Whats Next? (URI)

[LennyPig]

Piglet has a URI,

she has now had 2 back to back 5 day courses of baytril (10 days total) and is deffinately getting better.

she is alot better than she was to begin with but is not quite right still so I have her booked back in at the vets AGAIN!

her breathing still sounds a little "whistly" still?

so what would you say is the next step?

can I give her another course of baytril? I think this would sort it but obviously I am not a vet.

she is fine otherwise... eating and drinking as normal, as noisy as normal still and seems perfectly happy otherwise.

oh and her poops are fine... she seems to have a strange fetish for Avipro Plus! so getting probiotics into her has not been a problem at all.

 

[furryfriends (TEAS)]

I think you're doing the right thing by getting her booked back in at the vets. It sounds like she is doing really well though. The very best antibiotic for URI's is Zithromax but very few vets know anything about it.

 

[alcesterpigs]

How do you know it is an infection?

 

[LennyPig]

would there be any issues with continuing baytril for a third lot of 5 days?


alcesterpigs (AKA, oh yea of few, blunt words) = vet diagnosis, and yes I know vets can be wrong so if you think the URI diagnosis may be wrong, why not suggest other possibilities?

furryfriends = thanks, I may mention the Zithromax .

 

[Wiebke]

Here is a link to guinealynx: http://www.guinealynx.info/uri.html

Allergies need to be considered in case of tenacious URI symptoms.

 

[alcesterpigs]

"(AKA, oh yea of few, blunt words"

Concise and, hopefully, precise.
If you have a problem with what I write, then, by defintion it is your problem, not mine!


URTI AND LRTI are quite frequently misdiagnosed. Quite often the problem is an "allergy", which will never respond to antibiotics.
Have you tried letting the pig have a sniff of Olbas Oil, this should relieve the symptoms. Reduce the amount of hay in the box, ie enough to eat but not so much that the pig can burrow underneath.

 

[LennyPig]

"(AKA, oh yea of few, blunt words)"

Concise and, hopefully, precise.
If you have a problem with what I write, then, by defintion it is your problem, not mine!


URTI AND LRTI are quite frequently misdiagnosed. Quite often the problem is an "allergy", which will never respond to antibiotics.
Have you tried letting the pig have a sniff of Olbas Oil, this should relieve the symptoms. Reduce the amount of hay in the box, ie enough to eat but not so much that the pig can burrow underneath.

and the only problem I have with your posts is that you give wonderfully helpfull and informative advice BUT in most cases, only after a short blunt comment which then leads the questioner to have to beg for more info. if you have more info that would be helpful to the person, why not offer it alongside the short blunt comment?

but anyway...

they are housed on vet bed and hay is confined to racks

do you think it could be an allergy even though it has been responding to Baytril already?

and the guinea lynx info states that allergies are relatively rare?

 

[furryfriends (TEAS)]

From what you have said it does sound as if Piglet has shown quite a marked improvement since being on the Baytril, which would suggest she may just need a longer course of antibiotic.

 

[Laura-CCC4]

Hi LP,

What were Piglet's symptoms that led to her initial diagnosis?

I have a few pigs with chronic allergies, the eyes and breathing are usually the most affected.

 

[LennyPig]

Thanks Debbie

Hi Laura, apart from audible breathing (slightly raspy and whistly), she has no other symptoms at all. Eyes and Nose are completely clear.