Dog Metacam dosage for Guinea Pigs?

[Mama Squeak]

Hello. I am hoping somebody can help me. I have just been to the vets with Maisie who has been prescribed Metacam.
This is Metacam for Dogs.
It says on the bottle - dose for 6kgs daily.
I am just double checking the dosage - not sure why I don't fully believe the amount but my piggies have only had cat metacam in the past.
Cant find anything anywhere to show me what this dose is in ml. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you.

 

[Free Ranger]

George was on '4kg' dog (1.5mg/ml) metacam twice a day for a couple of years. That worked out at about 0.23ml each time so 6kg would be roughly 0.35ml I think... about a 3rd of a ml - equiv of about 1ml of cat (0.5mg/ml strength). Possibly more than you gave her before..?

George was 1.3kilo at the time. He's now less than a kilo because he's old and has a stone. He sometimes gets 6 dog 'units' in the morning and 5 at night. He likes it and has no side effects. He's always had metacam every 12 hours but the vet has probably limited the dose to mgs per kg of pig per 24hours... they have to make sure you don't OD piggy in case of kidney damage.

How heavy is Maisy and what's her problem... long term like arthritis? Short term like UTI?

 

[Mama Squeak]

Hi. Thank you for responding. Maisie is 1.2kgs, it is short term UTI. Both my piggies caught it and had antibiotics for a week, but Maisie continues to suffer just a little bit, so went back to vets today. If George was on 8kg dog a day at 1.3kg then Maisie on 6kg a day at 1.2kg sounds very similar.

 

[Free Ranger]

Hope the girls(?) continue to improve!
Sometimes antibiotics don't quite clear UTI and you have to go back for either a longer course of the same stuff or a different AB. But you'll know because when you stop the AB the symptoms will get progressively worse again. Metacam can help but if you see increasing symptoms like crying when peeing / dripping pee or wet bottom / blood in pee or stained fur at the back the infection might have not quite been cleared and more ABs will be needed.

Old George has a stone as I said. He is 6 and unfortunately it's his second one within a few months. But he is also finishing up a 3 week course of Septrin for a UTI. Resistant infections do happen sometimes. It was tempting to think his pain was caused by his bladder stone - I mean, these things are horrible - but once he started the AB his symptoms improved pretty dramatically within a day or so, and he continued to improve over the next 5 days. That's how we know it's an infection. ABs wouldn't make any difference to the pain from a stone knocking about in there. He's doing OK.

Good luck ladies x

 

[Wiebke]

Hello. I am hoping somebody can help me. I have just been to the vets with Maisie who has been prescribed Metacam.
This is Metacam for Dogs.
It says on the bottle - dose for 6kgs daily.
I am just double checking the dosage - not sure why I don't fully believe the amount but my piggies have only had cat metacam in the past.
Cant find anything anywhere to show me what this dose is in ml. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you.

Hi

Please fill the syringe that has come with your bottle up to the marking 6 kg - metacam syringes don't measure in milli-
litres but in kilograms of body weight.
You can split the dosage in two and give the syringe filled to the 3 kg marker roughly every 12 hours for better round the clock pain coverage.

All the best!