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Paracetamol in bunnies

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Wise Old Thumper
Anyone used it? Have any thoughts on it?

I have an end of life bunny with a painful tumour. I’m not convinced that Metacam and Tramadol are giving him the relief I want and my vet said they have discovered paracetamol can be used in rabbits now.

Anyone got any experience?
 
I would use it in an end of life situation to make the rabbit more comfortable. My dog has had it under direction of his vet
 
I vaguely recall Frances Harcourt-Brown opening a discussion about it on her Facebook page ages ago. There was talk about using Calpol in an emergency situation when it wasn't possible to get to the vets. I also seem to remember Molly Varga joining the discussion with positive comments about its use in rabbits. Sorry that I can't remember better details.

Edit to add, I found the post by searching for "rabbits Calpol" on Facebook, it was in 2017.


Further addition:

This is a quote I lifted from the above discussion from three years ago.

Molly Varga: "I'm starting to use paracetamol both orally and IV in hospital. Seems to be well tolerated."
 
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Bunny Buddy said:
I vaguely recall Frances Harcourt-Brown opening a discussion about it on her Facebook page ages ago. There was talk about using Calpol in an emergency situation when it wasn't possible to get to the vets. I also seem to remember Molly Varga joining the discussion with positive comments about its use in rabbits. Sorry that I can't remember better details.

Edit to add, I found the post by searching for "rabbits Calpol" on Facebook, it was in 2017.


Further addition:

This is a quote I lifted from the above discussion from three years ago.

Molly Varga: "I'm starting to use paracetamol both orally and IV in hospital. Seems to be well tolerated."
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Interesting xx
 
InspectorMorse said:
Interesting xx
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When I looked back on that, I was actually the discussion I mentioned to you on FB where Frances had to tell people off for bickering! Their comments are deleted now.

I don't know how to post a link to the discussion but if you search "Calpol rabbits" then click the "posts" option hopefully it will bring it up.
 
Bunny Buddy said:
When I looked back on that, I was actually the discussion I mentioned to you on FB where Frances had to tell people off for bickering! Their comments are deleted now.

I don't know how to post a link to the discussion but if you search "Calpol rabbits" then click the "posts" option hopefully it will bring it up.
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I'll have a go. If you never see me on FB again you'll know something went wrong :lol:
 
Despite this all being very interesting, sadly it won’t be needed. Bunny was PTS last night.
 
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