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Baytril and Bactrim/septrin

aly13

aly13

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My girl has a UTI..we asked the vet for bactrim as I heard it was better for UTIs and also has a lesser chance of upsetting their tummy. He said no, bactrim is worse for their stomach and baytril is better which is the complete opposite of everything ive heard online. She has almost been on it a week and we were planning for two weeks as apparently UTIs can take longer to get rid of but its disrupting her apetite and she is loosing weight (slowly). I am giving her probiotic an hour after it. Does anyone have any literature to back up that Bactrim is better for their stomachs or is the vet right and everything Ive read online wrong? This is also a vet who barely prescribes pain meds for them but there are no other decent vets within driving distance.
 
Baytril is the go to antibiotic and is well tolerated by most piggies with little to no disruption in appetite (it’s certainly the one I’ve been prescribed multiple times with no issue).

How ki has she lost

Are you syringe feeding her (critical care or mushed pellets)?
 
Piggies&buns said:
Baytril is the go to antibiotic and is well tolerated by most piggies with little to no disruption in appetite (it’s certainly the one I’ve been prescribed multiple times with no issue).

How ki has she lost

Are you syringe feeding her (critical care or mushed pellets)?
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Over the last few weeks she has gone down from 1kg to about 900g now. Our scale said 920-940 but the vet scale said 914 last week. Shes hovering around 900 now.

I havent stepped in with that yet because she is very resistant to being syringe fed like that..she is still eating pellets veg and some hay but clearly just not the same volume as before. Maybe i will try the new flavor of critical care on her later. Shes an aby and gets very annoyed already at having to come out for meds multiple times a day.

Thanks for the reassurance on the baytril..she also has a cyst on her side the vet squeezed some pus out and said it would be fine. She is also a CBS pig diagnosed last autumn and I just wonder if there's more to her current downfall than the UTI and antibiotics tbh. She was running around during floortime yesterday in good spirits but the weight loss still concerned me.
 
You step in with syringe feeding when weight loss is at 50g, as she has lost more than that then it means her hay intake (not pellets or veg as they jointly only count for 20% of food intake) has dropped too much. You can try offering critical care from a bowl or spoon if she doesn’t want to be syringed. It is important to stop her weight loss though.

Oh I see, if she had other health issues then that could be contributing.
 
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