Jasmines health scare update - lung worms?

Back in the winter one of my rabbits Jasmine developed breathing problems. Vet gave her antibiotics in case of chest infection and steroid in case of allergy. Steroid seemed to help for the first month but the next one didnt. Vet thought she had cancer and said all we could do was keep her comfortable. Watching her deteriorate and lose weight was incredibly hard. I took her back to the vets practice and saw another vet who prescibed her stronger antibiotics and I asked if I could I worm her - which I did and since then she is so much better!!
I took her back to the original vet (the one who'd said she might have cancer) and explained that she was so much better since I'd wormed her and he said she might have had lung worms? Is that right? If it is why did he not suggest worming her in the first place? I had her weighed and shes put on weight which is brilliant!! Are lung worms a common thing and was it the panacur that would have killed them or the antibiotics? And where did she get them from in the first place?

Has she had any contact with grass that has been grazed by sheep or cows as lung worm is a parasite with both of these. Farmers routinely dose their cows and sheep for it as well as liver fluke and its caught from the grass.

Certainly from a farmers angle anti worm med would be the treatment so your wormer should have done the trick.

I know more about cows than rabbits!

Slugs carry lung worm too, there's been an increasing problem in dogs over the past few years because they tend to lick slugs (WHY??????) Hedgeholgs also get them because they eats slugs so maybe hogs in the garden could spread it, not sure.
I would think panacur would kill them but I don't know.

I cannot advise you on rabbit health but I do know that panacur dog or cat doesnt treat cat or dog lungworm so I dont think it would for bunnies either. (Might be wrong though?). Lungworm can also be passed on through frogs, toads, farm animals, slugs etc.

http://www.lungworm.co.uk/what-is-this-lungworm/?gclid=CPiz34Kouq8CFULN3wod0EUtig

Hi thanks for your replies. No she hasnt been near farm animals. She just lives in my back garden. I did try to google lung worms and rabbits and didnt find any info. Maybe it wasnt lung worms but thankfully shes so much better now and putting on weight which is the main thing. I would love to know what was wrong with her so that it dosnt happen again but at least she is better now.

I asked my vet some time ago if rabbits could catch lungworm and he said "No".

Lungworms

ChristyRose said:

Back in the winter one of my rabbits Jasmine developed breathing problems. Vet gave her antibiotics in case of chest infection and steroid in case of allergy. Steroid seemed to help for the first month but the next one didnt. Vet thought she had cancer and said all we could do was keep her comfortable. Watching her deteriorate and lose weight was incredibly hard. I took her back to the vets practice and saw another vet who prescibed her stronger antibiotics and I asked if I could I worm her - which I did and since then she is so much better!!
I took her back to the original vet (the one who'd said she might have cancer) and explained that she was so much better since I'd wormed her and he said she might have had lung worms? Is that right? If it is why did he not suggest worming her in the first place? I had her weighed and shes put on weight which is brilliant!! Are lung worms a common thing and was it the panacur that would have killed them or the antibiotics? And where did she get them from in the first place?

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RATS feast everywhere among the discomposed inmundicia and due to this dangerous combination they can transmit buvonic plague, lungworms /lungworms and other diseases. In this case lungworms transmit Meningitis to humans thru snail slime. African Snails feed on rat feces.After a human handles the snail , doesn't wash their hands and brings them to his mouth; if rat is infected,the person will contrat the disease. How do you know if rat is infected , you don't so treat rats and African and other snails as if they do until you get more info. African land Snails from Nigeria brought here by people as pets then later abandon in streets, empty lots or woods somewhere. They can spread like wild fire up to 1100 eggs per year; each snail. By the way rats will visit your rabbit IF! they are outside and if you leave tray with tiffany pellets during the night so remove it every night before going to bed as a Precaution.

Suggestion: Get in the internet and research as much as possible ,then when acquiring a supposed specialist , go for it . Mind you they can be very expensive and most of the time they exploits your needs by elongating visits just to feed on your pocketbook.

I've certainly had experience of hedgehogs with lungworms (because, as has been said, they eat slugs) but never heard of rabbits having them.

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Yes they can! I lost three females to lungworms.

YES! I bet this vet doesn't even own a rabbit. Just because a vet goes to school doesn't mean the school went thru him. All is passion you have to love so you can be good at it.

Hi Christyrose

What were Jasmines symptoms initially.