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  1. Wiebke

    8 year old guinea pig with a URI

    All the best for your vet trip. Any diuretic (fluid draining meds) and other heart meds should not interfere with an antibiotic. It is in your vet's assessment just whether they are necessary at this stage or not - i.e. how advanced the congestive heart failure is. Other members have more...
  2. Storm1974

    Breathing Issue?

    Sorry to hear that. 😞 Yes rats are a nightmare with URIs and it was always so upsetting seeing them climbing the cage, gasping for air! 😢
  3. P

    Breathing Issue?

    She's on a diuretic. I'm also giving antibiotics (vet said I could but she doesn't think it's an infection but I decided it wasn't worth the risk that it was). We have an appointment to go in this week so will see. Looks heart related but she had cancer removed a month ago so I'm suspicious it...
  4. ceciliaxdee

    Recurring pneumonia (formerly heart issues/disease) piggies

    Just a Custard update also (lymphoma piggie) she’s still stable and happy and active. We’re about 4 months after diagnosis going on the 5th month in November. We did have to increase her furosemide to 0.2ml 3x a day recently as she started sounding like she had more fluid build up (noticed the...
  5. Wiebke

    Recurring pneumonia (formerly heart issues/disease) piggies

    Glad that Custard is still going and able to enjoy her life.
  6. ceciliaxdee

    Recurring pneumonia (formerly heart issues/disease) piggies

    Hi all, having the worst luck with my herd and after a fungal infection, two now have respiratory issues. One had pneumonia back in late January, confirmed fluid in lungs with X-rays and then another X-ray when she was better didn’t show an enlarged heart but the vets were suspicious of heart...
  7. Wheekallweek

    Very poorly piggie with URI

    Oh wow how horrible for you. We've had experiences with vets like this before when we were actually there to have a pig Spooky put to sleep. She was awful (and rubbish, it's a long story) and we made a complaint. I understand how hard being a vet can be and what would we do without them but show...
  8. PiggyPack

    Goodnight Bea, Mouse and Meep

    Well here it goes. As most of you will be aware, me and my boyfriend travelled up to Rutland House to see the incredible Dr Varga and Craig to say goodnight to our wonderful girls Bea (5.5), Mouse (5.5) and Meep (2.5) this afternoon. My parents, best friend and brother also came over to say...
  9. Dilly's Piggies

    7 year old sow antibiotics stopped working for URI

    Hey, I'm just in need of a bit of advice/support regarding my 7 year 4 month old sow Delilah. Of course due to her age, she has a few health issues going on but she was doing fantastic on her medication and has recently started going downhill again, I'm not entirely sure what to do. This is a...
  10. Tigermoth

    Sick guinea pig

    So there’s no antibiotic? Lasix is frusemide isn’t it? He is symptomatic of a URI based on his noisy breathing. What are they waiting for to diagnose? Definitely weigh daily as that will give you more evidence of an unwell pig but the diuretics will mask some of what is happening there...
  11. Wiebke

    Mia (6 months old piggy) - URI + Enlarged Heart?

    Metacam is the absolute minimum level, whether that is cat (0.5 mg/ml) or the three times stronger dog (1.5 mg/ml) solution. It is pretty much cosmetic. Karidox is doxycycline but I am not sure in which concentration as it is marketed for poultry and pigs. That may explain the low dosage...
  12. Free Ranger

    Recurring pneumonia (formerly heart issues/disease) piggies

    Hi, my 4 year old girl Flora has just gone through this very thing although of course it may have a different cause. The important bit is that Flora is just finishing her course of Septrin for the URI and she is also on Frusol, twice a day, 0.3ml of 40mg/5 ml each time. This is about 2.4mg each...
  13. flintstones

    Uri - retching and sneezing fluid.

    I went to the emergency vet tonight, as Brambles is retching and sneezing fluid. She was fine at veggies this morning, no weight loss however this evening she didn't come out for veggies. The vet has advised it is a Uri, I am currently trying to syringe feed however it's almost impossible due...
  14. Wizzy

    Where to find a diuretic

    Both my guineas have been on antibiotics for quite a while due to a very nasty uri. Peppers been on antibiotics for 4 weeks now, and Rexy 3 weeks. The vet didn’t prescribe a diuretic but since rexy has some noise in her chest and peppers is mostly in her throat/ nose, i think they would help...
  15. ceciliaxdee

    Recurring pneumonia (formerly heart issues/disease) piggies

    Thank you for sharing your experience! Custard is similar to your Flora. She’s just under 4, and last time she had the fluid in lungs, once that cleared, they redid the X-ray and there was no enlarged heart. However the on and off clicky upper respiratory breathing had come and go over the last...
  16. C

    Sick guinea pig

    No they did not prescribe anything else. And yes lasix is frusemide. I do not know what they are waiting for but the noisy breathing is mainly noticiable when she is resting and relaxed (I am aware of the normal sound they make when they are relax it is not that). I didn’t record a video of it...
  17. L

    URI

    Hi, me again, so unfortunately our little guinea pig took a turn for the worse yesterday, she went back to the vets and they admitted her. She had oxygen support initially, iv fluids, antibiotics and diuretics. She was coping without oxygen last night but still hadn’t eaten and they felt it was...
  18. Danielle Smith

    Flub's laboured breathing

    Well, that vet appointment could not have gone better. I was very brave (!) and managed to tell my vet in no uncertain terms that I wanted a trial of heart meds, preferably both diuretic and ACE-ihibitor. While I've nudged her towards certain medication choices before, I've never been quite so...
  19. Dilly's Piggies

    Symptoms return after stopping antibiotics - complicated 7 year old sow issues

    This is probably going to be a long one but I could really use some advice and support regarding my 7 year old sow Delilah. Delilah has quite a few problems going on, she's a complicated case at the moment. She has been very healthy all her life, never needed a vet until after turning 7, she's...
  20. furryfriends (TEAS)

    Please someone help us

    Ask if you could trial a few weeks on a diuretic, to see if it makes a difference. You could try and book him in with Simon too, for when you are here next week.
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