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Blood in urine and sticky lump

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Hello,

My 3 year old rescue guinea pig has blood in her urine/poo (not sure which). It first appeared last week and only for a day. It then stopped and has started again a week later. It could be down to their diet as I switched them from basil and coriander to kale?

This morning I was doing a check and found a long stringy poo with a lump on the end. The lump is clear/pinky and squishy and has the feel of semi dried pva glue. Anyone seen anything like this before?

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Please do not feed kale regularly - It’s too high in calcium and not suitable for regular or daily use. It is only suitable for one small amount and no more than once a week. Too much oxalate, calcium, nitrates can lead to bladder problems and stone formation.

The safe daily diet is lettuce, cucumber, coriander and bell pepper. They can have one cup of veg per day. Anything other than these veggies needs to be in moderation and rotation.
One tablespoon of pellets per day can be given.
Drinking water should be filtered in the uk as we are a hard water country.
Most calcium comes into the diet via water and pellets filtering water and keeping pellets limited are important.
The bulk of the diet needs to be hay.

Please see a vet for the blood in the urine if it appears again. There are several reasons for it and a vet would need to diagnose the cause.

The mucus in the poop reflects issues with the diet and hay intake.

Please ensure you are carrying out the routine weekly weight checks so that you can monitor sufficient hay intake.

The guides below explain everything further - the severity of poop related issues and what to do about them; the importance of the weight checks and stepping in with recovery feed if weight is lost due to reduction in hay intake; information on the diet and suitable daily food items

Wiebke

Thread 'Wiebke's Guide to Poops'

1 How the Digestive System Works
2 Poo Eating (Coprophagy)
3 Health Monitoring: Weighing vs. Poos Watching
- What does weighing do?
- What does the poop output tell you?
4 Minor Poop Issues
- How to deal with a minor tummy upset
- Funny poops: What do they mean?
- Caked on poops
5 Serious Diarrhoea
6 Impaction
7...
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Wiebke

Thread 'Long Term Balanced General And Special Needs Guinea Pig Diets'

1 The recommended ratio of food groups
2 Hay and fresh grass
3 Vegetables, fresh herbs and fruit with an illustrated balanced sample diet
4 Special dietary needs
- Urinary tract infections, bladder stones and sterile IC (non-bacterial interstitial cystitis)
- Diabetes and long term digestive problems
- Impaction in boars
- Pregnancy and nursing dietary tweaks (only visible to registered members who have accepted our no intentional breeding policy)...
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