scottymac
New Born Pup
Hi all, sorry, slightly epic text before finally getting to the point, thought it important to give the whole back story:
My 4 year old guinea pig has been very unwell recently, stopping eating and pooping & when she did poop it was tiny fragments, lying around all the time. We took her to the vet and he was pretty useless, saying he couldn't hear any digestion going on at all but didn't know what was wrong, then sent us on our way with a bit of metacam! In desperation, I put her in the bath as her record is 27 poops in 5 minutes in the bath and, lo and behold, 17 poops came out. After this she began eating again but still spent a lot of time laying under her blanket (guineadad fleece). To cut a long story short, after 3 trips to the vet, x-rays of her teethunder sedation, a little bit of tooth trimming, some meds to make her poop (emeprid), spending £30 on recovery food she ate once through starvation then refused to eat again, she still wasn't right and hadlost a third of her bodyweight. We then embarked on a 4 hour round trip to see the closest exotics specialist (Cumbria UK), who was also stumped as the x-rays looked ok, all of her organs felt ok, there was a tiny bit of bloat but nothing to worry about. Her best guess was to try very large doses of vitamin c as well as sticking with metacam and another drug for pooping (cisapride). 5 days later she's way more active, eating so much more , pooping normally etc. Last night she ate nuggets for the first time in 3 weeks, today she ate nuggets and hay for 2 solid hours
Finally getting to the point, all this laying around has given her horrible urine scald on her back legs. We use fleece with pee pads under the blankets, the fleeces are changed ever 2-3 days, the pee pads are changed twice a day but still she was clearly just peeing while laying around and whilst she is now eating ok, she's starting to show signs the scald is giving her pain. There's also the worry that left untreated it could develop into bumblefoot
I will be taking her back to the vet but after all of the bother we had with local vets being clueless by their own admission, scheduling 4 hour trips around work is proving a bit of an issue.
In the meantime, I'm after some advice.i was planning on bathing her feet in Epsom salts then using some sort of ointment. I have clotrimazole but I can't find anything anywhere about where this will help or harm. I've found a lot of recommendations for miconazole, but, from my limited knowledge, there seems to be little difference between the two.
After applying ointment is it best to leave to air dry or best to wrap in tiny bandage to stop moisture getting to feet?
Any advice is most welcome.
Sorry it's such a long message, it's just been a hellish 4 weeks for her, but, having been convinced I'd lose her 3 weeks ago, we can finally see light at the end of the tunnel, although despite eating a lot more, her weight seems to be dropping, not going up
My 4 year old guinea pig has been very unwell recently, stopping eating and pooping & when she did poop it was tiny fragments, lying around all the time. We took her to the vet and he was pretty useless, saying he couldn't hear any digestion going on at all but didn't know what was wrong, then sent us on our way with a bit of metacam! In desperation, I put her in the bath as her record is 27 poops in 5 minutes in the bath and, lo and behold, 17 poops came out. After this she began eating again but still spent a lot of time laying under her blanket (guineadad fleece). To cut a long story short, after 3 trips to the vet, x-rays of her teethunder sedation, a little bit of tooth trimming, some meds to make her poop (emeprid), spending £30 on recovery food she ate once through starvation then refused to eat again, she still wasn't right and hadlost a third of her bodyweight. We then embarked on a 4 hour round trip to see the closest exotics specialist (Cumbria UK), who was also stumped as the x-rays looked ok, all of her organs felt ok, there was a tiny bit of bloat but nothing to worry about. Her best guess was to try very large doses of vitamin c as well as sticking with metacam and another drug for pooping (cisapride). 5 days later she's way more active, eating so much more , pooping normally etc. Last night she ate nuggets for the first time in 3 weeks, today she ate nuggets and hay for 2 solid hours
Finally getting to the point, all this laying around has given her horrible urine scald on her back legs. We use fleece with pee pads under the blankets, the fleeces are changed ever 2-3 days, the pee pads are changed twice a day but still she was clearly just peeing while laying around and whilst she is now eating ok, she's starting to show signs the scald is giving her pain. There's also the worry that left untreated it could develop into bumblefoot
I will be taking her back to the vet but after all of the bother we had with local vets being clueless by their own admission, scheduling 4 hour trips around work is proving a bit of an issue.
In the meantime, I'm after some advice.i was planning on bathing her feet in Epsom salts then using some sort of ointment. I have clotrimazole but I can't find anything anywhere about where this will help or harm. I've found a lot of recommendations for miconazole, but, from my limited knowledge, there seems to be little difference between the two.
After applying ointment is it best to leave to air dry or best to wrap in tiny bandage to stop moisture getting to feet?
Any advice is most welcome.
Sorry it's such a long message, it's just been a hellish 4 weeks for her, but, having been convinced I'd lose her 3 weeks ago, we can finally see light at the end of the tunnel, although despite eating a lot more, her weight seems to be dropping, not going up
