Pipp
Well-Known Member
Just got a call from a woman with a bunny with head tilt.
History:
She has two bunnies - one lop, one uppity ear bunny.
One, then the other, came down with a weepy eye four months ago. The vet prescribed oral Chlor Palm and I think Doxycycline. (She said it was oral, but I think it must have been drops?? I'll have to check, she lost her phone connection).
It cleared up, but...
Right around Christmas, the lop (which she says only weighs 2 lbs, but I suspect he's 2 kg), came down with head tilt.
He's eating and reasonably straight, but rolls when stressed, which is when she takes him to the vet (and when he gets his meds).
She now has him on 50 mg penicillin injections (duplocillin, which I assume is Canadian bicillin -- (150,000 I.U. procaine penicillin G and 150,000 I.U. benzathine penicillin G) and she says injectable Baytril.
One of them -- or both -- is tough to inject with the needles she was given. I don't know the gage. She had a hard time sticking it in, and it would blow out the connection when she hit the plunger).
She also has him on Panacur, which she herself requested after seeing it on a website somewhere.
I'll be calling her back for more info, but if anybody has suggestions off the top about needle gages and the drug regime, chime in!
sas :?
History:
She has two bunnies - one lop, one uppity ear bunny.
One, then the other, came down with a weepy eye four months ago. The vet prescribed oral Chlor Palm and I think Doxycycline. (She said it was oral, but I think it must have been drops?? I'll have to check, she lost her phone connection).
It cleared up, but...
Right around Christmas, the lop (which she says only weighs 2 lbs, but I suspect he's 2 kg), came down with head tilt.
He's eating and reasonably straight, but rolls when stressed, which is when she takes him to the vet (and when he gets his meds).
She now has him on 50 mg penicillin injections (duplocillin, which I assume is Canadian bicillin -- (150,000 I.U. procaine penicillin G and 150,000 I.U. benzathine penicillin G) and she says injectable Baytril.
One of them -- or both -- is tough to inject with the needles she was given. I don't know the gage. She had a hard time sticking it in, and it would blow out the connection when she hit the plunger).
She also has him on Panacur, which she herself requested after seeing it on a website somewhere.
I'll be calling her back for more info, but if anybody has suggestions off the top about needle gages and the drug regime, chime in!
sas :?