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Using Zantac to treat side effects of Baytril?

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Roo has been given Baytril to try and treat a cataract, which may be age related but doesn't look like an age related cataract, so the vet is treating as an infection to see if it responds.

The side effects of the Baytril seem to be some sort of eating discomfort. She is eating all fresh foods fine, and also hay. But not eating pellets. She isn't pressing her belly to the floor or showing any other signs of gut pain.
She is pooing fine.

She has not been prescribed Zantac but I was wondering if it can be used to treat discomfort in the stomach from the baytril which might be causing her to not eat pellets.

We are going back to the vet on Tuesday regarding the eye.

She is also on Metacam and Tramadol for arthritis.
 
Stator said:
Roo has been given Baytril to try and treat a cataract, which may be age related but doesn't look like an age related cataract, so the vet is treating as an infection to see if it responds.

The side effects of the Baytril seem to be some sort of eating discomfort. She is eating all fresh foods fine, and also hay. But not eating pellets. She isn't pressing her belly to the floor or showing any other signs of gut pain.
She is pooing fine.

She has not been prescribed Zantac but I was wondering if it can be used to treat discomfort in the stomach from the baytril which might be causing her to not eat pellets.

We are going back to the vet on Tuesday regarding the eye.

She is also on Metacam and Tramadol for arthritis.
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Has the vet not given topical eye drops for the possible infection? I would think that's a first line of treatment rather than systemic Baytril but then I'm not a vet ...

I haven't ever given Zantac alongside Baytril, as it's not been necessary. Some people give Avipro probtiotics, but there's no evidence they do any good.

I have found that Tramadol upset the stomach sometimes though, and I always had to give Zantac before a dose of that.
 
No eye drops. There's no discharge around the eye or anything, not that I know anything about eye infections.

I will be seeing one of the rabbit vets on Tuesday, although I suspect it's going to be chalked down to age related.
 
Stator said:
No eye drops. There's no discharge around the eye or anything, not that I know anything about eye infections.

I will be seeing one of the rabbit vets on Tuesday, although I suspect it's going to be chalked down to age related.
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I know of no 'normal' meds that help cataracts.
I usually go and have one visit with an ophthalmologist, despite the cost :shock: and then at least I know what I'm dealing with.

If the vet suspected eye infection then eye drops would have been more suitable, I would have thought.

Good luck with the rabbit vet. I think that's a good idea.
 
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