Loud sneezes?

[MiniC]

I don't know how normal this is, but Billy keeps sneezing really loudly. Sometimes it's a bit like a polite quiet person's "atchoo", today it was a bit more like a cat clearing a hairball.

I notice it about once a fortnight, so it's not often. Anything I google, just talks about frequent sneezing, not loud sneezing.

He does have a blocked tear duct, but my rabbit savvy vet didn't want to put him through the stress of any procedures to fix that (he's 9 and a half now). The tear duct thing has been around for a year, and loud sneezing is pretty recent.

 

[InspectorMorse]

After the loud sneezes is there any discharge. Sometimes a lump of gunk from a blocked nasolacrimal duct can eventually drain through and gets sneezed out as a blob of snot Once cleared the sneezing stops til the same thing happens again a few weeks later.

 

[MiniC]

I don't see discharge, but I think his eye can look a little wetter afterwards? That sounds like it'd explain it though.

He's due his vaccines in a few weeks, so I was going to mention it when he's in, do you think it'd need attention any sooner?

 

[InspectorMorse]

I don't see discharge, but I think his eye can look a little wetter afterwards? That sounds like it'd explain it though.

He's due his vaccines in a few weeks, so I was going to mention it when he's in, do you think it'd need attention any sooner?

If it only happens occasionally and he is fine within himself then probably not. I would get the Vet to give him a thorough examination before vaccinating him, if he were to be harbouring any type of bacterial infection then a vaccination could tip the balance and allow any infection to really take hold. I would weigh him a couple of times a week as unexplained weight loss is usually a red flag for health problems. Three consecutive losses prompts me to call in my Vet