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Poorly Baby Pig

My OH's is April too I think plus he gets toil days for working on a Saturday. You have had such an awful year, we have lost 5 (3 in a one week including Maud) and that was bad enough. I think little Ceri sounds a real fighter though. She has done well so far fighting off the URI. She sounds like she landed on her little paws the day you brought her home.
 
helen105281 said:
My OH's is April too I think plus he gets toil days for working on a Saturday. You have had such an awful year, we have lost 5 (3 in a one week including Maud) and that was bad enough. I think little Ceri sounds a real fighter though. She has done well so far fighting off the URI. She sounds like she landed on her little paws the day you brought her home.
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Oh God poor you.... Sending so many hugs to you.

I hope you are right. She certainly is a fighter, it is quite hard to realise how poorly she is. I hope and pray we are able to get her well....
 
Thank you. I hope all goes ok later and the vet agrees to the Itrafungol and mite treatment. I will come on tonight to see how she is.
 
Mishka said:
I'm now wondering if we should treat for mites as well, but I am concerned about Ivermectin. Her weight is 358g, she's so small and so young I am seriously worried about adverse reactions to the drug... Any advice please?
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Your girl is old enough to be safely treated for ivermectin; lots of rescue babies are when at this stage when badly neglected pregnant and nursing mums with young babies come into rescue with all sorts of nasties and often advances cases.

The ivermectin dose and strength is tailored to the body weight. Your vet will treat with xeno 50 instead of xeno 450.
Please leave the judgment to your vet as to wether this is necessary or not. An advanced case of mange mites can do more damage (including a very slow and agonising death) than any xeno ever will, not to mention the pain and misery of an advanced untreated case. ;)
Sometimes you can box yourself into a very small corner when you hover obsessively over your piggy and over-research because you can easily lose any sense of perspective and proportion.
 
Wiebke said:
Your girl is old enough to be safely treated for ivermectin; lots of rescue babies are when at this stage when badly neglected pregnant and nursing mums with young babies come into rescue with all sorts of nasties and often advances cases.

The ivermectin dose and strength is tailored to the body weight. Your vet will treat with xeno 50 instead of xeno 450.
Please leave the judgment to your vet as to wether this is necessary or not. An advanced case of mange mites can do more damage (including a very slow and agonising death) than any xeno ever will, not to mention the pain and misery of an advanced untreated case. ;)
Sometimes you can box yourself into a very small corner when you hover obsessively over your piggy and over-research because you can easily lose any sense of perspective and proportion.
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Thank you. Really, thank you. I am caught in a whirlwind of fear so I appreciate your post so much.
 
They're just leaving now. Ceri is tucked in her carrier with her snuggle sack and a towel over the top to protect her from the weather. She looks quite comfortable actually, i'm being sent photos. She's got hay, readigrass and a treaty sprinkle of alfalfa. It's cool and sprinkling rain outside... I'm on the edge of puking. Long few hours ahead.
 
We all know what you going through! All been there, done there and feel your pain!
 
I know that feeling - I just wish my little one would be fully better and stay well so I can relax a bit! At the moment it is rounds of medication, feeds cleaning. Then the Locust yesterday went around and ate everyone's little gem lettuce (which I usually only put one portion out of but because it was something Ziggy actually ate I put more out) and have herself a runny bottom so I am now pumping probiotics into them too!
 
She is on her way home now, sent with some anti parasitic and antifungal shampoo too but said we can wait to use that if we are concerned about her chest.

Poor poor baby. No wonder she has been twitching.

We have never dealt with lice before, should we be prepared for full on seizures? Celine has advised us to comb her once a day
 
At least you have your answer. Thank goodness. The vet has probably already said but best to patch test shampoo behind the ear for 48 hours. If she has had selemectin you will need to wait 48 hours before bathing anyway. Hopefully she will start to feel more comfortable now.
 
I have only known seizures with mange mites which are under the skin but I don't have much experience of lice.
 
My old girl was loping with lice when I got her - nothing bad happened. They don’t blood suck so hopefully you will be fine. I’ve onky heard of seizures with mites too.
 
She's home, had her selemectin (I managed to spray the first tube all over myself so will have to call the vet for more, doi...) and is now very happily pipping around her cage, running zoomies, eating hay and chatting to herself. Fingers crossed it will only get better from here.
 
Thanks for the update, sending love and vibes x
 
Just wanted to post something about Ceridwen that made me happy, instead of fretting for once: she's a baby pig that apparently LOVES green pepper from the get go. I just offered her a slice to see what she would make of it, expecting her to turn her nose up, but she snatched it from my fingers and went off to her hidey to scoff the lot. Seeing things like that right now just make me feel so much better...
 
Well, what a difference twelve hours has already made. I have a new piggy. She is already far less itchy and her skin is faaaaar less inflamed. This morning I was able to clean and cream her without having to get OH to restrain her. She just sat happily in my lap and let me work while talking to me. She's a very chatty girl and I like to think she's telling me all about how she's feeling. I can't believe the difference in such a small amount of time. She scoffed up her brekky (managed to choke on a bit of hay but I got her out and gave her a good rub, when I put her back she went straight back to eating so I'm sure she's fine) as well as 9ml of the Emeraid/Critical Care mixture, was being an absolute tearaway pushing her snuggle sack around from the inside and just seems so much happier already. Truly remarkable that she's improving so fast.
 
Time to ask a stupid question;

How do I know when it is safe to stop her antibiotic for the URI?

It's really, really improved. Her nose is dry now (don't want to jinx it by typing that...) No snot at all for 48 hours. She's still sneezing, but that's really really reduced. I've discussed with my vet and she's happy to continue for at least another week. She's said her chest sounds completely clear still.

What I'm afraid of is stopping too soon. What I don't want is to stop next Monday because she seems fine, but there's still some little microbial nasties lasting and we're then potentially in a place where we've got antibiotic resistance to deal with...
 
Also, with the lice, how often should I be cleaning out her cage?

At the moment I have been doing it daily. Now that she's had the anti-parastic medicine and has no open wounds, can I slow this down, or does it still need to be daily?
 
How long has she been on it now? I think she needs at least 2 weeks, some vets will go for 3 weeks. I would clean the cage after every bath and every spot on treatment.
 
helen105281 said:
How long has she been on it now? I think she needs at least 2 weeks, some vets will go for 3 weeks. I would clean the cage after every bath and every spot on treatment.
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She's had 12 days so far. And still not symptom free. I hope my vet will agree to going to three weeks actually. She's tolerating it really well, she's getting tear shaped poops that are slightly soft, but in all I've seen much much worse from antibiotics. I'm giving her probitioc at least 3 times a day with plenty of time between them and the ABs.

Okay, I'm not intending to bath her for a few more days yet, at least not untikl the weekend. i was thinking if I left her cage tonight, but then cleaned tomorrow, 48 hours after the spot on, in the hopes the first batch will be dead, would it be worth doing it then? I don't mind doing it as often as it takes, but I'm worried about my utility bills >.>
 
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