Bunny illness

[ljefferies]

I have a female Dutch rabbit around 4 years old. For 18 months now she has been having an intermittantdrooling problem which starts with dribbling and bobbing her head and then turns into snot coming out of her nose which seems saturated with it as she struggles to breath. We've been to A&E with her when it first happened and then to our vets so often we must be paying his entire salary! At first it was thought to be an alergic reaction (not her teeth - she's had them done and she's still doing it) and various antibiotics. She's recently had a swab taken and a particularly nasty bacteria was found so she was given a course of Tylan antibiotic which hasn't helped. The vet has tried a number of things including flushing her sinuses but so far nothing has helped. Does any one else know of this problem and offer any advice? We'd love for our bunny to be healthy but this problem is causing her distress.

Thanks

 

[Pipp]

Did they do x-rays of the tooth roots?

Do you know what the bacteria was?

When she's 'bobbing', is her nose bobbing in the air? Or does she seem weak and wobbly with her head down?

Does your vet know that rabbits can have injectable penicillin? (Just never oral). The treatment that has worked the best for abscesses and I think chronic URIs on this side of the water is an injectable PenG or Bicillin combined with an oral antibiotic like Zithromax or ChlorPalm.

Unfortunately the UK doesn't have PenG or Bicillin for some reason. You do have Convenia, however, which has worked in a lot of cases. (The vet just has to be aware that rabbits need almost weekly injections, not every 14 days like cats/dogs).

If the vet has done a culture, they should be able to tell if something like that will work for your rabbit. Often it just takes the right drugs or the right combo of drugs (sometimes for life), although this is one of the more mysterious aliments that seems to plague older rabbits.

Hope she gets better soon.


sas :clover:

 

[jamesedwardwaller]

ljefferies wrote:

I have a female Dutch rabbit around 4 years old. For 18 months now she has been having an intermittantdrooling problem which starts with dribbling and bobbing her head and then turns into snot coming out of her nose which seems saturated with it as she struggles to breath. We've been to A&E with her when it first happened and then to our vets so often we must be paying his entire salary! At first it was thought to be an alergic reaction (not her teeth - she's had them done and she's still doing it) and various antibiotics. She's recently had a swab taken and a particularly nasty bacteria was found so she was given a course of Tylan antibiotic which hasn't helped. The vet has tried a number of things including flushing her sinuses but so far nothing has helped. Does any one else know of this problem and offer any advice? We'd love for our bunny to be healthy but this problem is causing her distress.

Thanks

this requires an exotic specialist-not a want to be.//.-here is a link for drooling,etc. http://www.medirabbit.com ,i wish i could be more positive,,with prey animals-they inheritantly hide pain to the point of dying--the bun requires radiographs,cultures-for the proper diagnosis--treatment/antibiotics--a word of caution the the timer has already started,,--hoping for the best--sincerely james wallerray:

 

[Maureen Las]

Pipp wrote:

Did they do x-rays of the tooth roots?

Do you know what the bacteria was?

When she's 'bobbing', is her nose bobbing in the air? Or does she seem weak and wobbly with her head down?

Does your vet know that rabbits can have injectable penicillin? (Just never oral). The treatment that has worked the best for abscesses and I think chronic URIs on this side of the water is an injectable PenG or Bicillin combined with an oral antibiotic like Zithromax or ChlorPalm.

Unfortunately the UK doesn't have PenG or Bicillin for some reason. You do have Convenia, however, which has worked in a lot of cases. (The vet just has to be aware that rabbits need almost weekly injections, not every 14 days like cats/dogs).

If the vet has done a culture, they should be able to tell if something like that will work for your rabbit. Often it just takes the right drugs or the right combo of drugs (sometimes for life), although this is one of the more mysterious aliments that seems to plague older rabbits.

Hope she gets better soon.


sas :clover:

How is this rabbit. ?
I thought that the UK had procaine Pencillin but did not have bicillin and also that it probably cannot be bought over the counter as it is in the US but could be obtained from a vet in injectable form ?
Did you ask the vet about a drug like injectable Conveniaor possible oral chlorampenicalor azithromycin?

Sounds a lot like a stronger antibioitic is needed here

Poor bunny