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Kidney failure

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tracey_p

Young Bun
My 14 month old lion head cross Callie has just been diagnosed with kidney failure. She has had 3 bouts of guts stasis in the last 3 months and thought it was down to a hairball. The vet decided to run a blood and urine test. At the moment she is on Metoclopramide injections,Prepulsid tablets and fluids via subcutaneous injections. She has started to eat by herself now and is slowly getting back to her normal self. I am waiting to hear form the vet once she has spoken to a rabbit vet.
Does anyone have any experience with this in rabbits and treatment regimes? Does anyone have rabbits with kidney failure?
I would be grateful for any info,
Thanks,
Tracey
 
PS - after I posted above I saw another thread on e-cuniculi - This is a major cause of kidney damage in rabbits, so I would say she should also (as well as the diuretic mentioned above) have a 6 week course of panacur wormer, which will stop the parasite doing further damage if that's what's happened, and won't do any harm if it's nothing to do with a parasite either. Any other rabbits that run in the same area as the affected one need treating too - and it is a 6 week course although a lot of vets don't know that - no harm in it it's just a bit of a pain to administer daily for 6 weeks.
 
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