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Junior Guinea Pig
HELP -Any advice on what to do next, please.
Bongo will be 3 in late march. He was fine until last August when he started to have trouble eating. Our vet trimmed his teeth (under GA as they won't do otherwise). He recovered well but about a month later developed an abscess just behind his jaw. After 6 or 7 visits we finally got him through that (a bit to the vets amazement).
He was fine then until the New Year (Bank Holiday of course) when he started dribbling and having trouble eating again. The vet did a second dental and reported "Bongo has a very abnormal tooth growing at the rear ....in an impossible position to remove". He was much slower recovering this time and I knew he couldn't have another GA.
On 10th Jan I took him to a recommended couple in Ipswich (about an hour away) and they retrimmed his teeth without GA and said that he had a "rogue" yellow tooth right at his jaw. Because this tooth was sort of rubbery and because of it's position they could not get a hold on it. They said his best hope was Vedra.
Since then he's been 3 times to Vedra (an hour and 40 mins away) who cannot see the problem tooth and who gave my OH the phone number of someone she recommended in Ipswich as they were a bit nearer. This turned out to be the couple who sent me to Vedra. (She did give him nystatin for an oral fungal infection).
This monday we took him to Ipswich again and they've done the best they could again but say this rogue tooth is putting things out of alignment and they also talked of the possibility that it could be growing down into his jaw.
I've been syringe feeding him since the New Year, at first just a bit, then up to 4 times a day. Before this started he was about 1330g. Since New Year this has followed a slow downward trend and today he was 1106g.
He takes the syringe only in the right side of his mouth as you look at him, he has trouble with the water bottle drinking a fair bit less than he used too, he seems to shy away from vegetables and can't seem to pick up hay or pass it very well through his mouth even when I stick it in for him.
What next!
Bongo will be 3 in late march. He was fine until last August when he started to have trouble eating. Our vet trimmed his teeth (under GA as they won't do otherwise). He recovered well but about a month later developed an abscess just behind his jaw. After 6 or 7 visits we finally got him through that (a bit to the vets amazement).
He was fine then until the New Year (Bank Holiday of course) when he started dribbling and having trouble eating again. The vet did a second dental and reported "Bongo has a very abnormal tooth growing at the rear ....in an impossible position to remove". He was much slower recovering this time and I knew he couldn't have another GA.
On 10th Jan I took him to a recommended couple in Ipswich (about an hour away) and they retrimmed his teeth without GA and said that he had a "rogue" yellow tooth right at his jaw. Because this tooth was sort of rubbery and because of it's position they could not get a hold on it. They said his best hope was Vedra.
Since then he's been 3 times to Vedra (an hour and 40 mins away) who cannot see the problem tooth and who gave my OH the phone number of someone she recommended in Ipswich as they were a bit nearer. This turned out to be the couple who sent me to Vedra. (She did give him nystatin for an oral fungal infection).
This monday we took him to Ipswich again and they've done the best they could again but say this rogue tooth is putting things out of alignment and they also talked of the possibility that it could be growing down into his jaw.
I've been syringe feeding him since the New Year, at first just a bit, then up to 4 times a day. Before this started he was about 1330g. Since New Year this has followed a slow downward trend and today he was 1106g.
He takes the syringe only in the right side of his mouth as you look at him, he has trouble with the water bottle drinking a fair bit less than he used too, he seems to shy away from vegetables and can't seem to pick up hay or pass it very well through his mouth even when I stick it in for him.
What next!
