KelsoSo
Junior Guinea Pig
- Joined
- Sep 27, 2018
- Messages
- 11
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- Points
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- Location
- UK, North Lincolnshire, Scunthorpe
Hi there. I’m hoping to get some advice about my little boy, Milo.
Milo was taken to the vet 2 Sunday’s ago after I noticed a sniffle and loss of appetite. The vet diagnosed him with a chest infection and he was prescribed Baytril. 2.5% oral solution 100ml to be given 1ml twice daily. I was offered emeprid but I already had some at home. I asked for an injection of antibiotics straight away so it was in him and working.
Milo was taken home and settled. He went completely off food straight away so I started syringe feeding him every 4hrs, roughly 20-30mls at a time. This is still the case today.
After a couple of days of me thinking he was on a big dose because of the severity of his infection, Milo was getting worse. Very sleepy, diarrhoea and no appetite at all.
I stopped the Baytril and called the vets. A different vet checked the dose and confirmed that it was too much. She told me to lower the dose and to continue with emeprid to help with his appetite.
After checking online regards overdose and it’s toxicity I didn’t continue with the Baytril also Milos sniffle had stopped.
Milo improved. He started eating grass and dill. Not massive amounts but some. I still continued syringe feeding and giving him water with probiotics.
It’s been a few days now and he’s not doing so well. The diarrhoea is back.
What I want to know is shall I stop the emeprid and carry on force feeding but add more fibre and pro biotics? Also. Any other advice would be greatly appreciated.
The vets in my area really don’t seem that interested and the most I’ve gotten is, well there’s not much to do for guineapigs![Disappointed face :disappointed: 😞](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61e.png)
Milo was taken to the vet 2 Sunday’s ago after I noticed a sniffle and loss of appetite. The vet diagnosed him with a chest infection and he was prescribed Baytril. 2.5% oral solution 100ml to be given 1ml twice daily. I was offered emeprid but I already had some at home. I asked for an injection of antibiotics straight away so it was in him and working.
Milo was taken home and settled. He went completely off food straight away so I started syringe feeding him every 4hrs, roughly 20-30mls at a time. This is still the case today.
After a couple of days of me thinking he was on a big dose because of the severity of his infection, Milo was getting worse. Very sleepy, diarrhoea and no appetite at all.
I stopped the Baytril and called the vets. A different vet checked the dose and confirmed that it was too much. She told me to lower the dose and to continue with emeprid to help with his appetite.
After checking online regards overdose and it’s toxicity I didn’t continue with the Baytril also Milos sniffle had stopped.
Milo improved. He started eating grass and dill. Not massive amounts but some. I still continued syringe feeding and giving him water with probiotics.
It’s been a few days now and he’s not doing so well. The diarrhoea is back.
What I want to know is shall I stop the emeprid and carry on force feeding but add more fibre and pro biotics? Also. Any other advice would be greatly appreciated.
The vets in my area really don’t seem that interested and the most I’ve gotten is, well there’s not much to do for guineapigs
![Disappointed face :disappointed: 😞](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61e.png)