Dosage seem too high?

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Visited the vet today with my 18 month old labrador and vet seems to think he has been bitten by an insect as he has a sore lump on his lip. The vet prescribed antibiotics (noroclav) and dog has to have 3 x 250mg tablets twice a day. Is it me or does this seem like a huge dose? Lulusdog does weigh 35 kgs.
Any thoughts?

That's quite high. Dose is 12.5 mg/ kg twice daily which equates to 500 mg twice daily for a 40kg dog. Query it.

I will ring the vets in the morning, thanks bakingtins.

Rang the vets, the dosage is wrong. The vet says it should be 500mg twice daily. Good job I checked.
Thanks again bakingtins. I am going to change vets as I have lost confidence in them now.

I think it's always worth checking drugs from the vet (or doctor). Vets and nurses are all human and we all make mistakes. Glad you spotted it!

Do ask your vet what procedures they have in place for checking drugs as they go out, and let them know that this incident is why you're leaving. If we ever lose a client for any reason, we like to know why so we can improve.
At our practice all drugs dispensed are supposed to be checked and initialled by two people once they are labelled with the script label written by the vet- very occasionally this goes by the board if consulting and reception is extraordinarily busy (but the trainee nurses and inexperienced receptionist staff must always observe it no matter how busy they are- they must show a vet or qualified nurse the bottle the tablets came out of or the blister pack, and the label).
Nothing leaves the practice without a label, even worming tablets and shampoo.