are you giving the colloidal siver oraly as well?
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Staphylococcus Aureus.Barlie has a new abscess.Post52
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are you giving the colloidal siver oraly as well?
jackiestone
Warren Veteran
I really really hope that your buns get better,thinking of you 
No I'm not as i only spotted it today I will start giving it to Honey tomorrow
Thank you all for your kind words.Im really heart broken I thought it was all behind us.Its devestating when you try your hardest in life to help your animals and Its one of those illnesses that however hard you try you just cant get to the bottom of.I love all my animals dearly and I feel totally helpless
Jack's-Jane
Wise Old Thumper
Thank you all for your kind words.Im really heart broken I thought it was all behind us.Its devestating when you try your hardest in life to help your animals and Its one of those illnesses that however hard you try you just cant get to the bottom of.I love all my animals dearly and I feel totally helpless
I hope Jane will agree to treat off-licence Sarah and that she'll consider the abx we discussed.
I know you take great care of your Buns and fate has dealt you a cruel blow
Janex
Thank you so much Jane for your help once again.I dont know how I can ever repay you for the help that you have given me.I really hope that Jane will agree to the abx you have suggested as we are running out of options.Bugsy is licking his right paw now but I cant see anything Yet.
Jack's-Jane
Wise Old Thumper
I have just got back from the vets with Honey.She said that it looks like a corn on Honeys toe due to pressure as the toe next to it that was amputated last year.I pointed out this is what it looked like last year at the start of it.Thanks to a link posted by Jacks Jane I have printed off some pages with an antibiotic that looks like it might kill this bacteria and cure Honey.My vet is going to look over them tonight and try and get the antibiotics.She may have to get a license as they are for MRSA.fingers crossed we get a cure this time.THANK YOU SO SO MUCH JACKS JANE
Lauralou
Warren Veteran
sending plenty of vibes and that these antibiotics work xx
Hello everyone just thought Id give you an update I still haven't heard from the vets.I was inspecting Honeys toe earlier and while feeling the lump It burst so we are now definitely dealing with an abscess.I then turned Willow over and on his back paw mid way between his hocks and toes there is a five pence size red lump.I'm trying to kid myself at the moment that its a hock sore but as he is over three and never suffered from a hock sore before and its no where near his hock who am I trying to kid.I don't know what else to say I'm feeling pretty devastated at the mo and I'm finding it very hard to stay positive and see light at the end of the tunnel.
Jack's-Jane
Wise Old Thumper
Oh good grief I am sorry
I wonder if your Vet could contact Bristol Rabbit Clinic to obtain their input on where to go from here
http://www.vetschool.bris.ac.uk/langford/cas/rabbitclinic/
Janex
Jane i have already been there and seen all the buuny vets apart from Sharon Redrobe.Ive just spoken to my vet and she wont get me the drugs you suggested as they are specifically for MRSA and as mine carry the staff bacteria and no MRSA has been found its not going to happen .Bugsys cultures show he has the staph bacteria in both ears and E coli in the left ear.Ive been offered Baytril or ceporex.Im sorry I am crying my eyes out my bunnies have a death sentence.When Barlies foot was eaten away and no staph antibiotics helped wouldnt you call that MRSA.I just dont know what else I can do I even tried to speak to Frances Harcourt-Brown and she wont speak to me because Im not a vet.
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That was very charming of her :?
I just don't know what I would do in your situation either.
What about contacting the royal college directly and seeking out a specialist? I'm assuming you will have already done this by the sounds of it.
I have honestly tried everywhere.when I went to Langford,Bristol the main vet I was seeing was Sandra Wenger.she has left there now.When i took Barlie she had been on antibiotics for some time so they didn't pick up the staph bacteria they were more concerned about the Eosinophils found on her paw.When i tried to point out that these cells are always found in a traumatic wound and they needed to look at a cure for the staph related problem I was ignored.They were going down the theory of an autoimmune condition found in cats.I pointed out if this was the case why was it spreading from rabbit to rabbit.I have spoken to Anne Mitchel from rabbit welfare in the hope someone else had contacted her with this problem again no joy.I have emailed,written and phoned anyone I can with bunny knowledge for an answer.I then wrote a post on RU hoping someone else has had the same prob.I have been on another rabbit forum and a woman said she had a conti with the same prob and the answer she got was that there was no cure and put the rabbit to sleep because it would just spread to all her other bunnies she had her bunny PTS.I don't want to put my bunnies to sleep but I know its unrealistic for them to have their legs cut off as they are so big.Barlies remaining front paw is down to the skin already and I know if it starts bleeding and infection is introduced she will have to be PTS.I really haven't got a clue were to go from here I cant be the only person who has had this problem and not given up.I wish my dad was still alive because he was one of those vets that if posed with a condition he had never seen before he would do his utmost to find a cure.
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