SavyCavyGirl
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi! I want to put a Guinea pig first aid kit together in case of emergency, but I’m not sure what to include in it! Help! (Also what’s a good special guinea pig Christmas present? 
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Guinea Pig First Aid Kit
- Thread starter SavyCavyGirl
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This guide will help you First Aid Kit: Easily available non-medication support products for an emergency
Seeking prompt veterinary care for any health concern is the most important thing.
Seeking prompt veterinary care for any health concern is the most important thing.
SavyCavyGirl
Junior Guinea Pig
Awesome thanks
Betsy
Anniversary Herd
A couple of good free Christmas presents for guinea pigs are Amazon boxes with gp sized holes in the sides and paper bags - nothing more exciting than a paper bag to a piggy especially if filled with hay and/or small pieces of veg.
SavyCavyGirl
Junior Guinea Pig
Haha perfect! Sounds really easy. Thank you
melsey3
Junior Guinea Pig
I would also add honey, Baby food (fruit or veg, None with meat or pasta), 1ml syringes, talc or flour (for if you accidentally cut the quick when trimming nails ), poo bags for disposal of bodily fluids, cotton wool, and saline solution (just double check that one) for bathing injuries..
There would be little need to add baby food. A piggy who isn’t eating needs a fibre rich herbivore recovery feed such as critical care, not veg.
melsey3
Junior Guinea Pig
My vet has always suggested using baby food as well as the recovery food, more for energy reasons than anything else, and also to top up with vit c.
melsey3
Junior Guinea Pig
It is also useful if piggy refusing the recovery food, as it is more liquidy, and has good water content. Personal choice! But it has been a life saver for some of mine when a vet has been unavailable, and it is a first aid method, until something better can be given.
Mushed up pellets are the forum recommended alternative to proper recovery food in an emergency, not baby food. Yes they need water but it and veg isn’t gut stabilising whereas fibre is. It’s just something to be very careful with and very particular about the situation - there are medical situations where giving any veg could make things worse and stopping veg altogether while poorly and syringe feeding would be essential.
Adding in something sweet to a recovery feed or mushed pellets is fine to do (in situations where a piggy is still able to eat veg and under strict vet instructions) to encourage them to eat it (such as mashing up uncooked sweet potatoes, grated raw carrot, banana, grated apple) but fibre rich items need to be the main proportion of any syringe feeding measure, not veg.
Adding in something sweet to a recovery feed or mushed pellets is fine to do (in situations where a piggy is still able to eat veg and under strict vet instructions) to encourage them to eat it (such as mashing up uncooked sweet potatoes, grated raw carrot, banana, grated apple) but fibre rich items need to be the main proportion of any syringe feeding measure, not veg.
