DottyRabbit
Well-Known Member
Hello everyone, hope that you and your bunnies are all good!!
I posted a few months back a fair bit about my baby bunny who got caught by a cat. She had a nasty, nasty wound on her head, which has healed fantastically despite the vets thinking that may have been the end of her! She did however develop an infection in the ear due to a tear in the ear, and the vets thought it may have to be removed once the infection had cleared. Some of the end of the ear has dropped off but there is still a fair bit which remains healthy so does not need to be removed
We were treating the infected ear with antibiotics (septrin) and daily cleaning and covering in manuka honey. This worked well and it seemed the infection cleared, so we stopped the antibiotics. This was about a month ago.
Yesterday I was playing with the buns and noticed some oozing on her face, which appeared to me as an abscess that had come to the surface and burst, so took her to the vets today and that's what it was. The vet gave it a clean and said to put her back on the septrin and manuka honey and come back on thursday or friday, and we'll go from there. She said the options are a CT scan which will be very expensive, and then see what we can do, but that route in general would be ridiculously expensive and it depends on how deep the infection was as to what they can do, and even if they did operate it's not always successful I asked about stronger antibiotics that you can inject that I've heard about, but she said they're risky (she said they're penicillin which can go either way for bunnies?) but it's worth trying as a last resort if nothing else works.
I was just wondering if anybody could enlighten me as to whether there are any other options or any people who have had bunnies with facial abscesses?
She is absolutely 100% in herself, binkying around, eating, drinking, going to the toilet etc, I just really want her to get fully better
Thanks very much x
P.S. I can attach a photo if that helps, it's a bit gruesome.
I posted a few months back a fair bit about my baby bunny who got caught by a cat. She had a nasty, nasty wound on her head, which has healed fantastically despite the vets thinking that may have been the end of her! She did however develop an infection in the ear due to a tear in the ear, and the vets thought it may have to be removed once the infection had cleared. Some of the end of the ear has dropped off but there is still a fair bit which remains healthy so does not need to be removed
We were treating the infected ear with antibiotics (septrin) and daily cleaning and covering in manuka honey. This worked well and it seemed the infection cleared, so we stopped the antibiotics. This was about a month ago.
Yesterday I was playing with the buns and noticed some oozing on her face, which appeared to me as an abscess that had come to the surface and burst, so took her to the vets today and that's what it was. The vet gave it a clean and said to put her back on the septrin and manuka honey and come back on thursday or friday, and we'll go from there. She said the options are a CT scan which will be very expensive, and then see what we can do, but that route in general would be ridiculously expensive and it depends on how deep the infection was as to what they can do, and even if they did operate it's not always successful I asked about stronger antibiotics that you can inject that I've heard about, but she said they're risky (she said they're penicillin which can go either way for bunnies?) but it's worth trying as a last resort if nothing else works.
I was just wondering if anybody could enlighten me as to whether there are any other options or any people who have had bunnies with facial abscesses?
She is absolutely 100% in herself, binkying around, eating, drinking, going to the toilet etc, I just really want her to get fully better
Thanks very much x
P.S. I can attach a photo if that helps, it's a bit gruesome.