lottiepatt
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Hi all,
Seeking some advice from the UK. My bunny Pierre has had a few abscesses, he was seen by vets and treated with baytril, they went away at first but one since came back on his front leg but it didn't appear to be causing any issues so the vet advised we leave it. A few weeks ago he went lame on his back leg, didn't appear to be broken/fractured but it was quite swollen and warm to the touch and so he's been treated with antibiotic and painkiller. Because his back leg wasn't improving as the vet would have hoped he took a culture and it's come back as MRSA. Taking the culture seems to have brought the infection to a head and it's now clear that there is a lot of puss on both sides of the leg (in the first few weeks it was just swollen), some started oozing out of one side of his leg yesterday and when we touched it (with gloves because of the MRSA) a lot poured out quite quickly. Our vet doesn't seem keen to drain the leg which we would be happy to do now that we can see there is infection.
Has anyone's bun had MRSA? Is there a way back for him? He's happy and perky and eating, you wouldn't know anything was wrong with him and he can use the back leg again now and is happily hopping around the garden, so we don't want to give up on him just yet. We are handling him with gloves when we give him medication etc because of the MRSA risk.
Any advice gratefully received.
Seeking some advice from the UK. My bunny Pierre has had a few abscesses, he was seen by vets and treated with baytril, they went away at first but one since came back on his front leg but it didn't appear to be causing any issues so the vet advised we leave it. A few weeks ago he went lame on his back leg, didn't appear to be broken/fractured but it was quite swollen and warm to the touch and so he's been treated with antibiotic and painkiller. Because his back leg wasn't improving as the vet would have hoped he took a culture and it's come back as MRSA. Taking the culture seems to have brought the infection to a head and it's now clear that there is a lot of puss on both sides of the leg (in the first few weeks it was just swollen), some started oozing out of one side of his leg yesterday and when we touched it (with gloves because of the MRSA) a lot poured out quite quickly. Our vet doesn't seem keen to drain the leg which we would be happy to do now that we can see there is infection.
Has anyone's bun had MRSA? Is there a way back for him? He's happy and perky and eating, you wouldn't know anything was wrong with him and he can use the back leg again now and is happily hopping around the garden, so we don't want to give up on him just yet. We are handling him with gloves when we give him medication etc because of the MRSA risk.
Any advice gratefully received.