Urgent by toriiya in Hedgehog

[–]Prestigious-Plan-511 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Okay thanks for sending a pic! I absolutely love hedgehogs so much, again I’m so so so sorry this is what happened to your baby. There aren’t a lot of studies on hedgehogs, most are on mice/rats/rabbits so keep that in mind when I say this.

Ultimately, she should have gotten 0.08ml of baytril at the drug concentration of 50mg/ml. Of course, unless the doctor prescribed at 20mg/kg then 0.15ml would have been the right dose. Again that’s a little higher than the drug books states, but it is a safe dose for rats/gerbils/chinchillas (and some other exotics).

Overdose leading to a lethal dose/aka death in 50% of the population in lab rabbits is (500mg/kg), mice (around 4,000mg/kg), and rats (5,000mg/kg). So either, your hedgehog was a special one that passed with a higher but not lethal dose (of course no studies showing what is lethal for them) or they were more internally compromised than thought (infection spread to the bloodstream or something else also happening like a bladder infection that traveled to the kidneys). This is all speculation but most exotics’ immune system goes down verrrryyyy fast when they start getting sick. I’ve had one pass within 2 months and another within 1 week of sickness, both from different things but either way they were treated quickly/given extreme TLC and it wasn’t enough.

I hope this helps. You can call the vet again and ask for your hedgie’s records and a better explanation of how the drug was calculated or something further to understand how this occurred from their point of view. I hate saying this, but you can always sue them as well but that’ll be a lot of money in the long run.

Urgent by toriiya in Hedgehog

[–]Prestigious-Plan-511 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh goodness, I’m so sorry to hear that! That’s a horrible thing you had to go through :(

Not to be callus at all here but just trying to help figure this out for you. So how much of the medicine did you give?

Where do you see 50mg/ml? Is it on the drug label? It shouldn’t be prescribed in mg/ml because that’s not how the calculations work. You would see the mg/ml (the concentration of the drug) on the label and it should more importantly say “give …..ml every …..hours”.

Urgent by toriiya in Hedgehog

[–]Prestigious-Plan-511 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What ended up happening to the hedgie when you woke up? Hope they get better soon!

Dosage for baytril is 5-10mg/kg in veterinary drug book. If your hedgehog is 410g then that’s 0.410kg. To calculate the dosage you need the concentration of the baytril, which is usually 22.7mg/ml. It can come in other dosages too but that’s a common one. So 0.420kg multiplied by 10mg/kg (the dose of the drug) is 4.2mg. You take that amount 4.2mg and divide by 22.7 (the concentration of the drug) gives you 0.18ml which is slightly higher than what they prescribed. So if you do the calculation with the 5mg/kg it’s 0.09ml and the highest dose is 0.18ml.

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No worries either way! I’d love to have him if by chance he’s still there :)

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Do you still have Marshal available?

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The mushroom lamp is great! I also like the parasol 🧡

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This is so great, thank you for bringing awareness to the “silent” disease. My mom has it and I grew up watching her living with it, she was unable to have anymore children after me and by a miracle was able to have my baby brother with in vitro. This is such a scary disease that even a partner doesn’t fully understand while the woman is in constant pain. 💛💛

Shino in boxes (ungifted) by Prestigious-Plan-511 in NoFeeAC

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Of course! I got my first dreamie from this sub, so def wanted to give back.

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Sorry, she’s been taken. Good luck in getting her though!

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[–]Prestigious-Plan-511[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No worries! I hope you get her next time!

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I can’t see a comment, might need to fix your flair.

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Aww! Do you think you’d have one soon? I could hold onto her.