URI?

[NewToPiggyCare]

Hey, guys.

It’s yet another health concern. I wish I could post on better circumstances.

Basically, my little on (Ziptie) developed this terrible wheezing today. He’s also been making this choking/coughing sound on occasion, but it hasn’t helped his condition. In fact, it’s only worsened his wheezing.

So I took my piggies to the vet two weeks ago for their first vet visit (I just got them a month ago). I was specifically concerned about a URI since he was making this light wheezing sound.

The vet checked him out, and found a minor URI. She packed me with some medicine and let me go.

So the symptoms were basically nonexistent, but I gave it to him for a week, as prescribed. He was all better, but now, only a few days later, he began coughing often (once every few hours) and started wheezing intensely when I fed him twenty minutes ago.

He stopped after he coughed/choked, but I’m worried he’s hiding it. Should I take him back to the vet, or ask for more URI medicine? The vet was kinda iffy about him having a URI, but just in case she gave it to me. Why did he only start wheezing after I fully treated him? He’s completely stopped now, but I‘m freaking out that he might be seriously ill and hiding it. Should I keep treating him with the
medicine?


If you could advise me, that’d be greatly appreciated. It won’t let me send his video (.mov files don’t work), but just know his wheezing will go away and then come back and then he’ll cough, and it’ll go away again.

Btw, just moved them to a new cage with fleece bedding, so could that be the problem?

 

[Piggies&buns]

Piggies cough if they eat too fast, they have narrow airways so haydust can irritate them, irritants in the air can also do the same as well as humidity having an effect. But as uri’s are a serious health issue you should always get a vet to check your piggy first and before looking to other factors, if you are concerned.

if a course of antibiotics isn’t long enough, then some bacteria remain, continue to multiply after the course has finished resulting in a resurgence of symptoms.

Fleece bedding often makes any coughing better because it doesn’t have the dust that disposable beddings have.
Hay dust irritating the airways is always going to be an issue though, so changing your hay could be an option after having him checked for a uri. But, if there was an issue caused by an irritant from previous disposable bedding, switching to fleece won’t necessarily immediately mean symptoms stop, it could still take some time.

As we can yet hear how your piggy sounds, all I can see is please do have your piggy checked by a vet again to be sure.

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