I am not familiar with Diarsanyl but it looks to be mostly bentonite clay and probably works similar to Kaopectate. Pedialyte is more like Gatorade but with more electrolytes and less sugar. It is used to help replenish electrolytes when someone has diarrhea or is vomiting a lot. - Steve N
________________________________ From: Dorothy Fitzpatrick [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>CS for Dog Parvo Is Pedialyte an electrolyte balancer like Diarsanyl? This is the sort of thing to always have handy isn't it? I know the vets way of using intravenous hydration doesn't work, as it just dehydrates quicker if anything. My vet is good and wouldn't mind trying a silver enema if he thought it would help, which is another way to go. I think what you did was excellent with a marvelous result though. GSE is something I don't have now in the cupboard (discarded when I discovered EIS) but I think I will get some in again. Plus I will keep the email just in case. dee On 21 Jul 2009, at 19:06, Norton, Steve wrote: We were in a hurry and I can't say that we had put a whole lot of thought into the process. We did have some backup ideas in case the oral use of the silver wasn't practical. She was prepared to use an ultrasonic humidifier to get CS in through the lungs or, as last resort, give the puppy a CS enema. In retrospect, my wife's idea of adding Pedialyte to the silver was a great idea, although she didn't know why. The electrolytes in the Pedialyte speeds up the absorption of the ionic silver into the body which is what I was looking for.. Using Pedialyte, I would have tried a 3:1 mix of EIS to Pedialyte and used a small sprayer bottle to lightly coat the mucous membranes of the mouth periodically. Like Dee suggests in her post. Personally, I would have doubled the grapefruit seed extract (GSE) in the mixture. Don't worry about the silver citrate. It is convenient sometimes as you can generate a high ppm solution for storage. But I still dilute it when I use it. In this case I thought it might be better to use and frankly we thought we didn't have much to lose. The owners could not possibly pay for vet care and we weren't sure the puppy wasn't already past saving. We were lucky. - Steve ________________________________
