Urgent please help: Peaches got hurt

[Sgt7212]

Okay so!
We took her to the vet, and the vet is happy that there are no broken bones. She's given us Metacam (an anti-inflammatory) to give to Peaches orally as they wouldn't let us inject it at home, and so the plan is to put it in a small weaned rat to give her each evening for the next few days. I'm not sure exactly how easy that's going to be... Would it just be easier to put it directly down her throat?
And would it be worth getting some Betadine to soak her in as well to combat infection from the outside?

In the late 90’s when I had my red tail boas, my female got a respiratory infection when we were moving. The vet prescribed oral antibiotics and I was wondering how I was going to do that because she was close to 6ft long. The first day was a pain, loading up the syringe, holding her head and wiggling the syringe into her mouth to squeeze in the antibiotics, then holding her mouth shut while I massaged her throat to try and get her to swallow it. Understandably, she was not too happy with the whole idea. But by day 3, she did not resist at all and totally went with the flow. I think it was 2 weeks I had to do that.

With that being said, I never thought of putting it in her food but I wish I had. I fed her live but could have probably done fresh kill with meds inside.

I only have 2 concerns/ questions with that method.

1) I’m assuming since the meds need to be administered every day, the prey item offered will be much smaller than normal to avoid her getting full and refusing it, and thereby wasting a full dose of meds, but their metabolism is slow so depending on how long meds need to be given she could still get full.

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2) Going back to question 1, their metabolism is slow so how would that affect the meds if they are inside the prey item? In theory she could have several prey items/ med doses in her stomach at the same time, so the meds may not get released the way they are intended as a steady dose daily into her system and that would render the meds ineffective OR could get released all at once as the prey digests. If that happens, what are the risks of overdose?

Does anyone know if any of those concerns are valid?