How do you mix sucralfate slurry?

Answer 1

Sucralfate is a gastroprotectant that is thought to help with digestive upset by coating the stomach lining to prevent damage to the gastric mucus from high levels of stomach acid. The easiest way to mix sucralfate slurry is to pull the plunger out of the back of a 10 or 30 cc oral syringe, drop the pills into the body of the syringe, place the index finger of your left (non-dominant) hand over the tip of the syringe, fill the syringe halfway or so with water, put the plunger back into the body of the syringe (careful, it's a tight fit) then shake the syringe to dissolve the pills in the water. Then run a large stream of water from the tap and draw the rest of the water needed to make the proper volume into the syringe. Shake again, with your index finger over the opening of the syringe tip, then administer orally.

From experience, this is a messy procedure until you get used to the syringe flip in the middle - you can just barely get the seal of the plunger back into the syringe then have to carefully flip the syringe over and push some of the air out to get the plunger fully seated in the syringe again. Then, of course, most animals don't seem to like the taste of sucralfate and are more likely to spit it back out on you rather than swallow it.