Hello,
First of all thank you to anyone who any/all of this!....
A little bit of background, I have three guinea pigs; 2 sows and 1 neutered boar that I got from a wonderful local rescue. On the Friday just gone one of my girls had to have an abscess surgically removed (which I was stressed about because of the anaesthetic...) And since then my make guinea pig had increasingly loose stools ( so begun two days without veggies). Upon awakening on Sunday morning I found had literally turned to brown water just leaking out if him!
I weighed him and he was 125g down compared two weeks ago. I phoned the emergency vets (at my usual vet practice, which is the best vets in the Region I live in luckily) and for him booked in and brought him down straight away.
The vet said it was very difficult to say what's causing the diarrhea but said could be internal parasites so have me two medicines to treat common parasites to give him daily for 3-5 days each. She also gave me critical care powder, gave him a jab of fluids and a jab of painkillers and told me to continue with the probiotics powder I'd bought him from pets at home.
3 days on (now Tues) his poo is still like wet mud and he has lost another 100g he is still separate from his girlies as he is soiling things so fast (I'm doing a washload everyday just for him).
I've managed to get the meds down him but the critical care is near impossible, I've tried a few different holds and one works better than others but I can tell he is so uncomfortable and super stressed and I get a few ml down him at best. I'm trying about 5 times a day with the critical care (the best I can manage around work etc.) And am also giving his underside a wash daily too as he keeps getting in a mess. I tried giving him 'poo soup' from my healthy girl so will see if that can do anything too.
I feel stupid as it's only been three days but already feel like it's all so much and am struggling! Feel like I'm failing majorly with the critical care but it is honestly just so challenging for so many reasons. And the constant soiling, cleaning, handwashing and worrying about the other pets I have getting what he has is overwhelming.
I'm meant to be going on a cruise at the end of the week which is only adding to the stress, all my piggies will be boarding with the resuce I got them from so I know they will be in safe hands but feel like I'm just palming the responsibility off one someone else and adding to the stress of the poor lady running the rescue!
I'm thinking of booking another appointment with the vets for tommorrow or Thursday but feel like I'm being impatient but I would of thought he should've at least stabilised weight or seen some greater improvement in his poos/mood by now...?
Literally any input or comments or suggestions from anyone would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much for listening/reading!
First of all thank you to anyone who any/all of this!....
A little bit of background, I have three guinea pigs; 2 sows and 1 neutered boar that I got from a wonderful local rescue. On the Friday just gone one of my girls had to have an abscess surgically removed (which I was stressed about because of the anaesthetic...) And since then my make guinea pig had increasingly loose stools ( so begun two days without veggies). Upon awakening on Sunday morning I found had literally turned to brown water just leaking out if him!
I weighed him and he was 125g down compared two weeks ago. I phoned the emergency vets (at my usual vet practice, which is the best vets in the Region I live in luckily) and for him booked in and brought him down straight away. The vet said it was very difficult to say what's causing the diarrhea but said could be internal parasites so have me two medicines to treat common parasites to give him daily for 3-5 days each. She also gave me critical care powder, gave him a jab of fluids and a jab of painkillers and told me to continue with the probiotics powder I'd bought him from pets at home.
3 days on (now Tues) his poo is still like wet mud and he has lost another 100g
he is still separate from his girlies as he is soiling things so fast (I'm doing a washload everyday just for him). I've managed to get the meds down him but the critical care is near impossible, I've tried a few different holds and one works better than others but I can tell he is so uncomfortable and super stressed and I get a few ml down him at best. I'm trying about 5 times a day with the critical care (the best I can manage around work etc.) And am also giving his underside a wash daily too as he keeps getting in a mess. I tried giving him 'poo soup' from my healthy girl so will see if that can do anything too.
I feel stupid as it's only been three days but already feel like it's all so much and am struggling! Feel like I'm failing majorly with the critical care but it is honestly just so challenging for so many reasons. And the constant soiling, cleaning, handwashing and worrying about the other pets I have getting what he has is overwhelming.
I'm meant to be going on a cruise at the end of the week which is only adding to the stress, all my piggies will be boarding with the resuce I got them from so I know they will be in safe hands but feel like I'm just palming the responsibility off one someone else and adding to the stress of the poor lady running the rescue!
I'm thinking of booking another appointment with the vets for tommorrow or Thursday but feel like I'm being impatient but I would of thought he should've at least stabilised weight or seen some greater improvement in his poos/mood by now...?
Literally any input or comments or suggestions from anyone would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much for listening/reading!
