Quote Originally Posted by Skiploder View Post
There are many other antibiotics that are effective against both gram negative and gram positive bacterial infections. Your vet should be able to recommend one. Do not take any dosing or medication advice from any one on any forum. We are not vets.

As Alex stated, more and more vets are veering away from Baytril as more and more bacteria are developing resistance to it.

While I understand that your vet wants to begin treatment now due to the lag in getting culture results, I am unlear as to why she just doesn't prescribe your animal an antibiotic that has a broad range of effectiveness while the culture is processed.
Last time I took my OTHER female in, she said that Baytril will do the job. I told her, don't you think I should get a culture? She said, "No, I've seen this plenty of times, Baytril will do the job". Then she handed me a small little bottle that she poured baytril in and put the label on it. It was once a day ORALLY 0.1ml until gone (lasted about 2-3 wks) My female is 2093 grams and I just didn't think that 0.1ml was enough. Oh well. I followed directions and sure enough about a week after the meds were gone she was all better. I did keep her in her bin on top of paper. She was placed over a heat pad. I didn't giver her a lot of humidity as I didn't want to cause the bacteria to grow and instead would rather 'dry it up' as the vet told me is best. She didn't have a water bowl in there because as soon as I would put it in she would tip it over. Vet said to take the water bowl out and offer it 2 times a day morning and night for about 20-30min each time to give her a chance to eat and not become dehydrated as Baytril can cause that in a snake and not having any water would be VERY dehydrating. So, I did all that and now she is back in collection and eating none stop. She is always hungry now. Which I am very happy about as she was on a 2 month fast.

I have heard that sometimes if you just put the female with the RI under a heat pad that she will be fine. So, currently the one that is sick is under a heat pad still with her Aspen bedding and a big water bowl to get some humidity going in there.

Last time I was at the vet I asked her if I should shoot them all up with a quick little dose as a 'prevention' of it INCASE others have it but not showing signs. She said she didn't know and would ask another person she knew somewhere out of state but she never got back to me.