Rocky wrote in
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Tara said in rec.pets.dogs.health:

Vet
suggested keeping her on it for a couple of days past what
the usual treatment plan is since her results showed she
was so strongly loaded with the buggers.

Even lightly loaded, the common advice for giardia seems to be
double the normal dose period. I hope the Flagyl/metronidazole
works for you (it provided only a temporary measure for Rocky
years ago).

Another option is Panacur.


Really interesting to see this. Annie's on 625 mgs of Flagyll (split into
two doses per day) for 7 days. I have never dealt with this in a dog
before, so I assumed this was the normal dosing procedure. Is it possible
that this won't take careof it? Damn, that would suck.

Did the Panacur ultimately do the trick for Rocky?

Tara

Tara wrote:

Really interesting to see this. Annie's on 625 mgs of Flagyll (split into
two doses per day) for 7 days. I have never dealt with this in a dog
before, so I assumed this was the normal dosing procedure. Is it possible
that this won't take careof it? Damn, that would suck.

Did the Panacur ultimately do the trick for Rocky?


I can't remember what dose I did for Cala, but it did cure it thank God.
That's the bizarro thing about Giardia--the absolute explosive diarrhea
followed by several days of relatively normal stool. I didn't need panacur.

Robin Nuttall wrote in
news:isD7h.241240$FQ1.161595@attbi_s71:

Tara wrote:



I can't remember what dose I did for Cala, but it did cure it thank
God. That's the bizarro thing about Giardia--the absolute explosive
diarrhea followed by several days of relatively normal stool. I didn't
need panacur.


Glad to hear that you had success with the Flagyl.

Yeah, tell me about it. Explosive dirrhea is bad enough, but never knowing
when its going to kick in, and trying everything to alter what she's given
access to in the (mistaken) idea that there is some external control over
the cycle is crazy making.

I was even wondering if it was something in my water that she wasn't used
to. I'd started giving her only double filtered water to drink!!! Each
thing I tried would seem to help, and then....BANG....it would come back.

Its such a relief to know that I don't have to scour my brane for daily
solutions.

Thanks for letting me know it worked for you. I'm hoping it does for Annie
as well.

Tara

Tara said in rec.pets.dogs.health:

Did the Panacur ultimately do the trick for Rocky?

Rocky's giardia symptoms kept reoccurring, so I finally
contacted a research vet at the U of Calgary (the vet who
developed the giardia vaccine a few years ago). He said that
since the broader-spectrum metronidazole wasn't working, to try
Panacur for two successive treatment periods. That cleared it
up.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.