BellaRose19
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi everyone
I just wanted to see if any of you do anything else to what I am already doing, to aid a guinea pig who has bloat (he’s eating normally though) but is producing normal droppings…and his housemate who was just spayed and, the vet thinks, has dry poo stuck in her intestine.
The one with bloat - he is having fibreplex, metacam and infacol. The vet yesterday gave some cisapride and, because he was cleaning some off his housemates chin, critical care which he can’t get fast enough. He is also using a heat pad that initially I put in for his housemate post surgery.
I only started the cisapride yesterday, would you continue using both cisapride and infacol, or use just one?
They’re getting plenty of hay and some fresh food - having chard, cucumber and some celery. Are there any others you would give them, or any of these you’d stop?
Regarding the one spayed:
She has always been alert, soft shiny coat and interested in exploring and seeing what is going on.
The operation was done a couple weeks ago and she wasn’t eating much - stopped eating fresh, so I started her on critical care and, under vets directions gave her infacol, emiprid, continued calpol but stopped metacam.
Her droppings became small and fewer, then the little poo she was producing became diarrhoea-like and a very little amount, to then none at all.
She obviously was in pain and was using the heat pad a lot. Vet upped calpol and said to stop metacam, emiprid and infacol but continue critical care. She also issued baytril and a laxative (along with mirtazapine to encourage eating) because the pain the guinea showed when abdomen was touched the vet wasn’t sure if it was a water infection or something like poo stuck - she could feel a lump in the intestine area, which felt hard.
The guinea produced a small amount of poo over the weekend that was more like normal in terms of colour, but not dropping shape - made me think of cow pats. She didn’t want critical care or fresh either. Nothing else had changed, so yesterday the vet did an x-ray, checked the guineas mouth (all fine) and found the lump in the intestine had reduced in size and was softer. So she massaged the lump a little and said to continue baytril, mirtazapine, critical care, laxative, calpol and start her again on cisapride.
The little guinea is so much happier and interested in fresh food now. She is on the heat pad less, eating more hay and has her voice back. She doesn’t mind being handled now either. But she also started to eat her housemates droppings, but refuses fibreplex. She spits any I give her out - she is a very stubborn little guinea!
She had before been sniffing the fresh I put in, but walked away or turned away from it - like she was hungry but the smell or idea of it made her feel yuk, like we do when we have an upset tummy.
I’m to continue all the med’s and critical care, let the vet know what her poo is like in a few days and I shall take her in to see the vet next Monday. Is there anything else you can think of I could give her (including food wise) or do for her?
Thanks for this.
I just wanted to see if any of you do anything else to what I am already doing, to aid a guinea pig who has bloat (he’s eating normally though) but is producing normal droppings…and his housemate who was just spayed and, the vet thinks, has dry poo stuck in her intestine.
The one with bloat - he is having fibreplex, metacam and infacol. The vet yesterday gave some cisapride and, because he was cleaning some off his housemates chin, critical care which he can’t get fast enough. He is also using a heat pad that initially I put in for his housemate post surgery.
I only started the cisapride yesterday, would you continue using both cisapride and infacol, or use just one?
They’re getting plenty of hay and some fresh food - having chard, cucumber and some celery. Are there any others you would give them, or any of these you’d stop?
Regarding the one spayed:
She has always been alert, soft shiny coat and interested in exploring and seeing what is going on.
The operation was done a couple weeks ago and she wasn’t eating much - stopped eating fresh, so I started her on critical care and, under vets directions gave her infacol, emiprid, continued calpol but stopped metacam.
Her droppings became small and fewer, then the little poo she was producing became diarrhoea-like and a very little amount, to then none at all.
She obviously was in pain and was using the heat pad a lot. Vet upped calpol and said to stop metacam, emiprid and infacol but continue critical care. She also issued baytril and a laxative (along with mirtazapine to encourage eating) because the pain the guinea showed when abdomen was touched the vet wasn’t sure if it was a water infection or something like poo stuck - she could feel a lump in the intestine area, which felt hard.
The guinea produced a small amount of poo over the weekend that was more like normal in terms of colour, but not dropping shape - made me think of cow pats. She didn’t want critical care or fresh either. Nothing else had changed, so yesterday the vet did an x-ray, checked the guineas mouth (all fine) and found the lump in the intestine had reduced in size and was softer. So she massaged the lump a little and said to continue baytril, mirtazapine, critical care, laxative, calpol and start her again on cisapride.
The little guinea is so much happier and interested in fresh food now. She is on the heat pad less, eating more hay and has her voice back. She doesn’t mind being handled now either. But she also started to eat her housemates droppings, but refuses fibreplex. She spits any I give her out - she is a very stubborn little guinea!
She had before been sniffing the fresh I put in, but walked away or turned away from it - like she was hungry but the smell or idea of it made her feel yuk, like we do when we have an upset tummy.
I’m to continue all the med’s and critical care, let the vet know what her poo is like in a few days and I shall take her in to see the vet next Monday. Is there anything else you can think of I could give her (including food wise) or do for her?
Thanks for this.
