Xmolxlie
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi everyone!
My guinea pig Kovu has been undergoing treatment for a UTI, she’s been on loxicom and cystophan for a few weeks now, had to cancel my vet follow up visit Saturday as I’d come down with a cold, and with the current pandemic didn’t want to risk making anyone sick, and Kovu has been absolutely fine in herself, and at the last checkup was on the mend, it was rearranged for tomorrow morning at 8:30am. This is just included as background info, I don’t think it has anything to do with the uti but wanted to give some context about her current meds etc!
The last few days her poops have been wetter than usual, she’s always been a wet-ish poop girl naturally, but it’s got worse. Today I’ve just noticed she’s squeaking in pain and lifting her butt up as she goes to the toilet, and squinting her eyes whenever she does, and her bum is wet and covered in poop. I’ve wiped her and got her clean, and given her a fresh pile of hay to sit in, and she’s munching away in her nest of hay. I rang my guinea pig vets to see if they had any emergency appointments today but the guinea pig specialist isn’t in today, and I have an appointment at 8:30 tomorrow morning anyway. Kovu fingers crossed seems relatively fine fingers crossed, she’s obviously in some pain and uncomfortable and squeaks when I pick her up, but she also runs around her cage fine, will take treats out of my hand and is eating and drinking fine. Is there anything I can do between now and tomorrow morning to make her feel any better? I know giving veggies is probably a no go (apart from I need to give her a piece of pepper, as that is how she has her cystophan powder on top of a piece of bell pepper), and keeping her clean and dry and warm, and making sure she’s getting fluids etc. I also read something about using probiotics to help, I do have a tub of pro-c probiotic somewhere, but I’m not sure whether I’m better waiting until she’s seen the vet in the morning and checked out what I should be doing for her with the vets. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated! Thank you![Smiling face :relaxed: ☺️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/263a.png)
My guinea pig Kovu has been undergoing treatment for a UTI, she’s been on loxicom and cystophan for a few weeks now, had to cancel my vet follow up visit Saturday as I’d come down with a cold, and with the current pandemic didn’t want to risk making anyone sick, and Kovu has been absolutely fine in herself, and at the last checkup was on the mend, it was rearranged for tomorrow morning at 8:30am. This is just included as background info, I don’t think it has anything to do with the uti but wanted to give some context about her current meds etc!
The last few days her poops have been wetter than usual, she’s always been a wet-ish poop girl naturally, but it’s got worse. Today I’ve just noticed she’s squeaking in pain and lifting her butt up as she goes to the toilet, and squinting her eyes whenever she does, and her bum is wet and covered in poop. I’ve wiped her and got her clean, and given her a fresh pile of hay to sit in, and she’s munching away in her nest of hay. I rang my guinea pig vets to see if they had any emergency appointments today but the guinea pig specialist isn’t in today, and I have an appointment at 8:30 tomorrow morning anyway. Kovu fingers crossed seems relatively fine fingers crossed, she’s obviously in some pain and uncomfortable and squeaks when I pick her up, but she also runs around her cage fine, will take treats out of my hand and is eating and drinking fine. Is there anything I can do between now and tomorrow morning to make her feel any better? I know giving veggies is probably a no go (apart from I need to give her a piece of pepper, as that is how she has her cystophan powder on top of a piece of bell pepper), and keeping her clean and dry and warm, and making sure she’s getting fluids etc. I also read something about using probiotics to help, I do have a tub of pro-c probiotic somewhere, but I’m not sure whether I’m better waiting until she’s seen the vet in the morning and checked out what I should be doing for her with the vets. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated! Thank you
![Smiling face :relaxed: ☺️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/263a.png)