Advice and tips for giving miconazole

[alinas2010]

I cannot remember exactly if the dosage is 1/3 or 1/2 a suppository, but @azygous may chime in. Here is a link for the generic :
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-M...MIrvvX9PyTigMVB2FHAR3jYw8JEAQYASABEgJEZfD_BwE

I appreciate this very much, thank you. I am going to go find this this evening.

 

[alinas2010]

The miconazole cream is more cost efficient than suppositories. Dosage is not precise. I go by the seriousness of the yeast infection. For most cases, I use about half an inch of cream or a third of a suppository. For serious cases, I give an inch of cream or half a suppository. Give twice a day for seven days.

Okay, I will follow that advice. Thank you. I am unsure where I picked up 1mL 3x a day.

How would you judge seriousness of the infection? This hen still has an appetite, not for her feed, but for a few other things I can get her to eat like some veggies, eggs, canned chicken. Not a huge appetite but it is there, she is skinny, however. Not eating enough by any means. Her crop hasn’t grown a lot over the past week, but it has grown. It is a tich larger than a ping pong ball in the mornings and doughy.

The problem I am having with the cream is that I just cannot get it into her, although I did have luck freezing some and popping it into her mouth like a pill this morning.

 

[azygous]

We chill coconut oil to get it easily into a chicken, so freezing miconazole would also work. I take the tube of miconazole cream and pry open the beak and squirt the mouth full of it. I seem to end up with much less on me this way.

A moderate or light case of yeast will respond in less than two days to the miconazole. If by the third day there is no improvement, that's when I increase the dosage. You may also give it three times a day. But regardless of how serious or light the yeast is, you must treat for a full seven days.

 

[Debbie292d]

In the interum, so she's getting something between doses, I'd have probiotics in her water. That also helps, not to the extent of the miconazole, but it will help.

 

[alinas2010]

We chill coconut oil to get it easily into a chicken, so freezing miconazole would also work. I take the tube of miconazole cream and pry open the beak and squirt the mouth full of it. I seem to end up with much less on me this way.

A moderate or light case of yeast will respond in less than two days to the miconazole. If by the third day there is no improvement, that's when I increase the dosage. You may also give it three times a day. But regardless of how serious or light the yeast is, you must treat for a full seven days.

Oh! Do you ever worry about them aspirating, or is that sort of not as worrisome with the consistency of the cream?

Thank you for sharing all your advice and knowledge. I will for sure treat for seven full days.

 

[alinas2010]

In the interum, so she's getting something between doses, I'd have probiotics in her water. That also helps, not to the extent of the miconazole, but it will help.

I will for sure do this, thank you! Would you provide an option for plain fresh water, also?

 

[azygous]

Squirting cream into the beak is at such low velocity, no, I don't worry about aspiration.

 

[Eggcessive]

I think the suppositories also come with cream, in the ads I found.

 

[alinas2010]

I think the suppositories also come with cream, in the ads I found.

Thank you. I am going to go get some of those suppositories still, I would like to give them a try and see if they are any easier to work with. I did not make it to the store tonight as planned. Freezing the cream is a decent work around for us, but she’s so darn stubborn that sometimes it’s hard to get them into her before they get gloppy again.

 

[Debbie292d]

I will for sure do this, thank you! Would you provide an option for plain fresh water, also?

I don't when I'm giving them probiotic water, that's all they get for the day. It's up to you though.