Foods To Mix With Medications

Here are some suggestions of foods to mix with medications (collected from several people).  It also serves as a list of foods you can try to feed your sick, elderly, or underweight ratty:

Applesauce

Avocado (mashed)

Baby Cereal (Oatmeal, Rice, etc.)

Baby Food

Brown sugar and carob powder

Cheesecake

Cream Cheese (Mine like strawberry flavored)

Ensure (or Boost or anything like that)

FerretVite High Calorie Vitamin Supplement - http://www.amazon.com/8in1-FerretVite-Vitamin-Paste-4-25-Ounce/dp/B000FPL0FE

Frosting

Graham cracker (moistened)

Ice cream

Lentils (cooked & mashed)

Liver (chopped)

Instant Grits

Nurti-Stat or Nutri-Cal http://www.petguys.com/-030521067720.html

Oatmeal

Oysters (ground)

Pasta sauce

Peanut Butter Medicine Balls (doesn't work with INJECTABLE baytril, you can't mix it up ahead of time)
http://ratguide.com/meds/figures/compounding_medications_figure_1.php   My ratties LOVE these and think they are treats!

Peanut butter mixed with jelly

Potato (Cooked & Mashed)

Pudding

Sour Cream

Soy Baby Formula, Baby Oatmeal, a bit of Strawberry Nesquik, some Banana Baby Food, and Soy Milk all mixed together.

Spaghetti O's

Sweet Potato (baked & mashed)

Vanilla soymilk mixed with vanilla protein and powdered baby food.

Whipped Cream

Yogurt

You can use these alone with medications or mix with other foods to help hide the medication flavor:

Blueberry Pancake Syrup

Butterscotch Syrup

Chocolate Syrup (dark/semi-sweet chocolate also helps with breathing)

Honey 

Karo Syrup

Maple Syrup 

Olive Oil will help hide the taste when mixing with other foods

Strawberry Syrup (Hershey's is really good)

IMPORTANT:  If you plan on using a dairy product to administer a medication, make sure it is OK before giving it to your rat.  For example, you have to be careful that you don't mix any kinds of tetracycline with a dairy-based product.  Also, if s/he has pneumonia, avoid dairy products to cut down on mucus.  

Mix only enough food to hide the medication taste so that they are more likely to eat it immediately.  Also, try healthy foods first then only resort to foods that are high in sugar or fat if the healthy foods don't work.

http://ratguide.com/meds/basics/giving_medications.php