Stringy Poo?

[Guinea_Lover]

Heya my guinea pig has had lots of issues this month regarding her bladder and now her gut. She had bladder stone surgery a few weeks back, everything went well and good and now all of a sudden she lost her appetite and lost weight, we took her to vets possible gut issue (bloat) so the vet gave her a emeprid injection as well as giving us recovery food for her to have. The vet told us to come back in 2 days time to see how she improves, well today we took her to the vet again as she hasn't improved at all, infact completely given up eating her recovery food and drinking, the vet gave her 2 injections to rehydrate her again, pain killer and antibitoc injections as well. She then told us to keep going with the emeprid as well as the recovery food, and also the pain killer. So far I have given her some cucumber which she has eaten and every hour I have been giving her the recovery food as well as syringing water into her, but just this now I've noticed that her poo was rather stringy? I don't know how to explain it but it was formed as a normal poo and then had like string at the end of it? Could anyone tell me why this is? I will try send a picture on this to show you what I mean, I find it very odd..

 

[ASTRID]

Thats very odd tagging in @Wiebke and @sport_billy maybe they can help ? x

 

[smokeysmummy]

It looks a little like what my smokey had earlier this year. He had gut stasis....was taken off pellets and hay for nearly 2 weeks....literally just 'salady' stuff and recovery. He was sooo poorly and stayed at our vets. His poos were like that until his gut started moving again. He had tramadol/metacam and another (which I can't remember) think it was ranitidine. Hopefully one of the experts will be online shortly x

 

[Wiebke]

Please have him checked by a vet and take him off any fresh food. Hand feed if necessary to keep the guts going and make sure that he is also hydrated.
http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/complete-hand-feeding-guide.115359/

 

[Guinea_Lover]

Thank you for your replies everyone :-) really appreciate it! @Wiebke Spice is currently being hand fed every hour by this recovery food as well as been given water by the syringe, she is still very lethargic and feeling sorry for herself. She was seen to the vets this morning which is why she had the injections just hope she picks up soon. She wont touch any hard food at all such as pellets and hay, although willing to eat some fresh grass and a few bits of celery/cucumber now and then.

 

[Pebble]

Stringy poos is indicative of gut motility issues and your vet has prescribed gut motility drugs which is good. It's also good to note that you now have an oral version and are not reliant on repeat trips for injections. It takes 24hours for what goes in to "come out".....longer if the gut is not moving properly. The most important thing now is to keep food and fluids going in regularly and you should be aiming currently for 20-30ml of critcal care every 2-4 hours...plus syringes of water after each say 5ml of CC - ..night and day. Anything else eaten (eg cucumber, hay, softened nuggests etc) is a bonus.
Until she is able to eat "proper daily volumes" of hay/veg/pellets...you will need to provide CC as supportive care. In the interim, providing she gets at least 120ml per 24hours of CC food/fibre intake, her poops should start to get in "better shape" over the next few days.

HTH