I have a feeling I’ve read about choking episodes accompanying respiratory illness somewhere on RU (possibly one of Jack’s Jane’s rabbits?).
Wallace is still very poorly with his lower respiratory infection, he is home now and is on a cocktail of medication plus nebulization.
His lungs are thought to be very damaged. He has intermittent periods of mouth breathing, usually triggered by exertion. Hopping across the room or eating too quickly, or for too long, is enough to trigger an episode. Once the mouth breathing episode has passed, he just goes back to what he was doing previously and continues as normal, or at least what is normal for Wallace.
If the mouth breathing is triggered by eating, it will sometimes be accompanied by a gagging action, like he is trying to be sick. I am sure that he has already swallowed the food by the time he starts mouth breathing, but I wonder if he maybe still has some bits of food in his mouth or at the back of his throat when he extends his neck and this is triggering a minor choking action. No one particular food is responsible, it seems to be quite random and it doesn’t happen every time. His appetite is good and I am giving him his food in small portions, a little and often, to prevent him ‘pigging out’. If he is given too much at once he will try and scoff the lot and end up in even more distress with his breathing. I just wondered if anyone has experience of this or any advice or suggestions on what I can do to help him or to minimise this ‘gagging’ happening.
Just for information, Wallace’s treatment regime is:
Marbocyl (crushed tablet form, administered in solution via syringe once daily)
Duphapen (injection once daily)
Metacam (0.9ml twice daily)
Bisolvon (twice daily on food)
Corvental (twice daily on food)
Nebulisation with F10, three times daily
Any advice would be very much appreciated. I've had experience of lower respiratory infection with my family of three bunnies, but what I am experiencing with Wallace is very different.
Wallace is still very poorly with his lower respiratory infection, he is home now and is on a cocktail of medication plus nebulization.
His lungs are thought to be very damaged. He has intermittent periods of mouth breathing, usually triggered by exertion. Hopping across the room or eating too quickly, or for too long, is enough to trigger an episode. Once the mouth breathing episode has passed, he just goes back to what he was doing previously and continues as normal, or at least what is normal for Wallace.
If the mouth breathing is triggered by eating, it will sometimes be accompanied by a gagging action, like he is trying to be sick. I am sure that he has already swallowed the food by the time he starts mouth breathing, but I wonder if he maybe still has some bits of food in his mouth or at the back of his throat when he extends his neck and this is triggering a minor choking action. No one particular food is responsible, it seems to be quite random and it doesn’t happen every time. His appetite is good and I am giving him his food in small portions, a little and often, to prevent him ‘pigging out’. If he is given too much at once he will try and scoff the lot and end up in even more distress with his breathing. I just wondered if anyone has experience of this or any advice or suggestions on what I can do to help him or to minimise this ‘gagging’ happening.
Just for information, Wallace’s treatment regime is:
Marbocyl (crushed tablet form, administered in solution via syringe once daily)
Duphapen (injection once daily)
Metacam (0.9ml twice daily)
Bisolvon (twice daily on food)
Corvental (twice daily on food)
Nebulisation with F10, three times daily
Any advice would be very much appreciated. I've had experience of lower respiratory infection with my family of three bunnies, but what I am experiencing with Wallace is very different.
