Vomit in guinea pig!

[jostin735]

Hi!
I have a male guinea pig that is a little over a month old.
This one has been expelling an almost transparent liquid through the mouth for a week approximately every 30 minutes.
He expels so much liquid through his mouth that his entire neck and belly get wet and it smells bad when it dries on his body.
The strange thing is that according to all the internet, guinea pigs do not vomit but I see that my guinea pig does, it stretches its neck when throwing out that liquid as if it were gagging.
I feel very bad for him. I had many guinea pigs and none of them got sick like that. And worse, where I live there are no exotic animal veterinarians.

These days I looked at his teeth and they are normal, they are NOT very long or crooked.
I also looked at the color of his urine and it is almost transparent with a yellowish green and white tone so it is normal, and the stools are normal "hard, brown and without worms".
He is very skinny I can even feel the bones in his back
and still eats but not as much "he only eats the most delicious parts of the barley fodder for him and very little alfalfa"
Today I gave him pressed guinea pig food so that my guinea pig's stomach does not fill with gas from eating little and I also gave him a little water with vitamin C with a syringe to see if he recovers since he is getting worse little by little every day.
Please help me save my guinea pig

 

[Wiebke]

Hi!
I have a male guinea pig that is a little over a month old.
This one has been expelling an almost transparent liquid through the mouth for a week approximately every 30 minutes.
He expels so much liquid through his mouth that his entire neck and belly get wet and it smells bad when it dries on his body.
The strange thing is that according to all the internet, guinea pigs do not vomit but I see that my guinea pig does, it stretches its neck when throwing out that liquid as if it were gagging.
I feel very bad for him. I had many guinea pigs and none of them got sick like that. And worse, where I live there are no exotic animal veterinarians.

These days I looked at his teeth and they are normal, they are NOT very long or crooked.
I also looked at the color of his urine and it is almost transparent with a yellowish green and white tone so it is normal, and the stools are normal "hard, brown and without worms".
He is very skinny I can even feel the bones in his back
and still eats but not as much "he only eats the most delicious parts of the barley fodder for him and very little alfalfa"
Today I gave him pressed guinea pig food so that my guinea pig's stomach does not fill with gas from eating little and I also gave him a little water with vitamin C with a syringe to see if he recovers since he is getting worse little by little every day.
Please help me save my guinea pig

Hi and welcome

Saliva is constantly produced by glands in the mouth. It is most likely that your piggy is either unable to swallow or there is a blockage somewhere in the digestive tract from the back of the mouth to the stomach that prevents the saliva fluid from passing, so the only way for it is come back out via the mouth. This is not the same as bringing up the contents of the stomach (which is what vomiting is).
Unfortunately, I cannot tell you what is causing it - over the years, I have had piggies with a swelling at the back of the throat, the swelling from a throat infection closing the esophagus and a piggy that was unable to swallow from likely neurological issues. Yours can have yet another cause.

However something very serious is not right. The fact that your boy has lost massively weight means that he is not able to eat enough, especially hay, which should make around 80% of the daily food intake and which you cannot control by eye. Only your kitchen scales can tell you the true story.
Weight - Monitoring and Management

If you try to support feed, please very cautious and only give him a little; if comes back up quickly again, then it means that he is unable to process it.
All About Syringe Feeding and Medicating Guinea Pigs with Videos and Pictures
Emergency and Crisis Care as well as Bridging Care until a Vet Appointment

I am keeping my fingers firmly crossed!

 

[weepweeps]

I’m sorry your piggy is so unwell. Have you got a normal vet nearby you could take him to? Sending healing vibes

 

[jostin735]

Hi and welcome

Saliva is constantly produced by glands in the mouth. It is most likely that your piggy is either unable to swallow or there is a blockage somewhere in the digestive tract from the back of the mouth to the stomach that prevents the saliva fluid from passing, so the only way for it is come back out via the mouth. This is not the same as bringing up the contents of the stomach (which is what vomiting is).
Unfortunately, I cannot tell you what is causing it - over the years, I have had piggies with a swelling at the back of the throat, the swelling from a throat infection closing the esophagus and a piggy that was unable to swallow from likely neurological issues. Yours can have yet another cause.

However something very serious is not right. The fact that your boy has lost massively weight means that he is not able to eat enough, especially hay, which should make around 80% of the daily food intake and which you cannot control by eye. Only your kitchen scales can tell you the true story.
Weight - Monitoring and Management

If you try to support feed, please very cautious and only give him a little; if comes back up quickly again, then it means that he is unable to process it.
All About Syringe Feeding and Medicating Guinea Pigs with Videos and Pictures
Emergency and Crisis Care as well as Bridging Care until a Vet Appointment

I am keeping my fingers firmly crossed!

hello.
I couldn't take him to the vet
But apparently my guinea pig is improving because now I see her a little more active and she eats a little more. Although he continues to expel some slime but very little, he even gets annoyed when I take time to give him his food haha, he makes noise with his front teeth.
Now his entire belly and crotch are dirty from the drool with remains of the liquid from his food that dried there when he drooled a lot.
I will wait 5 days for him to fully recover to bathe him with baby shampoo.
I also tell you that before my guinea pig got sick he lived in a large cage with Australian parakeets, some Australian parakeets came down and groomed his hair haha so there was no problem but after a few days I noticed something strange in my guinea pig, because he did not eat a lot and my whole neck was wet. After that my guinea pig lived in a large pesera with shavings that I bought in a pet store but as the days passed I did not see it improve, it only got worse and at that moment I took it out of there and let it walk around my room and giving it special care as i told you in this thread

 

[Wiebke]

hello.
I couldn't take him to the vet
But apparently my guinea pig is improving because now I see her a little more active and she eats a little more. Although he continues to expel some slime but very little, he even gets annoyed when I take time to give him his food haha, he makes noise with his front teeth.
Now his entire belly and crotch are dirty from the drool with remains of the liquid from his food that dried there when he drooled a lot.
I will wait 5 days for him to fully recover to bathe him with baby shampoo.
I also tell you that before my guinea pig got sick he lived in a large cage with Australian parakeets, some Australian parakeets came down and groomed his hair haha so there was no problem but after a few days I noticed something strange in my guinea pig, because he did not eat a lot and my whole neck was wet. After that my guinea pig lived in a large pesera with shavings that I bought in a pet store but as the days passed I did not see it improve, it only got worse and at that moment I took it out of there and let it walk around my room and giving it special care as i told you in this thread

Have you considered that your piggy may have picked up an illness transmitted either directly or via living in their excrement, inhaling it and picking up particles of it with their food?

Unfortunately, we do not have much practical experience with those kinds of diseases in guinea pigs on here. I know that guinea pigs can catch psittacosis from birds but I do not know what symptoms it causes in guinea pigs - these symptoms can differ between species.

But I am tagging in our specialist on parasites and transmittable diseases who will likely know more, including symptoms and any treatment. She is unfortunately not able to come on here daily. @PigglePuggle

 

[PigglePuggle]

If piggy has been living with birds then I would strongly suspect Chlamydia infection. Chlamydia psittaca is a bird pathogen which unfortunately also infects other species- humans, koalas, livestock for sure, and on close contact most likely guinea pigs.
We may be more familar with thinking about Chlamydia as a sexually transmitted infection in humans, but there are 12-14 different strains of chlamydia in different animals- symptoms range from eye infections, gut problems, urinary problems, joint problems, to encephalitis.
Also protozoan parasites (single celled paradites like amoeba) can be shed by birds and infect mammals.
This is unlikely to be worms- but may be a serious bacterial or protozoan infection requiring treatment with very specific antibiotics (such as doxycycline, this in itself can make piggies quite ill and requires vet care and probiotics and supplementary syringe feeding while the treatment is taking place) or metronidazole (again, risky without vet supervision and a correct diagnosis and very precise dosing).
Mixed species interactions, such as guinea pigs being housed with birds, have no real benefit to piggy and carry huge risks of diseases jumping species- diseases are always worse, in the wrong host animal, and this sort of species jumping also increases the risk of a pathogen being pre-disposed to jump again- for example, to a human...

 

[Wheekallweek]

Honestly I really think your piggy needs to see a vet ASAP. As the others have said, guinea pigs cannot physically be sick, it's not possible. It could be saliva, it could be that your piggy is struggling to swallow which might explain the weight loss. I hope your piggy gets better soon