Liane
Teenage Guinea Pig
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I apologise in advance, diarrhoea isn't a pleasant subject.
Elphie, who is just over 4 years old, is rapidly losing weight and has diarrhoea. I took her to our local vet two weeks ago for treatment for the diarrhoea and conjunctivitis. She was given baytril and eye drops, the conjuctivits has cleared up nicely, but the diarrhoea and weight loss remains. She went to our usual vet last week for a check up, and we have another appointment booked. The vet said she has quite a full tummy, a little bloated, but she is concerned as she doesn't seem to have any fat or muscle on top. She's down to 686g which is worryingly low, as she is between 900-1000g at healthy weight. She is still very active and looks otherwise healthy.
The diarrhoea isn't severe - the worst she had it was Wednesday; it wasn't massively watery but it was dripping from her bottom. What is baffling is that it isn't constant - it clears up and her poops are well formed, a little on the small side, but otherwise good. And then suddenly they'll turn soft, sometimes they recover, other times it progresses onto runnier poops. Yesterday was a good day and she did good, solid poops. Today she started off with soft poops and now she has gloopy mess oozing out of her bottom. I've noticed that she seems to be trying to eat poops from Glinda's bottom.
I've stopped all veggies, although last week I tried to ease them back in but her poops worsened so I stopped again. She's still on baytril, almost finished the dose, and this doesn't seem to have any particular effect on poop quality (it's not making it worse). I've also been giving her fibreplex and critical care feeds. She has plenty of hay, which she eats, and I've reduced nuggets.
I don't have a clue what is causing this, or how to help her. I'm at my wits end.
Elphie, who is just over 4 years old, is rapidly losing weight and has diarrhoea. I took her to our local vet two weeks ago for treatment for the diarrhoea and conjunctivitis. She was given baytril and eye drops, the conjuctivits has cleared up nicely, but the diarrhoea and weight loss remains. She went to our usual vet last week for a check up, and we have another appointment booked. The vet said she has quite a full tummy, a little bloated, but she is concerned as she doesn't seem to have any fat or muscle on top. She's down to 686g which is worryingly low, as she is between 900-1000g at healthy weight. She is still very active and looks otherwise healthy.
The diarrhoea isn't severe - the worst she had it was Wednesday; it wasn't massively watery but it was dripping from her bottom. What is baffling is that it isn't constant - it clears up and her poops are well formed, a little on the small side, but otherwise good. And then suddenly they'll turn soft, sometimes they recover, other times it progresses onto runnier poops. Yesterday was a good day and she did good, solid poops. Today she started off with soft poops and now she has gloopy mess oozing out of her bottom. I've noticed that she seems to be trying to eat poops from Glinda's bottom.
I've stopped all veggies, although last week I tried to ease them back in but her poops worsened so I stopped again. She's still on baytril, almost finished the dose, and this doesn't seem to have any particular effect on poop quality (it's not making it worse). I've also been giving her fibreplex and critical care feeds. She has plenty of hay, which she eats, and I've reduced nuggets.
I don't have a clue what is causing this, or how to help her. I'm at my wits end.