How to calculate an amoxicillin dose for a dog

How to calculate an amoxicillin dose for a dog

"Amoxicillin" is the semi-synthetic antibiotic entering into group of penicillin. Medicine has active effect concerning gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria (a salmonella, an escherichia, a pasterella, staphylococcus).

Instruction

1. Use "Amoxicillin" at dogs for treatment of the diseases caused by microorganisms, sensitive to an antibiotic: gastrointestinal diseases (enterokolit, enteritis, a gastroenteritis), respiratory diseases (bronchitis, rhinitis, bronchial pneumonia), surgical diseases (inflammation of joints, abscesses), diseases of urinogenital bodies (endometritis, an ureteritis, a metritis, cystitis, pyelonephritis).

2. Correctly to calculate a medicine dose, determine the weight of a dog. The single amount of "Amoxicillin" is 1 ml on 10 kg of mass of an animal. The maximum volume of medicine entered into one place should not be higher than 20 ml.

3. Determine the weight of a dog of the small size by means of a steelyard. For this purpose place her in a bag and weigh. For obtaining exact result weigh then an empty bag and subtract its weight from result of the previous weighing.

4. Learn the weight of a dog of the average size by means of bathroom scales. Take on hands of the pet and get up on scales. Remember the received result and be weighed without dog. Count a difference between the first and second weighing - it is and there will be an animal weight. Dogs of large breeds (weighing from 25 kg) are weighed on bathroom scales which are available almost in each veterinary clinic.

5. Surely wash up hands before performance of an injection of medicine. Stir up an ampoule, wipe the place of demolition with the cotton wool moistened in alcohol. After opening of an ampoule gather medicine in the syringe. To remove residues of air, lift the syringe a needle up and press the piston until on a needle medicine droplets do not appear.

6. Intramuscularly you enter "Amoxicillin" into a femoral muscle of a hind leg of a dog. Surely process the chosen place the cotton wool moistened in alcohol. Carry out an injection strictly perpendicular to skin, you enter a needle slowly and carefully.

7. Carry out a hypodermic prick in withers of a dog. For this purpose take the syringe in the right hand, and left delay skin in the withers basis before formation of a fold. Then make an injection. The needle has to enter skin at an angle. "Amoxicillin" should be entered slowly.

8. You inject drug hypodermically or intramuscularly once a day within 5 days. At animals the emergence of allergic reactions which take place after the end of application of means is possible. When developing a severe allergy you inject to the pet antihistaminic drugs and corticosteroids. Upon termination of a course of an antibiotic treat a dog with a probiotics.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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