Scrappy's Little Helper
Mama Doe
Hi all
I'm just looking for advice from people with experience of URTIs.
I mentioned this in another thread in Chat, but last Friday Fudgie suddenly began sneezing a lot. I took her to the vet on Monday. There is no discharge or crusting on her chest or paws, she is bright and eating and pooping well. Vet said it could be an allergy, URTI or something stuck up her nose. She decided to initially treat it as a URTI and prescribed a week long course of baytril to start off and to be continued if it appears to be working. The vet said I should expect to see some improvement after 5 days. If not, the next step is to put her under sedation for a more thorough investigation of what's going on.
She's had 6 doses of baytril and is still sneezing an awful lot and occassionally makes quacking sounds. I don't think there's really been much improvement at all. I know you need to give antibiotics time to work, but would it be reasonable to assume at this stage that the baytril isn't working?
The next step therefore would be to put her under sedation. I have to admit I'm very anxious about having her sedated if her respiratory tract is potentially compromised. Yet another part of me feels it's better to do it sooner rather than later while she is still well in herself and it would mean getting to the bottom of it quicker.
Or do we stay on the antibiotic route for now? When Scrappy had a nasty eye infection, we wasted so much time on antibiotics that did nothing to help. It was only the penicillin that really dealt with it. Fudgie has a follow up appointment on Tuesday and I'm wondering if I should start pushing for heavy duty antibiotics, I.e the penicillin. Or do we just need to persevere with the baytril? I'm going to continue with it until the appointment, by which time she will have been on an 8 day course so I'm hoping that by then I'll be more sure if it's having an effect.
I should add that there is still no sign of any discharge, although my understanding is that that in itself doesn't mean there is no infection. I also appreciate that an allergy can't be ruled out.
Any advice would be very much appreciated. I know I need to advocate for her strongly but at the moment I feel paralysed by indecision on how best to do that.
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I'm just looking for advice from people with experience of URTIs.
I mentioned this in another thread in Chat, but last Friday Fudgie suddenly began sneezing a lot. I took her to the vet on Monday. There is no discharge or crusting on her chest or paws, she is bright and eating and pooping well. Vet said it could be an allergy, URTI or something stuck up her nose. She decided to initially treat it as a URTI and prescribed a week long course of baytril to start off and to be continued if it appears to be working. The vet said I should expect to see some improvement after 5 days. If not, the next step is to put her under sedation for a more thorough investigation of what's going on.
She's had 6 doses of baytril and is still sneezing an awful lot and occassionally makes quacking sounds. I don't think there's really been much improvement at all. I know you need to give antibiotics time to work, but would it be reasonable to assume at this stage that the baytril isn't working?
The next step therefore would be to put her under sedation. I have to admit I'm very anxious about having her sedated if her respiratory tract is potentially compromised. Yet another part of me feels it's better to do it sooner rather than later while she is still well in herself and it would mean getting to the bottom of it quicker.
Or do we stay on the antibiotic route for now? When Scrappy had a nasty eye infection, we wasted so much time on antibiotics that did nothing to help. It was only the penicillin that really dealt with it. Fudgie has a follow up appointment on Tuesday and I'm wondering if I should start pushing for heavy duty antibiotics, I.e the penicillin. Or do we just need to persevere with the baytril? I'm going to continue with it until the appointment, by which time she will have been on an 8 day course so I'm hoping that by then I'll be more sure if it's having an effect.
I should add that there is still no sign of any discharge, although my understanding is that that in itself doesn't mean there is no infection. I also appreciate that an allergy can't be ruled out.
Any advice would be very much appreciated. I know I need to advocate for her strongly but at the moment I feel paralysed by indecision on how best to do that.
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I feel for you. Its horrible knowing you need to advocate but not sure of the direction. My feelings are erring towards dental & I know that's only because the dry sneezing & quacking were what first alerted me to Boo being a dental bun. But I thankfully have limited experience of URTI's - I don't know but surely there would be signs of infection? Allergies I guess are more difficult as the possibilities are 1) exposure to new allergen 2) new issue with existing allergen which could cover anything & everything. I wonder if there is a bunny equivalent to piriton so you could rule out the allergy thing.
