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Graham exploded

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Emma85

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Graham seemed much happier yesterday, squeaking for food, ate more than he has in a while, but not everything offered, which shows that he is still not right.

This morning getting up, the rancid smell hit me. Grahams face, belly and bottom was completely covered in a brown, pooey mess and smelt horrendous. I'm still not sure if he has exploded from his bottom or his mouth.

Hubby cleaned cage while I bathed him. I gave him medicine (metacam and ranitidine) as has been advised. When bringing the syringe put, the brown gunk was on the syringe and smelt terrible, the same smell as we discovered when getting up this morning.

He is being quite sociable and squeaking for food. I've fed him leafy vegetables, which he is working his way through.

Highcroft tomorrow, thank goodness.

Anyone had this before or any advise between now and then? Do I feed him critical care, allow him to eat veggies, deprive him a bit by offering minimal amounts?
 
Emma85 said:
Graham seemed much happier yesterday, squeaking for food, ate more than he has in a while, but not everything offered, which shows that he is still not right.

This morning getting up, the rancid smell hit me. Grahams face, belly and bottom was completely covered in a brown, pooey mess and smelt horrendous. I'm still not sure if he has exploded from his bottom or his mouth.

Hubby cleaned cage while I bathed him. I gave him medicine (metacam and ranitidine) as has been advised. When bringing the syringe put, the brown gunk was on the syringe and smelt terrible, the same smell as we discovered when getting up this morning.

He is being quite sociable and squeaking for food. I've fed him leafy vegetables, which he is working his way through.

Highcroft tomorrow, thank goodness.

Anyone had this before or any advise between now and then? Do I feed him critical care, allow him to eat veggies, deprive him a bit by offering minimal amounts?
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Please take him off any fresh food and continue to syringe feed ideally 60-90 ml in 24 hours and offer plenty of water. You cannot starve a piggy without risking the gut going into stasis. Your aim has to be to keep it going and to stabilise it again as soon as possible with just fibre.
Plenty of probiotic and/or fresh poo soup from a healthy piggy if possible (with really fresh poos) and always freshly made for it to be effective.
Get dioralyte from the pharmacy to prevent dehydration and follow the instructions on the label.

See a vet asap if there is any sign of apathy, bloat or dehydration (you will notice from the quality of the fur).
If you have to see an out-of-hours vet, please refuse any steroid infections.
 
I have been unable to get any critical care into Graham. He has been very uncharacter like, biting and burying his face into me to avoid being syringe fed. My husband attempted to hold him while I fed but anything I got in came out again - I think that he is full of food again. His breath smells horrendous. I rang the vet hospital and the vet has advised me to attempt to feed him any food in small amounts that he will eat in an attempt to get some food inside him.

He has eaten some red pepper and 3 spinach leaves. Worryingly, I have not seen him eat any nuggets or hay. However, he has lots of extra hay under his shelter to keep him warm, whether he is eating this and I can't see, is a possibility.

One thought I has was that when he went to the vets on Friday, she gave me a second type of pro-biotic to go into his waterbottle - vetark pro C professional probiotic. Hubby and I are wondering whether this is giving him bad breath and explosive poos possibly?

Since this morning, he hasn't had any more explosions. He seems a little more active and is eating the small bits I put down. Some progress at least.
 
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