Baytril Dose

[x-vic-x]

One of my buns has been given baytril for a suspected UTI, she has had an injection of metacam and baytril today and I have baytril for the next week starting tomorrow.

She has to have 1.7ml twice a day, does this sound right? It seems alot to me, the last bunny I had on baytril only had 0.4ml.

 

[Santa]

How much does the bunny weigh and what concentration is the solution (2.5% or 10%)

 

[x-vic-x]

it's 2.5% and she is 2.02kg.

 

[Santa]

According to my notes from the RWA conference, it is considered best now to give baytril as a single dose daily (because it works on peak concentration in the blood, not low levels all the time), of up to 20mg/kg.

If my maths is correct (and there's a good chance that it isn't, so hopefully someone else will check!)

...2.5% baytril has 25mg/ml (source: http://www.noahcompendium.co.uk/Bayer_plc/Baytril_2_5_ACU-_Oral_Solution/-23495.html)

So 20mg/kg = 20/25=0.8ml per kg of bunny.

So to get a daily dose rate of 20mg/kg, a 2.02kg bunny needs 2.02 x 0.8 = 1.61. It's usually rounded up which is probably how your vet came to 1.7ml but I personally would have expected that size dose to be once a day not twice.

Obviously I'm not a vet and I haven't examined the animal or decided why a certain treatment is best, but it might be worth at least querying whether it should be that amount just once a day.

 

[x-vic-x]

Thank you, I will ring in the morning to check. I saw a thread on here where the vets gave the wrong dose of meds, by accident so I like to check, if I'm not sure.