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Emeprid For Bloat?

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Ah Billy you're a star! :D I was panicking he was finally getting better and I'd gone and stumped his progress, glad to know he's safe and sound. I'll give the vet a call in the morning, they said they were going to reduce the dose not increase it! Easy mistake I suppose given it wasn't the same person and each will have their own prefference to perscribing as you said for ease vs dose!
 
it sounds like the vet wanted to up the pain relief perhaps - 0.3ml dog metacam would be equal to 0.9ml cat metacam. It is a higher dose than what vets would normally give but generally fine for short term use. He is a big pig also :)
Cookie was 1kg and used to be on 0.1ml dog metacam twice daily for jaw arthritis. So 0.2ml daily.

Just give them a ring when open again to make sure they made the switch deliberately and not a dispensing error.
 
VickiA said:
I'll tag @Wiebke and @Adelle who may know more about that than I do. I'm not sure about cat vs dog doses. But exotics vets do give bigger doses anyway.
All sounds like things are going in right direction. You can hopefully start to relax and catch up on some sleep again :nod:
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Most vets prescribe dog metacam because you only have to give a little instead of syringe fulls with three times weaker cat metacam. Much easier, especially with a struggling piggy! ;)

All the best! Please be aware that bloat comes in waves and that the intestines take several weeks to settle down, so you have to very carefully and slowly shift over to a normal diet again.
 
Btw @CraigGlasgow if you ever want to get one of our attention you can tag any member by typing @ immediately followed by their forum name. It will anticipate members with those letters in their name and you click in the one you want. It then notifies the person you've tagged and makes it easier sometimes amidst all the threads to see the post/thread.
 
CraigGlasgow said:
Ah Billy you're a star! :D I was panicking he was finally getting better and I'd gone and stumped his progress, glad to know he's safe and sound. I'll give the vet a call in the morning, they said they were going to reduce the dose not increase it! Easy mistake I suppose given it wasn't the same person and each will have their own prefference to perscribing as you said for ease vs dose!
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Ah... they said they were going to decrease it? Definitely sounds like a dispensing error. If you have already dosed don't panic like I said piggies have had larger doses and tolerate it well.
Perhaps they wanted him on 0.3ml of cat meloxaid (metacam) which would be the equivalent of 0.1ml dog meloxaid if they wanted the dose lowered.

ring them tomorrow and explain what they said and what you have been given see what dose pain relief they want him on with the dog metacam you have been given
 
He definitely said decrease because Weasley was coming off the emeprid and he wanted to make sure there wasn't more gut disruption, I'll give them a call tomorrow and get them changed/get the correct dose. Thanks again Billy :)

Thanks Wiebke. This was his second wave so I'll be taking things VERY slow until I know he's balancing properly. He's got a follow up appointment on Friday evening so I might hold off on veg until then just to get a final okay, I'll see how he goes :)
 
CraigGlasgow said:
He definitely said decrease because Weasley was coming off the emeprid and he wanted to make sure there wasn't more gut disruption, I'll give them a call tomorrow and get them changed/get the correct dose. Thanks again Billy :)

Thanks Wiebke. This was his second wave so I'll be taking things VERY slow until I know he's balancing properly. He's got a follow up appointment on Friday evening so I might hold off on veg until then just to get a final okay, I'll see how he goes :)
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Pleasure, you are doing a fab job for your little lad.

My names Lee, sorry for the confusion with my username :)) sport_billy was my favourite cartoon character from the 80's :)
 
They've been with me through some very tough times so I'm probably a bit overprotective of him after losing Potter, I'm sure you'll all be getting bored of all the paranoid questions soon enough :P

Ah I see, sorry! Well thank you very much for all your help Lee and apologies for repeatedly calling you Billy :p
 
CraigGlasgow said:
They've been with me through some very tough times so I'm probably a bit overprotective of him after losing Potter, I'm sure you'll all be getting bored of all the paranoid questions soon enough :P

Ah I see, sorry! Well thank you very much for all your help Lee and apologies for repeatedly calling you Billy :p
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You can call me anything :))

I understand, we all do. Our pets are our family and it hurts to see them poorly. You really are doing all you can. The forum is a place where you can ask questions but also get support. The people here are truly kind hearted everyone always tries to help so never be afraid of starting threads asking things.
 
You definitely are some lovely and caring folk, it' s been great to have such solid support and a wealth of knowledge to draw from :)
 
Update: Spoke to the vet, he apologised for the mixup and said he had misread the last vet's notes and though Weasley was already on Dog Meloxaid not Cat Meloxaid which is why he was, quite rightly, trying to reduce the dose because it was extremely high for the Dog kind. He said to go for a happy medium and give him somewhere between 0.15-0.2mls rather than the full 0.3 depending on how he seems to be doing.

He certainly seems on the mend, he's been pooing a decent amount on and off over the last day and most are a good shape and size, and his urine has now started to return to almost clear with a slight whiteish tinge, still not as often or as much as usual but what he is passing now looks pretty close to normal and I'm assuming once he's back on the veg and taking in more water it will start to increase again :)

He was very hyperactive yesterday late evening and had a good amount of floor time and running around the cage. Overnight he almost emptied the rest of his nugget bowl, ate the majority of his hay and had a quarter of the probiotic water bottle and a quarter of the plain water bottle :) even woke me up a few times running around and knocking the tunnels against the bars :P He still seems to be adjusting to the reduced space, I might need to keep a few toys just for floor time to give him space but the change in him even overnight has been amazing :D stopping the Baytril and Emeprid seem to have done wonders :)

He still seems quite bright and is eating and drinking plenty so hopefully that's the worst over for now :D
 
@VickiA @Wiebke @sport_billy just when I thought things were going well :( I've just gone to give his septrin and notice he was really scratching his chin. I tried to photograph it but it's not very clear, he's torn a patch of skin off just under his chin about the size of a 5p piece! :( it looks very red and raw. Does this need a trip to the emergency vet?tmp_19285-20170112_194907-1487422177.webp tmp_19285-20170112_194907-1487422177.webp tmp_19285-20170112_194907-1487422177.webp tmp_19285-20170112_1946212075745763.webp tmp_19285-20170112_194907-1487422177.webp tmp_19285-20170112_1946212075745763.webp
 
Don't panic. I can't see clearly in the photos. But I don't think it needs emergency vet treatment.
Any idea how he's done it? Could it be a burst abscess? Is it a deep hole or just a superficial wound?
Personally I would keep it clean with some cooled boiled water with a bit of salt in it (homemade saline) and see how it looks tomorrow.
@Wiebke will know - she's our guru
 
I gave it a clean with a damp kitchen towel and warm water and it hopefully looked worse than it seems. It's actually only a very small patch of skin that's come off, I think his fur was just damp from spilled meds/the water he had drunk as when i wiped it clean it was clear and no bloody residue on the actual fur. If he hadn't been itching I wouldn't have even seen it. It looks like he's been scratching a scab which I found hanging to bit of fur further down and pulled it off. It looks like a surface irritation, very shallow, maybe he's just been itching it a bit too much. His hair keeps getting in the way, of taking any kind of good picture but I'll try and get a close up. Looks a bit like a superficial wound they get from scratching to hard from mites far as I can tell but it's right under his mouth. Hes been getting a lot of oral meds so could it be fungal from having too much moisture on the skin? Or maybe chellitis if he's been off his veg?
 
CraigGlasgow said:
I gave it a clean with a damp kitchen towel and warm water and it hopefully looked worse than it seems. It's actually only a very small patch of skin that's come off, I think his fur was just damp from spilled meds/the water he had drunk as when i wiped it clean it was clear and no bloody residue on the actual fur. If he hadn't been itching I wouldn't have even seen it. It looks like he's been scratching a scab which I found hanging to bit of fur further down and pulled it off. It looks like a surface irritation, very shallow, maybe he's just been itching it a bit too much. His hair keeps getting in the way, of taking any kind of good picture but I'll try and get a close up. Looks a bit like a superficial wound they get from scratching to hard from mites far as I can tell but it's right under his mouth. Hes been getting a lot of oral meds so could it be fungal from having too much moisture on the skin? Or maybe chellitis if he's been off his veg?
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Please gently disinfect it with some saline solution, which you can make at home by stirring 1-2 teaspoona of salt into 1 pint of boiled cooled water.
Have him checked tomorrow.
 
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