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Really thorough vet check :)

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Well we just spent 35 minutes with the vet getting bloaty Puggle and scabby Jezebel floof a very thorough piggy MOT!

Alessandro the vet at Penny Lane Vets4Pets is brilliant and loves guinea pigs so much :)

So Jezebel has a very mild case of hay mites in her bum fluff. He only saw 1 mite but seeing as she's been scratching he gave her the Xeno topical mite treatment and we have 2 more follow up doses 2 weeks apart. And she got a nice groom and a trim of her grungy toenails. He agrees her nails are growing too curved after a history of being obese in a hamster cage on hard flooring, and they just need keeping up to.

Puggle probably has a narrow section of her intestine, or a dodgy valve at the bottom of her stomach, which keeps going into spasm and cramping up and triggering her bloat and tummy pains. She has no gut blockage and no UTI, probably just a naturally crampy and delicate digestive system. We have a big supply of Zantac and Loxicom and she's just to have it at the first signs of tummy ache. If she gets bloaty or crampy more than once a week, or it lasts more than 24 hours, or the zantac doesn't help, we need to go back and have more tests but there's not much else can be done.

Puggle got a nail trim too, the lovely vet put his routine dog appointments on hold to do piggy pedicures because he just loves piggy feet :)

So that was a very well spent morning and £128! Hopefully the whole herd won't need mite treatment but there were no mites visible on Puggle and only 1 visible on Jezzy floof so he said treating the whole herd on spec was a bit unnecessary if nobody else is itchy or bald...
 
I just thought to add that another great thing was that even though Alessandro hadn't seen bloaty Puggle before, he knew all about her because the vets have meetings where they share interesting case studies with each other and so he'd seen Puggle's xrays and knew her history and he was very pleased to meet her in person! When she was very ill 7 weeks ago she was the worst acute bloat case they'd seen and successfully treated so she's a bit of a celebrity and welcome to come back as a priority case whenever she has a tummy ache :)
 
Glad you have found such a great vet.

@sport_billy perhaps one to be added to the vet locator? I didn't see them on there but then I am jetlagged lol
 
PigglePuggle said:
Just asked in the recommended vet thread :) they are very good and talk to the piggies like they are real people!
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Awesome, it's great when we find new vets through members. Can never have too many on the list :)
 
Sounds like an outstanding vet.
Glad both girls are easily treated.
Hope the mites clear up quickly.
 
@PigglePuggle It sounds like you've found a great vet. It makes you feel much more comfortable when they're ill doesn't it?!

It might be worth remembering about Cisapride if the issue continues. The gut med's all work on different areas and if it is her intestine that is involved then Cisapride might be of help. One of my boys is on it long term as he has digestive issues.

Unfortunately it's really expensive :(
 
Jaycey said:
@PigglePuggle It sounds like you've found a great vet. It makes you feel much more comfortable when they're ill doesn't it?!

It might be worth remembering about Cisapride if the issue continues. The gut med's all work on different areas and if it is her intestine that is involved then Cisapride might be of help. One of my boys is on it long term as he has digestive issues.

Unfortunately it's really expensive :(
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The vet thinks at an educated guess its most probably a problem with the pyloric valve at the bottom of her stomach as he's seen that issue before in a similar case of very sudden stomach cramps that sometimes resolve quickly and other times progress to bloat, but he was very open to suggestions (he's a lovely man, listens very carefully and talks to the piggies and handles them like an expert) and I will definitely suggest cisapride if the problem continues or gets worse, thank you!
 
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