It can take several weeks of antibiotics to clear respiratory infections. However if you have seen no improvements at all The sounds like the infection may be resistant to the baytril. Though if your seeing some you may need to persist. Sadly baytril (although right to use in this case) is overused and we are seeing some resistance to it now because of inappropriate antibiotic use from owners and vets. I’m sorry you are having a tough time. Respiratory infections are currently quite rife in some groups of piggies these days. Please call your vet for more advice and ask about potentially changing the drugs over. What are their weights doing? Have they lost any?. Something like doxycycline may be of more use for the URI and septrin for the UTI. Hope you get them sorted.
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Although I've not got a thing to weigh them (I'm investing but we are quite short on cash from the last vet visit (300 US dollars because of an x-ray), they have a big appetite and are eating like usual, so I doubt there would be weight loss. We've tried doxycline before, but my gas-prone Piggie had to stop because she got quite a bad gas-almost bloat-episode. We are picking up bactrim for the UTI tomorrow, but I've got a few main questions that I would like to ask here first (ill also try to ask the vet again over the phone tomorrow), mainly concerning the URI and the gases. The vet did say to give lots of probiotic to avoid bad side effects, does this mean that bactrim is known for causing bloat/GI tract issues? My Piggie is a bit sensitive to both.
I don't want any bacteria of the uri to be left in her body, so if we were to stop the Baytril for the bactrim six days in, there might still be some bacteria that could become a URI. Should we finish the Baytril first and then start the bactrim, or must this UTI be treated promptly (because bactrim is not really effective in removing URIs, I would like to complete the Baytril course)?
Is it too harsh to give both at the same time?
Can you give simethicone (we don't use it much to treat gas because of what it does, but it's really effective at preventing gas before it starts) and cisapride while on bactrim and/or Baytril?
I know you're not a vet and I might be asking too much in these questions for you to answer, but if there are any you could answer I would greatly appreciate it, although I do understand if I should just leave these questions to the vet.