grainier consistancy.  Being a
sissy about taking pills (You wouldn't believe the dirty looks I get from
doctors when I ask for liquid antibiotics instead of pills like a regular
grownup <G>), I've had Biaxin liquid personally.  The good part is that the
liquid that the granules are suspended in taste pretty good.  Something of
a fruit flavored taste to it.  The bad news is, the granules are bitter as
anything.  If I happened to get a granule stuck on my tongue when I took
it, I could taste the bitterness for hours afterwards.  So I wouldn't be
for anything that made the granules bigger. ;-)
 
Just as a general comment, if my gang has to take any medicine, I try to
get the prescription written for the liquid form.  Then I take it over to a
pharmacy that specializes in compounding medication for veterinary use (not
the pharmacy I work at, unfortunately.) and I have them add flavoring to
it.  There's a company that sells the flavorings to pharmacies (I believe
it's called Flavor-Rx)that has a list of flavors that can be used with
veterinary medications.  It seems to help somewhat.  Just make sure that
the pharmacy double checks that the flavoring you select can be used with
the medication in question.  For example, one of my girls was taking
Prednisone and I had picked out either a pear or a banana flavor for her,
but those flavors couldn't be used with Pred so I had to go back to the
drawing board.  Another very important point: if you do go this route and
have medications compounded for your ferret, make sure that the pharmacy is
aware of the ferret's medical conditions.  Sometimes sugar can be added to
these preparations, and if you have a ferret with insulinoma, you know
that's a no-no.
 
Laura
[Posted in FML issue 2875]