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Gp Not Eating After Surgery

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hey can someone help please.

One of our 3 girls has been spayed this week. We picked her up on Monday evening and started post op care.

We'd been giving her the Antibiotics, Pain Killers and what food we could for the next couple of days. Looking on the net it says most pigs improve after 24hours + but at the moment she is jet not interested in food. We took her back to the vets who gave us some of the mix to help and said to stop the anti-biopics which we've done and continued to give her the mix but she still seems out of sorts and not eating normally.

Can anyone help at all as she's normally a really lovely character and very talkative but not at the moment.

Thanks
 
At the moment yes. Vet has said for us to try and get 5ml every 4 hours into her
 
They say 120ml's in a day. I however have never got near that. During the initial recovery I have done 5ml's every hour, slow and steady.

She definitely needs more than 5ml's every 4 hours.
 
what dosage of painkiller is she on? Is it cat or dog metacam or something else?
She may need her painkillers increased for a bit just to get her over the painful stage post op.
Pain is often a factor in not eating.
Ask the vet if u can give the doses split up through the day, their fast metabolism means it wears off quickly so a few lower doses a day. Is better than one higher dose.

Can u tempt her to eat some freshly picked grass or dandelions etc? Try her with different types of hay? Cut up strips of carrot &handfeed one by one. If u wash everything &leave it wet for her to eat or cucumber cut up- she'll stay better hydrated.

Antibiotics do dampen the appetite sometimes, but if u wanted to carry on using them to reduce the chances of infection ask your vet to resume them again &have a probiotic avipro or fibreplex or even the pets at home one can be used to help the digestive system recover. Give about 2-3hrs after antibiotics. Or u can just give the probiotics anyway
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Good luck with the syringe feeding & loads of healing vibes for a speedy recovery being sent your way. Xx
 
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