Leila
Junior Guinea Pig
Hello, guys.
So, since last Wednesday, my two year-old boar Jaime, has lost it's apetite. He was still eating by himself, but he was eating a tad less. I thought it could be stress because I had showered him that same day, so I decideto wait it out, since he was still eating. However he ate even less on Thursday, and seemed to be drooling and not being able to close his mouth, so I knew it was a dental issue. I took him to the Vet on Friday, and the Vet took an X-Ray and decided that both his molars and incisors were too long. So, with Jaime asleep, he clipped both of them. At the time I had no idea incisors shouldn't be clipped, since both of the Vets that took care of him in the past have clipped them, because his jaw is crooked and his incisors tend to wear on only one side of the incisors. So I thought that could be the issue too. Jaime went home with me and he was on dypyrone for 2 days and some vitamins. Jaime was very interested in eating, and he was eating in large quantities, but only soft foods and on my hand. He didn't seem able to cut down foods on his own, which led me to believe his incisors were too short. I awaited a while, but slowly he was losing his apetite again and I also noticed him gag whenever he ate something slightly larger, so yesterday (wednesday), I took him to the same vet. As I awaited with Jaime on a little carrier, I noticed something hamgimg from his chin. When I pulled it, it seemed silicone or plastic. When I entered the vet's room I showed him what was on his mouth, and he said it was some plastic he must have chewed. However when he took s little camera device and incerted it on Jaime's mouth to take a look at his molars again, there were pieces of this EVERYWHERE on his mouth. Everywhere the camera went, there was this odd substance which no vet could determine what it was. The vet said it wasn't a discharge and he must have chewed on something at home or on the way home. Anyway, he decided to give anaesthesia to Jaime again and take a look at his molars again to see if even more needed to be trimmed, because aparently Jaime still couIdn't close his mouth. I asked him to leave his incisors the size they were and he agreed he could've cut them too short. The procedure took two hours. I was so stressed out. When I finally was called back, they said they found a huge abscess behind his molars which they drained. They sent me home this time with tramadol for 3 days, baytril for 8 and Predsim.
Now, he as been at home for 12 hours and Jaime simply doesn't eat. He ate a little bit of a mush I made with his pallets, banana and tomatoes, but very little. That was all he ate in 24 hours. I asked the vet what to do and he said I should wait it out because he was still in so much pain but I know that he can't stay this long without eating. I tried making escarole "cigarettes" and shoving into his moith, tried the mushy pellets, I boiled carrots and chayote and make a mushy out of it too and he seems really interested, but he can barely open his mouth to eat it. I tried putting all of these substances separatedly in 1ml syringes to force feed, but everything seems to be clogging it, even after I cut the tip, not mattering how watery the mixtures are. I even tried larger syringes out of desparation, and they ended up clogged too. live in Brazil, we don't have any sort of CriticalCare, nor anything similar, only to cats and dogs. He seems weak, very miserable and I don't have any ideas what else to do.
So, since last Wednesday, my two year-old boar Jaime, has lost it's apetite. He was still eating by himself, but he was eating a tad less. I thought it could be stress because I had showered him that same day, so I decideto wait it out, since he was still eating. However he ate even less on Thursday, and seemed to be drooling and not being able to close his mouth, so I knew it was a dental issue. I took him to the Vet on Friday, and the Vet took an X-Ray and decided that both his molars and incisors were too long. So, with Jaime asleep, he clipped both of them. At the time I had no idea incisors shouldn't be clipped, since both of the Vets that took care of him in the past have clipped them, because his jaw is crooked and his incisors tend to wear on only one side of the incisors. So I thought that could be the issue too. Jaime went home with me and he was on dypyrone for 2 days and some vitamins. Jaime was very interested in eating, and he was eating in large quantities, but only soft foods and on my hand. He didn't seem able to cut down foods on his own, which led me to believe his incisors were too short. I awaited a while, but slowly he was losing his apetite again and I also noticed him gag whenever he ate something slightly larger, so yesterday (wednesday), I took him to the same vet. As I awaited with Jaime on a little carrier, I noticed something hamgimg from his chin. When I pulled it, it seemed silicone or plastic. When I entered the vet's room I showed him what was on his mouth, and he said it was some plastic he must have chewed. However when he took s little camera device and incerted it on Jaime's mouth to take a look at his molars again, there were pieces of this EVERYWHERE on his mouth. Everywhere the camera went, there was this odd substance which no vet could determine what it was. The vet said it wasn't a discharge and he must have chewed on something at home or on the way home. Anyway, he decided to give anaesthesia to Jaime again and take a look at his molars again to see if even more needed to be trimmed, because aparently Jaime still couIdn't close his mouth. I asked him to leave his incisors the size they were and he agreed he could've cut them too short. The procedure took two hours. I was so stressed out. When I finally was called back, they said they found a huge abscess behind his molars which they drained. They sent me home this time with tramadol for 3 days, baytril for 8 and Predsim.
Now, he as been at home for 12 hours and Jaime simply doesn't eat. He ate a little bit of a mush I made with his pallets, banana and tomatoes, but very little. That was all he ate in 24 hours. I asked the vet what to do and he said I should wait it out because he was still in so much pain but I know that he can't stay this long without eating. I tried making escarole "cigarettes" and shoving into his moith, tried the mushy pellets, I boiled carrots and chayote and make a mushy out of it too and he seems really interested, but he can barely open his mouth to eat it. I tried putting all of these substances separatedly in 1ml syringes to force feed, but everything seems to be clogging it, even after I cut the tip, not mattering how watery the mixtures are. I even tried larger syringes out of desparation, and they ended up clogged too. live in Brazil, we don't have any sort of CriticalCare, nor anything similar, only to cats and dogs. He seems weak, very miserable and I don't have any ideas what else to do.
