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Originally Posted by Woogie Man  If the sub-q solution has no glucose, you may not be doing the good you think. Most solutions are some type of sodium chloride w/out glucose. They help with hydration only. Not eating and not taking nutri-cal is not good. The baby's not getting any glucose or protein. You could try some karo instead of the nutri-cal. It tends to get into the system faster than nutri-cal, but this one sounds like it needs more intensive care than just that.
Chachi, I doubt that a vet could do IV on such a small one. The veins are too tiny. The fluids I'm mentioning would be most likely given sub-q. |
Oh that makes sense to me now that I think about it thats what they did to Chachi when he was little and had a bout of diahrea and they said he needed fluids. Thats been 6 yrs ago so I forgot