Help Please With Impaction

[Stewybus]

5-year-old Ginger who is being looked after by one of our fostermum's has a bad case of impaction which needs to be cleaned several times a day. It's a mass of poo rather that a few solid ones. When it was first discovered when I first met him on trip to the vets the day after he had been surrendered to his fostermum it was Dominika our vet who discovered the impaction. It was very smelly, like a cow shed & obviously hadn't been attended to at his previous home. After it was cleaned out he actually did a couple of proper poos.

Since his vet's visit he has been on fibreplex but the impaction has got worse & there's a bit of blood but this is from soreness rather than coming from inside, I suppose a bit like haemorrhoids. I've told his fostermum to take all brassica veggies from his diet ie brocolli, kale, spring greens etc & to use some vaseline. Is there anything else we can do to help him get through this.

Thanks for ready xx

 

[Wiebke]

Some members have found that a strict diet of the same foods always served at the same time has helped to ease the impaction somewhat.

@Abi_nurse

 

[BonBon2010]

I gave my boar Biscuit to a rescue when he started having toilet problems, due to work commitments, I didn't think I could give him the care he needed. He just started having issues overnight, it wasn't a gradual thing. Over the course of a week, he got really bad, and when I took him to the vets, they just said it's normal for a Boar to have this problem, but his wasn't normal as I was cleaning him about half a dozen times a day.
The day after he went to the rescue, he was pts due to a break down in his central nervous system, it wasn't like I already felt, a normal age related problem he had after all. He would have gone down hill very quickly, although at the time of passing his quality of life was not compromised, and he was still happy. If I'd had known what was wrong, he could have passed away at home, but hindsight is a wonderful thing if it existed.
It's not a common knowledge, not in the books either so how was I to know it would happen to Biscuit? He required care I could not give him, i'm working 12 hour days/nights, he needed far more.
Please ask your vet about this condition, I don't know what name it's classed under, but i got the impression it's not that rare?

 

[Stewybus]

He was at the vets on Monday. We are going to try him with less veggies over the weekend & then back to the vets if not any getting better by Tuesday x

 

[gizzy]

with a dificult impaction l use vet grade lubricant, with a swob, and "once the impaction out,"

l fill a 1ml syrine with lub and gentaly put the sringe a copple of mm inside the sack and gently squese in the lub
this makes it far easea to get the next lot of poo out

 

[VickyMidlands]

My Guinea suffers but he's nearly 7. I clear every day/every other day. I've stuck to the same foods and given him more hay than normal.
Hope things get better.