Benadryl For Snake Bite
Don Huston
5 ml has 12.5 mg of HCL (active ingredient)
So...236 / 5 x 12.5 = 590 mg of HCL
1 adult Benadryl tablet has 25 mg of HCL
So....590 / 25 = 24 tablets
If I assume that this 8oz dose (or 24 tablets) is for a 150lb human
then what would be a ballpark dose for a 900lb horse?
6 times or 144 tablets?
The reason I ask is the tablets would be easy to carry while riding
so I might as well carry enough to do the horse some good if necessary.
Don Huston
At 08:50 AM 6/23/2013 Sunday, you wrote:
>"Carry at least -2- 4oz bottles of childrens LIQUID Benadryl with
>you when you ride. Should you get bitten DRINK BOTH BOTTLES
>Immediately, 60% of the damage done by snakebites is done by your
>bodies own Histamine response. No you won't overdose if you drink
>two bottles... (remember its a pediatric mixture) but because its
>liquid you will absorb it faster.... Stop the Histamine response and
>you will suffer a much less intense reaction and have much less
>damage... Also it buys you about an extra 45 minutes to get help."
>Laney
KSherman
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>>>>The reason I ask is the tablets would be easy to carry while riding
so I might as well carry enough to do the horse some good if necessary.
I thought it was weird that the nose was the best place for a dog to get bitten...but then they can pant. I always thought that was the worst for a horse.
Angie
At 08:50 AM 6/23/2013 Sunday, you wrote:
>"Carry at least -2- 4oz bottles of childrens LIQUID Benadryl with
>you when you ride. Should you get bitten DRINK BOTH BOTTLES
>Immediately, 60% of the damage done by snakebites is done by your
>bodies own Histamine response. No you won't overdose if you drink
>two bottles... (remember its a pediatric mixture) but because its
>liquid you will absorb it faster.... Stop the Histamine response and
>you will suffer a much less intense reaction and have much less
>damage... Also it buys you about an extra 45 minutes to get help."
>Laney
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Susan Garlinghouse, DVM
They probably would if you crushed them up and mixed them with some water, though you can’t necessarily do the water-mixing part of it ahead of time, as it’s not always stable to remain effective for long. You could potentially get the capsules, dump them out into a pre-measured dose, and then mix it with some water and dose it that way if needed.
The dosage range for dogs goes higher than the 1 mg per pound mentioned in the blog entry (which was extremely useful, I’m hanging onto it for my own practice). You could go up to about 2 mg per pound without a problem, I do it all the time for dogs with mast cell tumors that like to release histamine when they get angry. If you were carrying the 12.5 mg/5 ml children’s formulation, then 1-2 mg per pound would be 10-20 mg per ten pounds of body weight, or 4-8 mls of the liquid.
There are also oral suspensions of benedryl available in higher concentration of 25 mg/5 ml (5 mg/ml as opposed to 2.5 mg/ml).
The published dose for horses via oral route is about half that of dogs, or about ½ - 1 mg per pound of bodyweight. Thus, a 1000-lb horse dose is 200 mls (about 4 dosing syringes) of the higher concentration 25 mg/5 ml benedryl. If you obtained and opened up some of the capsules, then you’d need about 40 of them. Probably closer to 50, assuming some will get dribbled out on the ground.
There are also 50 mg diphenhydramine capsules available from an online pharmacy. I don’t know if they carry 50-mg caps at Costco, etc. It doesn’t require a vet’s prescription. A 100-count bottle of 50 mg capsules will cost you about twelve bucks. So 25 of those capsules would be about right for a 1000-pound horse.
Susan Garlinghouse, DVM
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