MrWhistles
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I forgot to post this a while back. But I had the vets run some tests on Sweetie shortly after she passed because we couldn't pin point her condition.
For those who don't know. Sweetie started having sezuires 1 day. For a week or so it was just about 1 sezuire a day. Then it progressed to atleast 2-3 times a day and eventually got to be 4+ a day.
Sweetie and everyone was treated for skin mites. Sweetie was treated for an inner ear infection as her ear looked pretty bad. She was given Baytril.
Shortly after starting Baytril her sezuires increased to 6+ a day. Since it seemed like stress encouraged an episode the vet pushed to continue Baytril for a few more days and if no improvement we'd switch to another antibiotic. Well, she never made it past a couple days.
I had been force feeding her very often and she got to the point where she just wasn't taking any food. You just launched it into the back of her mouth and she never took it. And the sezuires became non stop the day we put her down.
So the vets pulled blood, skin scrappings and opened her up. All was fine but her vitamin C levels. They were very low. What was confusing is everyone is hand fed fresh food and each pig gets HALF of a bell pepper daily. That's more than enough vitamin C daily.
So the vet concluded that she had the 1st case(that they've seen 1st hand) of some sort of vitamin C absorption disorder. Meaning she had some sort of issue absorbing vitamin C.
Has anyone heard of this? What are your thoughts on this?
For those who don't know. Sweetie started having sezuires 1 day. For a week or so it was just about 1 sezuire a day. Then it progressed to atleast 2-3 times a day and eventually got to be 4+ a day.
Sweetie and everyone was treated for skin mites. Sweetie was treated for an inner ear infection as her ear looked pretty bad. She was given Baytril.
Shortly after starting Baytril her sezuires increased to 6+ a day. Since it seemed like stress encouraged an episode the vet pushed to continue Baytril for a few more days and if no improvement we'd switch to another antibiotic. Well, she never made it past a couple days.
I had been force feeding her very often and she got to the point where she just wasn't taking any food. You just launched it into the back of her mouth and she never took it. And the sezuires became non stop the day we put her down.
So the vets pulled blood, skin scrappings and opened her up. All was fine but her vitamin C levels. They were very low. What was confusing is everyone is hand fed fresh food and each pig gets HALF of a bell pepper daily. That's more than enough vitamin C daily.
So the vet concluded that she had the 1st case(that they've seen 1st hand) of some sort of vitamin C absorption disorder. Meaning she had some sort of issue absorbing vitamin C.
Has anyone heard of this? What are your thoughts on this?