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urgently need some critical care

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Hi, as some of you know my guinea is suffering from very serious uti infection, she has no apetite hardly and I need to get her eating normally again, she is only eating a small amount of leaves or cucumber, nothing with any substance to keep her going. Where can I get some critical care in a hurry? I have given her some weetabix mixed with water tonight by syringe, she puts up such a fight not to have any.
 
If you can mash pellets in warm water that would work but I find it such a to do.

What about PDSA is there one local or a vet? Maybe ring around some tomorrow that are open half day Saturday.
 
Pets at Home pellets mash the easiest and makes a really smooth liquid for syringing. We are currently using these for a piggy that not eating.
 
Try your local vet in the morning, as an emergency try human baby food too. Something like carrot and swede, you should be able to get that anywhere.

You can make something up your self if you have a little hand blender. You can grate cucumber and carrot and add water then blend. Even pick a little bit of grass. I wouldn't give her any weetabix but maybe she would like some organic porrige oats. Offering her little and often aswell as syringing should help, try grating the food too.

I can post you on some Nutri powder if you pm me your address but I know it won't get there until Monday.

If you need to get some CC or Nutripowder online try ringing Thistle Cavies Rescue or Galens Garden - both will ship out urgently too.

Galens Garden also do some great supplements of Vitamin C which she will need to aid her recovery. Have a look at their website.

Hope something works pretty soon. :)
 
Thanks everyone for your advice, rang my vet this morning, they have some critical care in so I am going to pick some up this morning. Pinkie is really giving me some cause for concern, cos she has no apetite, and seems to flounder about with tiny bites of cucumber etc. Anyhow will try critical care later and keep my fingers crossed. She has lost 100g in five days.
 
Glad you managed to get some Sharon. I find wrapping iin a blanket a help when feeding CC.

Keep us posted on how she is!

x
 
It's vital that she keeps her gut functioning. Try little and often with the syringe, she really needs something at least every hour if you possibly can.

Hope she perks up today, keep us posted.
 
I'm sorry things aren't looking so good at the moment. I hope the Critical Care picks her appetite up quickly. xx
 
Glad you tracked down some CC for Pinkie - hope she soon picks up.

I have used complan (for humans) in the past for piggies with little or no appetite and it has worked really well. It is available for most supermarkets so is easy to get hold of. Mine like the strawberry flavour best!

Sending hugs

Teresa x
 
Glad to hear you've got some SharonS. I always find that my pigs go "off" with antibiotic, and especially if she had a bladder washout, fingers crossed that she picks up quickly.
 
Me too, she has lost 100g since monday and she is not a very big pig to begin with. She weighed 0.777g on Monday that was before the vet flushed her bladder out. That seemed to tip her over the edge this time and she went straight off her food, didn't eat anything on Monday. A few moments ago she was nibbling on some hay that I have brought from P@H today, it smells really sweet and has camomile flowers in it.
 
Burgess Excel, in the orange bag, is ideal for syringe feeding. Put some in a container, cover with boiling water, keep topping up the water until no more is absorbed, mix to a creamy consistency, when cool, syringe feed. If you are concrned that the boiling water has destroyed the vitamin C, then dissolve a quarter of an effervescent tablet in water and either mix it into the Excel or else syringe feed. You cannot overdose with vit C
Excel has one big advantage over CC...cost!
The vit C tablets are very cheap when bought as a supermarket own brand.
 
Copious amounts of Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice, ie the natural product NOT the one made from concentrate, will help when the pig has a UTI. Give as much as possible, some pigs will take upto 40ml (forty) a day. When given over the course of a day it isn't as much as it would first appear.
 
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