Hello,
Yesterday I lost one of my two guinea pigs (4.5 years) due to calcified aorta, leading to heart disease. My vet thinks the original cause is a past unnoticed infection - one that caused inflammation of the aorta and then calcification. But I cannot find any info on the web for such a case. I read infection can lead to pneumonia, death and so on. And atherosclerosis is caused by high fat diet and so on but I cannot find anything about a link between the two. Does anybody knows anything?
By the way I have always fed them right, not with high fat food. About an infection, I may be guilty since long story short, for 10-30 days (but not nights) earlier this year I have let them walk on wet surface, since I didn't realize it could be risky. Didn't seem bothered because they had a dry spot but did not go onto it. Also, the pig has never showed any signs of respiratory infection.
I need to know what I did wrong.
Thank you in advance
Yesterday I lost one of my two guinea pigs (4.5 years) due to calcified aorta, leading to heart disease. My vet thinks the original cause is a past unnoticed infection - one that caused inflammation of the aorta and then calcification. But I cannot find any info on the web for such a case. I read infection can lead to pneumonia, death and so on. And atherosclerosis is caused by high fat diet and so on but I cannot find anything about a link between the two. Does anybody knows anything?
By the way I have always fed them right, not with high fat food. About an infection, I may be guilty since long story short, for 10-30 days (but not nights) earlier this year I have let them walk on wet surface, since I didn't realize it could be risky. Didn't seem bothered because they had a dry spot but did not go onto it. Also, the pig has never showed any signs of respiratory infection.
I need to know what I did wrong.
Thank you in advance