squeakypigs
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My little piggie Hannah is staying at the vets tonight as my mum took her to the vets this morning when she noticed Hannah wasn't breating properly. She said it look as though Hannah was finding it hard to breathe and that after every couple of breaths she would take a massive gasp for the next breath.
The vet first thought it could be something stuck down the back of her throat as they said they could see something green down her throat and asked if they could Xray her. The x-rays show that Hannah has pneumonia and has quite a bit of fluid on her lungs. They are currently giving her baytril and something begining with D which looked like the word diazapam (not that drug but something sounding similar) to help get the fluid of her lungs.
Hannah has never been ill before and has never had to have any antibiotics - she is also just under a year old!
I am really worried as I have had 2 guinea pigs which have died of pneumonia - my baby Fluffy (was 6 though when she had it!) and Unclie Whiskey. When they both had it they went down hill very quickly. Hannah first went to the vets at 11 and I went to go and see her after work tonight at 6.
My mum and the vet said she is not having to take the big breaths anymore but is still very poorly. When I went to see her she was sitting in the corner and when I held her I could feel on my chest that her breathing wasn't right. Her mouth was also very wide open. I also noticed that her ears were sticking up more than they usually do too! Also after I held her I put her to the back of the cage near the food and she turned around and moved forward a bit which my mum said she wasn't really moving much this morning.
Has anybody else been in the same situation? I just hope that she makes it through the night and fights the pneumonia.
Another thing is that my mum asked the vet nurse about whether she could have caught this off my house rabbit as she read somewhere on the internet which says that guinea pigs can catch a bacteria a lot of rabbits have which isn't harmful to them but causes pneumonia in guinea pigs. She wasn't sure and said she would ask the vet about it. Has anybody heard about this too?
The vet first thought it could be something stuck down the back of her throat as they said they could see something green down her throat and asked if they could Xray her. The x-rays show that Hannah has pneumonia and has quite a bit of fluid on her lungs. They are currently giving her baytril and something begining with D which looked like the word diazapam (not that drug but something sounding similar) to help get the fluid of her lungs.
Hannah has never been ill before and has never had to have any antibiotics - she is also just under a year old!
I am really worried as I have had 2 guinea pigs which have died of pneumonia - my baby Fluffy (was 6 though when she had it!) and Unclie Whiskey. When they both had it they went down hill very quickly. Hannah first went to the vets at 11 and I went to go and see her after work tonight at 6.
My mum and the vet said she is not having to take the big breaths anymore but is still very poorly. When I went to see her she was sitting in the corner and when I held her I could feel on my chest that her breathing wasn't right. Her mouth was also very wide open. I also noticed that her ears were sticking up more than they usually do too! Also after I held her I put her to the back of the cage near the food and she turned around and moved forward a bit which my mum said she wasn't really moving much this morning.
Has anybody else been in the same situation? I just hope that she makes it through the night and fights the pneumonia.
Another thing is that my mum asked the vet nurse about whether she could have caught this off my house rabbit as she read somewhere on the internet which says that guinea pigs can catch a bacteria a lot of rabbits have which isn't harmful to them but causes pneumonia in guinea pigs. She wasn't sure and said she would ask the vet about it. Has anybody heard about this too?