Hello friends:wave:
A couple of weeks ago my boy wasn't right. His droppings were loose as were his caecotrophs and his tummy slowed right down. I'm not sure what caused this but he isn't keen on his greens at the moment. My vet gave him a few days of metronidazole and some metaclopromide. The metronidazole didn't really have any effect so we discontinued that. His tum has settled although he still has the odd soft dropping at the moment. I have noticed he doesn't look comfortable and I think it's his tum.
He had a dental on the 6th march and his teeth have been checked and the vet couldn't see any signs of spurs. He usually goes three months between dentals.
I'm wondering if perhaps he has an ulcer as they can develop due to stasis etc and my boy often has a slow tummy. He has dental probs and hardly eats any hay.
I have started him on a course of ranitidine but somebody I know suggested using antepsin and rantidine together. I'm not sure about using antepsin as I have looked it up on the internet and it says it can cause Bezoars (an insoluble mass formed with the gastric lumen), underlying conditions such as delayed gastric emptying may predispose to bezoar formation. So I'm not sure about using it with my boy. Has anybody else used this with their buns?
I may be barking up the wrong tree with the rantidine but I thought I would give it a go and see if it makes any difference.
Nicola and Harvey xxx
A couple of weeks ago my boy wasn't right. His droppings were loose as were his caecotrophs and his tummy slowed right down. I'm not sure what caused this but he isn't keen on his greens at the moment. My vet gave him a few days of metronidazole and some metaclopromide. The metronidazole didn't really have any effect so we discontinued that. His tum has settled although he still has the odd soft dropping at the moment. I have noticed he doesn't look comfortable and I think it's his tum.
He had a dental on the 6th march and his teeth have been checked and the vet couldn't see any signs of spurs. He usually goes three months between dentals.
I'm wondering if perhaps he has an ulcer as they can develop due to stasis etc and my boy often has a slow tummy. He has dental probs and hardly eats any hay.
I have started him on a course of ranitidine but somebody I know suggested using antepsin and rantidine together. I'm not sure about using antepsin as I have looked it up on the internet and it says it can cause Bezoars (an insoluble mass formed with the gastric lumen), underlying conditions such as delayed gastric emptying may predispose to bezoar formation. So I'm not sure about using it with my boy. Has anybody else used this with their buns?
I may be barking up the wrong tree with the rantidine but I thought I would give it a go and see if it makes any difference.
Nicola and Harvey xxx
