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A while ago, i posted about Rosemary's abcess coming back and after a couple of rounds of baytrill it was fine. However, the vets said that she would have to go back every couple of months or so to have it flushed out. She went again today and she had more baytrill for a couple of weeks.
However, since she is under weight, the vet said it would be good to put medicine of pepper. Has anyone else done this before? She ate her fist dose fine but I was wondering if there was any advice on doing this.

Thank you. :)
 
I would certainly give probiotics sprinkled on the veg to counter the effects of the baytril. If Rosemary's eating baytril on veg, hat off - mine would never come near it; it's so foul tasting!

Have you considered topping her up with Critical Care?

PS: Would your vet consider using zithromax, which is a very strong not licensed antibiotic but especially good with nasty abscesses. Simon Maddock, one of the best guinea pig vets in the country, is using it with good results and it certainly has saved my Hywel's life when he devloped post neutering complications!
Here is his contact if your vet would like to speak to him (that's what my vet did):
http://www.catandrabbit.co.uk/contact_us.htm
 
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Rosemary is a big brave girl. She's been through a lot over the past couple of years but is the most happy guinea pig I've ever seen! Thank you for the link. But please could you tell me what the difference between a licensed and non licensed antibiotic? :o
 
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But please could you tell me what the difference between a licensed and non licensed antibiotic? :o
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Licensed means approved to treat whatever species, Un-licensed means it's hasn't been approved.

There are so few medicines that are licensed for guinea pigs (am thinking Baytril) but there are other medicines that, whilst un-licensed, have had fantastic results.
I'm sure Septrin isn't a licensed medicine for guinea pigs but it does work better for UTI's than Baytril does.

Un-licensed doesn't necessarily mean dangerous & Zithromax/Azithromycin has saved many a guinea pig & it isn't harsh on the gut like Baytril is.
 
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Lots of vets use medicines that aren't licensed for the species (like Ivermectin in dogs and other small animals), it sounds kinda scary that it's unlicensed but it's usually fine :)
 
Our vet uses a lot of unliscened medicines. As she says unfortunatly all these medicences are originally tested on GPs theres just no money in liscencing them for small animals. sorry about the spelling
 
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