Mad Bunster
Mama Doe
I know there are several RUers who have buns on lifelong antibiotics and that it can be done successfully - but I'm in a quandry over Maddie. She has recurrent jaw abscesses and osteomyellitis. However - she also has horrible skin reactions to the injections.
Her fur falls out in clumps and she is left with very itchy and flakey skin and has in the past, had stasis from all the fur she is grooming off herself. After her last course of injections ( 8 weeks, before the skin thing started ) she was abscess free for 7 months - although for some of that time she wasn't quite right - not ill, but just "off colour".
I'm not sure that keeping her on the abx is the right thing? If there were no side effects - I'd be happy to knowing its the best way to deal with the infection, but thats not the case. At the moment we are injecting anywhere apart from the scruff (ouch) and so far there is no reaction anywhere else.
So...what to do. Continue with the jabs and risk more skin trouble. Or stop the jabs and treat abscesses when (if) they return?? She does cope well with the GAs and ops, so is this every 6 months better than being stabbed every other day? She is currently bouncy and the happiest little bun ever
Her fur falls out in clumps and she is left with very itchy and flakey skin and has in the past, had stasis from all the fur she is grooming off herself. After her last course of injections ( 8 weeks, before the skin thing started ) she was abscess free for 7 months - although for some of that time she wasn't quite right - not ill, but just "off colour".
I'm not sure that keeping her on the abx is the right thing? If there were no side effects - I'd be happy to knowing its the best way to deal with the infection, but thats not the case. At the moment we are injecting anywhere apart from the scruff (ouch) and so far there is no reaction anywhere else.
So...what to do. Continue with the jabs and risk more skin trouble. Or stop the jabs and treat abscesses when (if) they return?? She does cope well with the GAs and ops, so is this every 6 months better than being stabbed every other day? She is currently bouncy and the happiest little bun ever