LizzyHoy
New Born Pup
Hello, I'm posting to see if anyone else has experience of this condition in their guinea pigs.
Over the past 8 months or so my female guinea pig (aged 2 and a half) has had bleeding from around her bottom area. This has happened 3 or 4 times now. Each time I went to the vet and it cleared up with antibiotics, but came back a few months later. Throughout these periods she has been happy in herself, her eating and behaviour has been normal and she has remained a good stable weight.
As it was happening repeatedly we decided to do an X ray and ultrasound (so she now has a shaved tummy!). These showed that she didn't have any tumours or bladder stones, but that the uterus and bladder walls were thickened and inflamed. The vet thought that was probably from scar tissue from repeated infections, and maybe also her being in season.
I have been given a longer course of antibiotics, as well as anti-inflammatories, to give her for 3 weeks (instead of the 5 day course she has had in the past).
Has anyone else encountered this? If so how did you treat it? I am hoping this course of antibiotics does the trick as she really doesn't like taking them.
Over the past 8 months or so my female guinea pig (aged 2 and a half) has had bleeding from around her bottom area. This has happened 3 or 4 times now. Each time I went to the vet and it cleared up with antibiotics, but came back a few months later. Throughout these periods she has been happy in herself, her eating and behaviour has been normal and she has remained a good stable weight.
As it was happening repeatedly we decided to do an X ray and ultrasound (so she now has a shaved tummy!). These showed that she didn't have any tumours or bladder stones, but that the uterus and bladder walls were thickened and inflamed. The vet thought that was probably from scar tissue from repeated infections, and maybe also her being in season.
I have been given a longer course of antibiotics, as well as anti-inflammatories, to give her for 3 weeks (instead of the 5 day course she has had in the past).
Has anyone else encountered this? If so how did you treat it? I am hoping this course of antibiotics does the trick as she really doesn't like taking them.