October 17, 2005
We've been using a bath towel to wrap her in, but we're not always able to get her wrapped up; she's young and VERY squirmy. We have to be able to hold her secure long enough to administer 50 cc's of saline subcutaneously (takes a few minutes). We're considering ordering one of these, but I'm not sure we'll be able to get her into that, either. Also, I have to give her a liquid antacid (using an oral syringe), but she's terrified of having her mouth opened; the technique of pressing the jaws open makes her panic, much worse than I've seen in any other cat. I end up holding her by the scruff and trying to squirt it in the corner of her mouth, but I end up with most of it on me, and I'm afraid she'll get hurt from all the writhing she does. There may be no good answer for either problem, but I thought I'd put it out there anyway. Help me Monkeyfilter, you're my only hope.
The cherry flavoring makes me think there must be a market for low dose phenobarbitol for children, which just seems wrong in my book.
Epilepsy is not particularly uncommon in children, and although there are other less "hardcore" drugs for it now, they're hit-and-miss in terms of effectiveness... so barbiturates are still used in many cases.