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When should I stop baytril?

kitabird

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Odin has been on Baytril for 11 days now for a URI. He's getting 0.2 ml twice a day. His noisy/wheezy breathing cleared up some time ago, but I do still hear sneezes coming from the cage. The vet had said to give the antibiotics for 14 days, but she also said to put it in the drinking water, so I'm not sure I could trust her advice if I called her or took Odin back for another appointment. I don't want to stop too soon and find that his breathing becomes snuffly again.
 
I would finish the course. That way you can be sure he has had the full dose. It's good he responded to the antibiotics though. Is he eating ok and bright in himself?
 
Finish the 14 days, URIs can sometimes recur if the full course is not completed. In addition, just like in humans, improper use of antibiotics contributes to antibiotic-resistant bacteria and no one wants that!
 
I would finish the full 14 days. It seems odd that the vet said to put it in the drinking water though!
 
Always finish a full course of antibiotics, whether it is for yourself or for your pet and don't stop as soon the symptoms have disappeared! It doesn't mean that all bacteria have yet been got at, just enough to allay the acute symptoms.

If left, the reservoir can cause a new outbreak at some point. The remaining bacteria can also do long term damage to the respiratory system even if they never cause another acute outbreak and can develop resistance to that particular antibiotic - not good news if she has another URI at some point!

My 4 year old adoptee Ffraid has proven that her undertreated URI earlier in life lead to upper and lower lung disease when she developed crackly and laboured breathing later in life and needed nebulising as an older lady. It took me two years and several vet trips until she could be properly diagnosed by a very experienced vet with a very good stethoscope.
 
Thanks @Wiebke I just didn't know if 14 days was the right amount of time, or if the vet had that wrong since she didn't seem to know much about guinea pigs.
 
kitabird said:
Thanks @Wiebke I just didn't know if 14 days was the right amount of time, or if the vet had that wrong since she didn't seem to know much about guinea pigs.
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14 days is a reasonable length of treatment for URI as symptoms can last for a good week. ;)
 
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