[Gpdd] [HEALTH] Help with Guinnea Pig not eating or drinking

rj1571 rj1571 at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Jan 3 16:02:29 EST 2010


My Faith had started getting picky with her food and drinking a lot before Christmas. I took her to the vet who said she appeared to have an inflamed kidney. This could be an infection or the start of kidney failure. As it was tender she thought it more likely an infection and gave me Baytril, to give her 2 x 0.3ml dosage per day for two weeks.
 
During this week I have noticed her leaving some of her fresh vedgies and yesterday she stopped eating and drinking.
 
Neither Faith or I are very good at syringe feeding, but I have been syringing her water every 3 hours and, until I can get her some critical care tomorrow, I have been mixing baby vedgetable food with some of her pellets and have managed to get 2 syringes worth in to her today but under severe protest from her.
 
She is very week, cannot stand. She does not like being handled so every time I pick her up to feed her is stresses her up a lot. She is five and a half years old.
 
She is too weak to go to the vets, she would not take the travel or the prodding about. What I think I will do is first thing tomorrow is go to the vets and ask for critical care (or the UK equivalent) and maybe some metacam to help ease the pain (vet won't give me rymadyl?), hoping that if I can ease any pain she may be more inclined to eat.
 
Does anyone have any advice or recommendations that would help? I have read a lot on the group about giving probiotics when giving antibiotics. How essential is this given that I am already trying to get so much else down her. Is there something simple I can get for this from the supermarket (UK)?
 
Any help or advice you can give would be very much appreciated. Syring feeding is new to me and I want to make sure I am doing the very best for her. Its so stressful for her I want to make sure she is getting everything she needs to help pull her through.
 
Please keep us in your prayers.
 
 
Beki
 


      


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