LOL @ baths ... (+ oh yeah, meds)

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Posted by iZ's mom on May 26, 2000 at 17:43:09:

In Reply to: Interesting reading material posted by Iguanamomma on May 26, 2000 at 14:08:25:

it's the opposite at this house! iZ loves it (most days) but the dog!!! OMG, you'd think he was dying when you get water on him ... unless of course it's raining, playing in the rain doesn't make puppies melt i guess! LOL

anyway ... yeah, that article was filled with way too many medical words for easy reading ... *whew* ... but yes, Gelusil + Amphojel work 'ok' but do have aluminum in them and you don't want to give a renal patient aluminum if ya don't have to ... Calcium carbonate sounds good! will work to bind phosphorus *and* supplement his calcium intake at the same time ~ kewl! less pills + meds to hide in his food!

dosage ... *whew* ... yeah, i go by the assumption that human adult doses are based on at the very least 150 pounds ... and with iZ back down to 9 pounds, unless i can find something else to go by, i'm gonna start at 1/20th the human dose and see how that goes ...

am worried that the calcium is gonna constipate him + don't really wanna deal with *that* again! Dr. Frye recommended using 'fur-ball' remedy for constipation ... hmmmm???? i'd get the kind made for bunnies rather than for cats tho, since buns are vegens ... *sigh* ... still more to research!

anyway again ... i'm getting pretty good at grinding up tablets and using my teeny tiny measure to figure the dose! i'm in trouble if my house ever gets raided! all the syringes and little bottles of white powder lined up on the kitchen counter!!! "sure lady, it's iguana medicine ... uh huh ... come along quietly now"

on the positive side to all this, there has been a *huge* reduction in iZ's stress level! the silver has no taste (to me) + at least not an unpleasant one to iZ and so i open his mouth and give him a squirt and he looks at me like "what?! that's it?!! kewl!!!"

ok ~ back to work!

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: it's the opposite at this house! iZ loves it (most days) but the dog!!! OMG, you'd think he was dying when you get water on him ... unless of course it's raining, playing in the rain doesn't make puppies melt i guess! LOL : anyway ... yeah, that article was filled with way too many medical words for easy reading ... *whew* ... but yes, Gelusil + Amphojel work 'ok' but do have aluminum in them and you don't want to give a renal patient aluminum if ya don't have to ... Calcium carbonate sounds good! will work to bind phosphorus *and* supplement his calcium intake at the same time ~ kewl! less pills + meds to hide in his food! : dosage ... *whew* ... yeah, i go by the assumption that human adult doses are based on at the very least 150 pounds ... and with iZ back down to 9 pounds, unless i can find something else to go by, i'm gonna start at 1/20th the human dose and see how that goes ... : am worried that the calcium is gonna constipate him + don't really wanna deal with *that* again! Dr. Frye recommended using 'fur-ball' remedy for constipation ... hmmmm???? i'd get the kind made for bunnies rather than for cats tho, since buns are vegens ... *sigh* ... still more to research! : anyway again ... i'm getting pretty good at grinding up tablets and using my teeny tiny measure to figure the dose! i'm in trouble if my house ever gets raided! all the syringes and little bottles of white powder lined up on the kitchen counter!!! "sure lady, it's iguana medicine ... uh huh ... come along quietly now" : on the positive side to all this, there has been a *huge* reduction in iZ's stress level! the silver has no taste (to me) + at least not an unpleasant one to iZ and so i open his mouth and give him a squirt and he looks at me like "what?! that's it?!! kewl!!!" : ok ~ back to work!

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