I would like to add also that I've given 1mL of dex many times, and I've never seen a dog lose 2.2 kilos from 1mL.
Do you mean lbs? I said a dog can lose about one kilo over a day. Depending on strength of the drug and size of the dog. I have seen people weighing in a pound under from giving half a cc in the morning.

PS: I have highlighted more areas in color that people seem to miss.
Please read it over, and give any corrections, and I will tweak it again if need be. Thanks.
Think you can't highlight those text enough. It could be a fatal mistake to inject these dosages any other way than intravenous and then find out you can't hit a vein thus cannot give enough fluids. I think you made a typo on the minimum Dexamethasone dosage.
Seems I was wrong about the high end dosages. But it's a good thread anyway and I think the article only got better.

I have 3 questions regarding the subject.

1.
The second major side-effect of these drugs is that they are diuretics. This means they draw fluid out of your dog. For these two reasons we recommend that any time you use any of the above-mentioned drugs you use them concurrently with fluid therapy
When you use the high end dose of Dexamethasone; I suppose the dosage listed in the IV fluid therapy article will be increased?

2. Lot of times organs shut down and can take a while for the kidney's to start back working. If you're going to lose allot of fluids due high end dosages of Dexamethasone can't this be a big problem?

3. What do you guys think of Voluven in case of hypovolemic shock. http://www.nps.org.au/__data/cmi_pdfs/CMI9946.pdf