Dolomite66
Junior Guinea Pig
Hoping someone could help me out here as I'm worried.
My poor Ginnie has been in the wars recently. Back in October she had a stone flushed out of her urether. She had been on a balanced cal/phos diet previous to the stone forming (all my pigs are on this low calcium diet and filtered water). She made a full recovery but then had signs of what I thought looked like ovarian cysts - large crusty nipples and bald patches down one side.
An x ray ruled out cysts but the vet took some samples around the hair loss and she was diagnosed with ringworm.
She was given itrafungol oral 0.5ml x 2 daily which she has now been taking for a week. Last night I noticed her poops were very squishy so I gave her 1ml fibreplex. This moring her poops were worse and I got some poop soup made up which she took with some critical care.
Her weight had dropped so I offered her some more critical care and she ate 20mls off a little dish. She'll be getting more throughout the day.
She's not off her food I've just given her extra veggies and grass which she's polished off, no problem.
But to make matters worse I've noticed blood in her urine again this morning so she's now on 0.2 ml dog strength metacam x 2 daily (I had a whole bottle when she had her last episode of cystitis and didn't use it all).
The question I'm posing is what has caused her horrible soft poops? Is it the itrafungol? Or is it linked to her cystitis?
She will be booked in to the vets tomorrow and I'm going to ask for an x ray to rule out another stone. And maybe an ultra sound to check her bladder wall lining. Should I be thinking of Pyrometra at this stage?
She has been producing crystals in her urine and I've been syringing about 60mls of extra fluids - barley water, vit c (in an attempt to try and change the urine PH balance) but it seems to have had no effect (the blood in her urine this morning). She's also on 1 capsule of Cystease in 1ml water x 2 daily.
Oh by the way she's 3 and a half years old.
Any thoughts would be very welcome as I'm worried.
My poor Ginnie has been in the wars recently. Back in October she had a stone flushed out of her urether. She had been on a balanced cal/phos diet previous to the stone forming (all my pigs are on this low calcium diet and filtered water). She made a full recovery but then had signs of what I thought looked like ovarian cysts - large crusty nipples and bald patches down one side.
An x ray ruled out cysts but the vet took some samples around the hair loss and she was diagnosed with ringworm.
She was given itrafungol oral 0.5ml x 2 daily which she has now been taking for a week. Last night I noticed her poops were very squishy so I gave her 1ml fibreplex. This moring her poops were worse and I got some poop soup made up which she took with some critical care.
Her weight had dropped so I offered her some more critical care and she ate 20mls off a little dish. She'll be getting more throughout the day.
She's not off her food I've just given her extra veggies and grass which she's polished off, no problem.
But to make matters worse I've noticed blood in her urine again this morning so she's now on 0.2 ml dog strength metacam x 2 daily (I had a whole bottle when she had her last episode of cystitis and didn't use it all).
The question I'm posing is what has caused her horrible soft poops? Is it the itrafungol? Or is it linked to her cystitis?
She will be booked in to the vets tomorrow and I'm going to ask for an x ray to rule out another stone. And maybe an ultra sound to check her bladder wall lining. Should I be thinking of Pyrometra at this stage?
She has been producing crystals in her urine and I've been syringing about 60mls of extra fluids - barley water, vit c (in an attempt to try and change the urine PH balance) but it seems to have had no effect (the blood in her urine this morning). She's also on 1 capsule of Cystease in 1ml water x 2 daily.
Oh by the way she's 3 and a half years old.
Any thoughts would be very welcome as I'm worried.
