[Gpdd] FW: [HEALTH] guinea pig (Wallie) not eating--update

Cazza177 cazza177 at ntlworld.com
Sun Aug 6 13:15:19 EDT 2006


Dear Ginger

I found the following on Peter Gurney's website about kidney stones.

http://www.oginet.com/pgurney/kidneys.htm

If you scroll about half way down the page, he begins to talk about the
stones.

Hope it may be helpful to you to read before returning to your vets to
discuss further.

Carole


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From: Ginger Hoffman
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 20:44:20 -0400
To: Gpdd at gpdd.org
Subject: [Gpdd] [HEALTH] guinea pig (Wallie) not eating--update

Dear GPDDers,

I spoke to the vet recently.  She did an x-ray but no blood work (the
blood lab was closed early today--she wants to do it tomorrow).  They
saw one or two stones on the x-ray!!!!  I know that many of you are
"stone experts," so maybe you can help.  Wallie is my very first guinea
pig and, although I read the digest quite frequently, I'm very new at
this.

One stone is clearly a stone and is either in the bladder or in the
ureter.  She wants to do an ultrasound to get the exact location.  The
other opacity may or may not be a stone, and is in the kidney.  She
says the ultrasound will help us tell if that's a stone, too.

She also wants to do the blood work tomorrow, to make sure there isn't
infection, etc.  (I'm still *very* nervous about having him possibly
put under anesthetic for that).

She said that she would probably recommend surgery to remove the
stones.  I'm wondering if there's any way to avoid that.  I'm a little
worried that she's "surgery-happy," but obviously I'm more worried
about the health of Wallie!  The problem is that Wallie still isn't
eating or drinking.  He's still at the hospital getting sub Qs of
liquid and getting critical care.

So any and all advice about stones is very welcome!!  Thank you so much
for thinking about and praying for our little Wallie.

Ginger









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