Toasty123
Warren Scout
Hi all ye bunny lovers :wave:, i'm new here and this is the first thread i'm posting. I have a question about this zantac syrup that the vet prescribed. My nearly 6 year old netherland dwarf bunny (0.93 kg) recently caught the nasty parasite known as e.cuniculi 
. Fortuantly with the help of panacur has almost recovered fully by the looks of it at the moment, which i'm so happy about . Everything was going well until I brought him back to the vet for a checkup and he said he couldn't hear any sounds coming from my bunny's gut (which he checked with the stethoscope). So he prescribed the zantac antacid syrup for gut mobility, 0.15ml three times daily and said to put him on some probiotics to help with the gut as well. Now my question is... Was the vet right to prescribe this medication? as my bunny was still pooping fine before except for the occasional mushy cecotropes I would find every morning in his cage. So as ordered I gave him the zantac 3 times daily for 4 days but then only gave it to him once on the 5th day because I was concerned about the medication causing any harm to his body. I have noticed that some of his droppings are small. I am giving him Fibreplex as well though just have to be giving it to him 3 times as usually i only give it to him twice a day because i forget then am not sure how many hours apart each dose has to be? I brought him back to the vet for a follow up but this time it was with another vet and he asked me if the poop was firm which i said yes too (but really there was no issue with his poo not being firm in the first place). The vet checked to see if his gut was moving and to my relief it was, then he asked me if there was any more of the zantac left and then advised me to give it to him twice daily till it finished (there is around 4 days worth of it left i think). At this moment of time I'm just a bit paranoid and concerned about giving him zantac if he really doesn't need it in the first place. I also read on one of these threads that 'zantac reduces acidity of the stomach and usually when a bunny's GI is in distress it needs to be made more acidic, not less'. It's been 2 days since i haven't given him any and his poops still look firm just seen some cecotropes in his cage this morning that he hasn't eaten. Other than that he has been still eating his pellets and hay and drinking water as normal just today i've noticed he's produced more cecotropes than normal. (He cant eat them straight from his behind anymore due to his arthritis which he is on metacam (dog) for long term. He's also been drinking alot of water and urinating alot especially since he got caught e.cuniculi, but it also could be because he has spurs in his mouth which I recntly found out from the vet as well, but he told me if he were to stop eating or lose weight then to consider it as there is a risk involved with putting rabbits under anesthesia unfortuantly , so that is my last resort for now, as he has just gotten so much better and so I can't think of the thought of losing him now . Anyway sorry kind of got off topic there, but yes referring back to my initial question and if you made it to the end of this very lenghty post (sorry in advance :shock do you think I should still give him the zantac & will there be any harm giving it to him again as I have not given it for 2 days now? Any advice would be appreciated thank you .
. Fortuantly with the help of panacur has almost recovered fully by the looks of it at the moment, which i'm so happy about . Everything was going well until I brought him back to the vet for a checkup and he said he couldn't hear any sounds coming from my bunny's gut (which he checked with the stethoscope). So he prescribed the zantac antacid syrup for gut mobility, 0.15ml three times daily and said to put him on some probiotics to help with the gut as well. Now my question is... Was the vet right to prescribe this medication? as my bunny was still pooping fine before except for the occasional mushy cecotropes I would find every morning in his cage. So as ordered I gave him the zantac 3 times daily for 4 days but then only gave it to him once on the 5th day because I was concerned about the medication causing any harm to his body. I have noticed that some of his droppings are small. I am giving him Fibreplex as well though just have to be giving it to him 3 times as usually i only give it to him twice a day because i forget then am not sure how many hours apart each dose has to be? I brought him back to the vet for a follow up but this time it was with another vet and he asked me if the poop was firm which i said yes too (but really there was no issue with his poo not being firm in the first place). The vet checked to see if his gut was moving and to my relief it was, then he asked me if there was any more of the zantac left and then advised me to give it to him twice daily till it finished (there is around 4 days worth of it left i think). At this moment of time I'm just a bit paranoid and concerned about giving him zantac if he really doesn't need it in the first place. I also read on one of these threads that 'zantac reduces acidity of the stomach and usually when a bunny's GI is in distress it needs to be made more acidic, not less'. It's been 2 days since i haven't given him any and his poops still look firm just seen some cecotropes in his cage this morning that he hasn't eaten. Other than that he has been still eating his pellets and hay and drinking water as normal just today i've noticed he's produced more cecotropes than normal. (He cant eat them straight from his behind anymore due to his arthritis which he is on metacam (dog) for long term. He's also been drinking alot of water and urinating alot especially since he got caught e.cuniculi, but it also could be because he has spurs in his mouth which I recntly found out from the vet as well, but he told me if he were to stop eating or lose weight then to consider it as there is a risk involved with putting rabbits under anesthesia unfortuantly , so that is my last resort for now, as he has just gotten so much better and so I can't think of the thought of losing him now . Anyway sorry kind of got off topic there, but yes referring back to my initial question and if you made it to the end of this very lenghty post (sorry in advance :shock do you think I should still give him the zantac & will there be any harm giving it to him again as I have not given it for 2 days now? Any advice would be appreciated thank you .
