Abi_nurse
Adult Guinea Pig
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I have been struggling to get online for long these days, Ive been having horrible shifts, and next week gets better... I'm on nights. 
At the moment I'm absolutly shattered and just wanted to post an update of my piggies before i feed the furries and turn in for the night.
First of all my boar Polo. If no one has read anywhere he has been suffering from chronic nasel discharge on and off for a little while, hes also been having episodes of troubled breathing. Anyway we seem to have been through everything with him, we have swabbed his nose, once conscious (which came back as very little), and another done under gassed down aneasthetic and poked deeper into his nose. This came back as a bacteria called psuedomonas, it may have been down to possibly a foreign body (ie hay) stuck down his nose. Anyway today he had a deep sedation and a endoscope placed down his nose to have a look... surprise surprise... no hay... nothing. He has had chest xrays, a nasel xray, a heart scan, nothing. He is currently on enrofloxacin (baytril) and metronidazole (flagyl). The next step is I'm going to give him a big hit of antibiotics by injections twice a day poor boy for a couple of weeks. The vet thinks we either have underlying bordertella (he was rescued from a household with rabbits - suspicious), bordertella is apparently very hard to culture on swabs so it may be this, hense the antib inj for him i will start tomorrow. Or he has asthma, which may be the case. For now we will see what the antibiotics do.
My little sow Dill had a small lump on her side i found last week. She was a brave girl while we sampled it. It has come back as a benign sebacious cyst, which we are going to leave unless it grows or becomes uncomfortable.
I thought my poor herd were having an outbreak of fungal. But it seems only one little sow has been effected. My self lilac girl Pickle. She is currently being treated with daily baths of malaseb, which i may add she is not enjoying at all. But on the bright side her skin is beginning to heal well. The rest of the herd are being throughly checked daily.
And finally little boar Merlin seems to be over himself now, he was castrated on 20/2 and decided not to eat much for several days, causing much sleep loss from his mummy slave and subsequent syringe feeds. After a trip back to work with post op bleeding the day after. And then removing the stitches himself he is now popcorning around his cage like a loon again.
And so there is my update. Off to bed i go...
x.
At the moment I'm absolutly shattered and just wanted to post an update of my piggies before i feed the furries and turn in for the night.First of all my boar Polo. If no one has read anywhere he has been suffering from chronic nasel discharge on and off for a little while, hes also been having episodes of troubled breathing. Anyway we seem to have been through everything with him, we have swabbed his nose, once conscious (which came back as very little), and another done under gassed down aneasthetic and poked deeper into his nose. This came back as a bacteria called psuedomonas, it may have been down to possibly a foreign body (ie hay) stuck down his nose. Anyway today he had a deep sedation and a endoscope placed down his nose to have a look... surprise surprise... no hay... nothing. He has had chest xrays, a nasel xray, a heart scan, nothing. He is currently on enrofloxacin (baytril) and metronidazole (flagyl). The next step is I'm going to give him a big hit of antibiotics by injections twice a day
poor boy for a couple of weeks. The vet thinks we either have underlying bordertella (he was rescued from a household with rabbits - suspicious), bordertella is apparently very hard to culture on swabs so it may be this, hense the antib inj for him i will start tomorrow. Or he has asthma, which may be the case. For now we will see what the antibiotics do.My little sow Dill had a small lump on her side i found last week. She was a brave girl while we sampled it. It has come back as a benign sebacious cyst, which we are going to leave unless it grows or becomes uncomfortable.
I thought my poor herd were having an outbreak of fungal. But it seems only one little sow has been effected. My self lilac girl Pickle. She is currently being treated with daily baths of malaseb, which i may add she is not enjoying at all. But on the bright side her skin is beginning to heal well. The rest of the herd are being throughly checked daily.
And finally little boar Merlin seems to be over himself now, he was castrated on 20/2 and decided not to eat much for several days, causing much sleep loss from his mummy slave and subsequent syringe feeds. After a trip back to work with post op bleeding the day after. And then removing the stitches himself he is now popcorning around his cage like a loon again.
And so there is my update. Off to bed i go...
x.
