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Hiro not well again

Jack's-Jane said:
It's just that cysitis can cause a Bunny pain and they can hold there wee (as it stings to wee)/ wee in inappropriate places. Just wandering if he may have a bit of a UTI.
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I've wondered this myself but would it come and go the way that it is doing? Inbetween these incidents he is weeing fine.
He's eating again now btw :) He's just tucked into some herbs.
 
roxyroller88 said:
I've wondered this myself but would it come and go the way that it is doing? Inbetween these incidents he is weeing fine.
He's eating again now btw :) He's just tucked into some herbs.
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With a low grade infection symptoms can be sporadic. But it may not be that at all, I am only speculating. If you wanted to read some info about Cystitis in Rabbits there are this link:

http://wildpro.twycrosszoo.org/S/00dis/Miscellaneous/Cystitis_Ele.htm

But as I have said, his urinary tract may not be the problem at all. Glad to hear he's eating now xx
 
roxyroller88 said:
I think that he's quite open minded really to what it could be really. He's not Hiro's usual vet because he works at a different branch but he went through all of his notes and looked at his recent ct results too to see if anything stood out.
What would cause bladder issues? It's a bit odd really. He seems to do one big, random wee in his tunnel where he sleeps and then nothing else. He's isn't straining or weeing more than usual etc.
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Surely the vet would've considered bladder issues if you described a problem with weeing?

The bladder would be tender .... and you were not given antibiotics?
 
Yeah I would've thought so. He has seen 3 different vets though when this has happened and they have all felt around when we've mentioned the random wee. All of them have said that they don't think it's a urine infection. He did have a course of Baytril the first time it happened though.
 
roxyroller88 said:
Yeah I would've thought so. He has seen 3 different vets though when this has happened and they have all felt around when we've mentioned the random wee. All of them have said that they don't think it's a urine infection. He did have a course of Baytril the first time it happened though.
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Did that course of Baytril help?
 
I don't know really because he doesn't have any symptoms the rest of the time. He just goes quiet, does a random wee in his tunnel and then he hides and looks really uncomfortable, his head shakes too, probably from him breathing faster. You can see his little ears vibrating. Once he's had the pain relief and the gut meds he picks up within a few hours and you wouldn't think that anything was wrong at all. We gave him a 10 day course of Baytril but I couldn't tell you if it helped because he seemed fine after the first day!
 
roxyroller88 said:
I don't know really because he doesn't have any symptoms the rest of the time. He just goes quiet, does a random wee in his tunnel and then he hides and looks really uncomfortable, his head shakes too, probably from him breathing faster. You can see his little ears vibrating. Once he's had the pain relief and the gut meds he picks up within a few hours and you wouldn't think that anything was wrong at all. We gave him a 10 day course of Baytril but I couldn't tell you if it helped because he seemed fine after the first day!
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Perhaps the bladder issue is a red herring?

You're very vigilant, so I'm sure nothing will pass you without further inspection.

Vibes for Hiro x
 
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