I may be wrong here and am sure Jill will be along to back me up, but my little Albie suffers, and they struggled to get to the bottom of it if i remember correctly? I think Jill said he was treated with Baytril?
Albie seems to suffer more in winter?!
Does he go off certain foods when he is suffering do you know...
I'm so worried about teddy and don't know what to do for the best. The vet said he needed supportive feeding as at the moment he's only eating greens and a tiny bit of mix. He is still pooing but they are only a couple of mm big (he never does very big droppings anyway, but these are teeny). He just gets so stressed when i'm giving him meds, fibre plex etc and obviously he is finding it harder to breather through his nose so I don't want to stress him further....but I don't want him to continue losing his weight as he is quite thin
I couldnt answer that. He came to me the back end of winter, he was snuffly but not that bad. It took him a while to settle in anyways as they had been in rescue for soo long, so i couldnt really comment. I just noticed that once the weather picked up he seemed so much happier and he was snuffling as much. The insides of his paws got abit sore from him cleaning his nose, i used to bath them. Albie used to sneeze and wheeze, it sounded awful bless him.
I have PM'd Jill asking her to have a look at this thread. I know it was Faye who cared for Albie and Lottie, so she might be along to offer some advice
I hope you manage to sort it for Teddy
I am fostering a rabbit with snuffles at the mo. We have tried 2 other antibiotics including baytril so we are now injecting Ceporex daily and its seems to be keeping it at bay for the moment. However for immediate relief of the blockage i was told to put him in the bathroom with me will i had a steamy bath. I also added some Olbus Oil and it seems to give mine some temporary relief.
I have not had him very long but he munches hay most of the day and tucks into some pellets which I am leaving available to him all day as he is very underweight.
If the baytril isn't working then discussing other options with your vet would be a good idea. If your vet will train you to inject it can be a very effective method of getting to the problem as well as being cheaper (sometimes).
If you don't feel the treatment is working and your bun is suffering please don't hesistate to take him back to the vet, he may need a change of treatment.
Do try the bath thing...I was amazed at the results. Or even just try the olbus oil in his hutch (just keep it out of his reach)...it might just give him enough relief to perk him up and get him eating.
Fingers crossed for you x
Depocillin is what Poppy has been on, as well as now having regular steroid injections. Sadly Poppy's snuffles has got progressively worse & is badly affected by the hot weather. At one point she had a an exploratory to make sure there was nothing stuck up her nose or in her throat making her sneeze so bad - but there wasn't.
We found that baytril & septrin were no help at all with Poppy - but I know each bun is different.
Unfortunately we have been unable to get to the bottom of what is causing Poopy's snuffles & she has been mouth breathing the last few days As well as last Thursday / Friday weeing herself & mucus coming from her bottom - we think there is now some more underlying with Poppy
She is very picky at what she will eat at the moment, but then being so poorly I'm not surprised. One thing she has readily taken off me this morning is some granary bread - I know it's not particularly good for them, but her weight has gone from 2.1kg to 1.7kg - so we'll try whatever we need to. Syringe feeding her is a definite no, due to her mouth breathing.
I'm also going to try the bath / steam that Shel has recommended - hopefully it might help her too.
Thinking of your little lad & hoping you can get him sorted, as I know it's heartbreaking to see them like this xx
In some cases 'Snuffles' can be the result of elongated tooth roots which have penetrated the nasal passages causing inflammation and then infection. This is a chronic condition if its the molar roots that are effected and consequently it is often a case of longterm management rather than a 'cure'.
This may include longterm abx and anti-inflammatories.
Bobbie is the worst case of recurrent Snuffles here. Her's is caused by the damage done to her mucous membranes by the urine soaked environment she endured in her previous 'home' Bobbie can have several 'good' months free of symptoms but then a relapse will occur and she then has to have a 3 week course of Depocillin, one injection every 3 days. Fortunately her GI tract is now able to cope with this regime and her 'Snuffles' symptoms usually resolve after the first two weeks of treatment. Bobbie is also nebulised on saline or Baytril.
Snuffles is often likely to recur if the Immune system is challenged- eg from another concurrent illness, environmental stressors, vaccinations, GAs......etc
I hope your Vet can come up with a treatment regime to help Teddy.
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Before doing the xray, would it be worth your vet thinking about trying another abx other than baytril if that doesn't seem to be make much difference? Hopefully that way it might negate the need for Teddy to be xrayed & have a GA or at least leave more time between the last GA he's just had & the one needed for an xray.
Let us know how Teddy goes on x
You need to find out the real cause of the snuffles otherwise you could be treating the wrong thing, we have two bunnies, a mother and son and both had serious snuffles, they have been treated with a variety of medications, including Baytril, Depocillian, Septrin, Ceporex etc, etc, the list is endless, sometimes it worked for a week or two and sometimes it dodn't, but the fact was that it never did clear up the problem
We then plumped for full xrays and found that the son was suffering from Frontal Sinusitis, he has had his nose drilled so that the pus from the sinus's can drain into his nasal passage, this was only done recently and so far has shown a vast improvement, stangely enough his Mum, although showing the same symtoms, has a totally different problem and is being treated accordingly
I wish I had gone for the xrays in the first instance and it would have saved us loads of money on wasted medications, and the bunny is so much happier since his operation
Hope this helps