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Originally Posted by Slave to the Wheek  Healthy Pigs DO NOT make hacking sounds or any sound at all while they are eating or drinking or pooing.
Antibiotics are not going to hurt your pig if she doesn't have a URI. The vet prescribed them so that they could RULE OUT the URI. If it's not a URI, then the AB's won't help the sounds and it's something else. If the vet prescribed an AB, it means that something is wrong.
It's the way dr.s work. They start with the most common thing, and then try to rule them out before going to the next thing. If you were prescribed an AB you need to get good veterinary advice. For example: you need to make sure your vet gave you the proper kind of AB as some are deadly to GP's. Guinea Lynx is the best place on the web Bar None to get it. They have cavy specialists who are vet techs and many others who have plenty of experience and know what questions to ask you. |
Slave, you posted to go to GL which I already had done and came here for a second opinion. The best opinion comes from...the vet.
I called them today and spoke with the one tech that I know and she had a pig with a esophageal tumor and that's why she was kacking. Some pigs for some reason do have this behavior ONCE in a while and it's not life threatening. Some times it is an indicator of other medical problems.
The reason he prescribed such a strong amount is because he wanted to keep her on a longer course to completely rule it out. She has taken her doses through today and I haven't heard her hack at all but I wasn't home much today. Yesterday, I heard nothing from her.
As for GL being the best place, I was a vet tech as well and trust and appreciate everyone's responses. I triple checked everything I was told because some of the AB's I was not familiar with but checked into them when I first adopted
GP's.
Baytril inadvertanly killed my pig Pepper along with Pneumonia and the misdiagnosis from an uninformed vet. I am apprehensive to put a
GP on any AB if there is not sufficient medical evidence to back it up.
As for Elise, she is doing fine, taking her meds well and is active and eating, peeing, and pooping. She is going to stay on them the whole course and if her hacking does not get better, she is going for an X-ray.