Guinea Pig Papa
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As many of you know, Punkin has an incisor infection.
Scooter was now diagnosed with an URI on Friday of last week, as over a few days he gradually went off his food. He was wheezing at the vets, and he was given a needle of Baytril then and by Friday evening seemed to be improving. He was prescribed .2 ml of Baytril every 12 hours, which began Saturday morning.
His weight continued to drop, and round the clock force feedings were begun Sunday. With each feeding, the difficulty level has increased dramatically. He is taking in little food at all. Rest assured, trying is not the case. He is syringed the food to the back of his mouth, and he simply chews very slowly until the vast majority of it comes out of his mouth.
He must have gotten some in yesterday because his weight went up slightly, from 1338 to 1352 this morning. But I couldn't even get half a 12CC syringe into him this morning. Mixing the CC thin or thick doesn't matter. I syringe him water and he lets half of that run out of his mouth.
I'm thinking that this is likely intolerance to Baytril but I've not run across it at this level before. Can anyone offer me any advice on what to do? I have Sulfatrim on hand but don't know what dose to adminster it. I'm going to call the vet this morning and see what I can do, but he leaves for vacation for 10 days after tomorrow afternoon.
Badly scared for Scooter at this point.
Scooter was now diagnosed with an URI on Friday of last week, as over a few days he gradually went off his food. He was wheezing at the vets, and he was given a needle of Baytril then and by Friday evening seemed to be improving. He was prescribed .2 ml of Baytril every 12 hours, which began Saturday morning.
His weight continued to drop, and round the clock force feedings were begun Sunday. With each feeding, the difficulty level has increased dramatically. He is taking in little food at all. Rest assured, trying is not the case. He is syringed the food to the back of his mouth, and he simply chews very slowly until the vast majority of it comes out of his mouth.
He must have gotten some in yesterday because his weight went up slightly, from 1338 to 1352 this morning. But I couldn't even get half a 12CC syringe into him this morning. Mixing the CC thin or thick doesn't matter. I syringe him water and he lets half of that run out of his mouth.
I'm thinking that this is likely intolerance to Baytril but I've not run across it at this level before. Can anyone offer me any advice on what to do? I have Sulfatrim on hand but don't know what dose to adminster it. I'm going to call the vet this morning and see what I can do, but he leaves for vacation for 10 days after tomorrow afternoon.
Badly scared for Scooter at this point.