Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (docusate sodium)

Species with Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (docusate sodium) dosing data (2 dose rules)

Species references:All Ball Python drugsAll Bearded Dragon drugs

Evidence levels across 2 dose rules

Each ExoticRx dose rule is graded by the strength of its primary evidence — see the editorial process.

Backed by 2 published sources

• · Carpenter's Exotic Animal Formulary, 6th Ed, Table 4.11 (Miscellaneous Agents Used in Reptiles): 'Dioctyl Na sulfosuccinate | 1-5 mg/kg PO154 | Most species/constipation, use 1:20 dilution'. The p.274 locator is REMOVED - the row is not on p.274, and this copy is an ebook conversion with no printed pagination, so the numbered table is the citable location.
• · Gillespie D. Reptiles. In: Birchard SJ, Sherding RG, eds. Saunders Manual of Small Animal Practice; WB Saunders, Philadelphia, PA; 1994:1390-1411. — Source: Carpenter's Exotic Animal Formulary, 6th Ed, p.273 — Carpenter's Exotic Animal Formulary 6th ed, Table 4.11 (Miscellaneous Agents Used in Reptiles). The copy held is an ebook conversion with no printed page numbers, so the table — not the page — is the citable location. — SOURCE EDITION: Carpenter's Exotic Animal Formulary — ISBN 9780323833929, https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780323833929