Baytril

[Jelliebaby93]

Hi everyone,

My little piggy Duncan had a uri and so was given baytril and metacam. Luckily within a couple of days he perked up and recovered.

Unfortunately he gave the uri to his pal Delilah. She started croaking and so the vet advised I do the same process. She had some baytril about 3pm and by 8am the next morning she wouldn’t eat.

Does the appetite suppressant work that fast or was it the illness?

Unfortunately even though I tried with critical care the next day and through the night she didn’t make it and she kept spitting critical care back out near the end so she clearly wasn’t swallowing it.

I just can’t help but feel that there’s something else I should have done or maybe not given the baytril?

Also now I’ve become a bit obsessive with my other pigs. When I pick them up I can hear them breathing- is that normal? One of them is silent and I can’t hear a thing.

 

[Wiebke]

Hi everyone,

My little piggy Duncan had a uri and so was given baytril and metacam. Luckily within a couple of days he perked up and recovered.

Unfortunately he gave the uri to his pal Delilah. She started croaking and so the vet advised I do the same process. She had some baytril about 3pm and by 8am the next morning she wouldn’t eat.

Does the appetite suppressant work that fast or was it the illness?

Unfortunately even though I tried with critical care the next day and through the night she didn’t make it and she kept spitting critical care back out near the end so she clearly wasn’t swallowing it.

I just can’t help but feel that there’s something else I should have done or maybe not given the baytril?

Also now I’ve become a bit obsessive with my other pigs. When I pick them up I can hear them breathing- is that normal? One of them is silent and I can’t hear a thing.

Hi

Total loss of appetite can be pretty instant in the more sensitive cases but it also depends on the illness. Unfortunately, when that happens, it can take a while to rebalance the gut microbiome or at the very extreme, it will never fully happen. It can also be a mix between the illness and an adverse reaction to an antibiotic.

The need to breathe comes before the need to drink and only thirdly the need to eat. If breathing is laboured, the appetite will become suppressed and then the need to drink; this is why serious respiratory infections of any kind are basically a double whammy and can be so dangerous.

I would not obsess but continue to keep an eye on your piggies. Unfortunately, exposure has now happened. Normally, with a standard bacterial URI, healthy companions can fend off the bacteria with their immune system but it depends on what you are exactly up against - there are some nastier germs around.
Make sure that they are they are kept warm and in stable conditions as much as possible.

Please step in with full on feeding support. I am very sorry.

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