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Help.. very ill rabbit. :(

C

cassie

New Kit
hi, over easter one of my rabbit had a large abcess come up over a few days on the side of her face.. took her to the vets and she had an op to remove it, but as a large amount of the abcess was behind her eye they couldent remove it.. they have left the wound open so the absess can dran having to keep it open and washing it in hibi-scrub twice a day. she is also on baytril and eye drops for the swollen eye.. she been on this treatment for about 3 weeks, the vet did say to me that they do take a long time to get rid of and are very hard to treat,... im not getting much out of the absess anymore.. but there is no sign of the swelling behind her eye going... from my rabbit point of view she is a very good patient and will let me clean the absess. but starting to wonder weither it fair on her anymore she just doesen't shime happy anymore :cry: and tends to spend most of the day huddled in a corner.. i did relise the other day that her frount teeth are a lil long and starting to grow sideways.. so could this be one of the reason she is so down not just the absess... she is eating.. but somethings like big pieces of veg she has trouble getting hold of.

any help you guys can give me would be greatly appreciated. thanks!!
 
Sorry, have no real experience of abcesses, but i hope you get some answers soon. Sending lots of snuggles to your bun.
 
she is surely in pain from her overgrown front teeth. Take her back to the vet and have all of her teeth looked at. I'm sure someone with experience of bunny dental problems will be along soon with some advice for you. Hope she improves.
 
I would ask your Vet to consider changing the systemic abx from Baytril to an INFECTABLE Penicillin. A culture grown from a swab taken from the abscess cavity may well reveal both aerobic and anaerobic micro-organisms. This would mean Baytril is INEFFECTIVE. Another more appropriate abx might be METRONIDAZOLE. But a culture and sensitivity test from a wound swab would reveal the type of bacteria involved and therefore the best abx to prescribe.

You might want to print this article off to show your Vet

http://jcm.asm.org/cgi/content/full/40/3/1044?view=full&pmid=11880435

Janex
 
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