Jenk
Well-Known Member
I would like to know how other bun-savvy caretakers would handle this situation.
My Emma has had three vet visits for her current stasis. She was hospitalized half the day last Monday (to get injectable Reglan and Metacam--and to raise her body temp.). She also got injectable Reglan and Metacam at the vet's on Tues. morning.
She was hospitalized early Wed. until Fri. afternoon. When I brought her home, I saw she'd lost weight, and her fecals had become more small and dry.
I took her to an exotics-only vet Sat. morning. Based on Emma's alertness and slight gut sounds, he advised that I treat her at home. Her temp. was registered at 97-deg. F, so I've been putting her on a heating pad off/ on, as time allows, since then.
Since Sat. morning, Emma's fecal production became more scant and tiny. (Her latest fecals are 1/8" in dia.; they're normally 2.5 times that size.) She's eating little hay but is still eating her greens.
I'm panicked, but the exotics-only vet thinks I should give Emma a few more days' on the current regimen (oral motility drugs, sub-Qs, Metacam, and probiotic). He thinks Emma wasn't fed enough Critical Care when last hospitalized and believes her gut needs more time to start passing out what's recently been put into it. But my primary vet says Emma had a "decent amount" of food in her stomach, per x-rays taken Wed.
I syringed her 50 mL's of Critical Care between 4/11 and 4/12; she received much fewer mL's of it when hosptalized; and I've fed her 10 mL's on 4/15 and 35 mL's on both 4/16 and 4/17. I'm a bit freaked because she's received all this food and isn't passing nearly enough fecals. I'm worried that the pressure against her gut wall will become too much.
Thank you,
Jenk
NOTE: I found a small, intact cluster of cecals on Emma's pen floor; she ate them from my fingers. I've never before seen a sign of her cecals prior to today. Not sure if that's a bad or an okay sign. :confused2:
My Emma has had three vet visits for her current stasis. She was hospitalized half the day last Monday (to get injectable Reglan and Metacam--and to raise her body temp.). She also got injectable Reglan and Metacam at the vet's on Tues. morning.
She was hospitalized early Wed. until Fri. afternoon. When I brought her home, I saw she'd lost weight, and her fecals had become more small and dry.
I took her to an exotics-only vet Sat. morning. Based on Emma's alertness and slight gut sounds, he advised that I treat her at home. Her temp. was registered at 97-deg. F, so I've been putting her on a heating pad off/ on, as time allows, since then.
Since Sat. morning, Emma's fecal production became more scant and tiny. (Her latest fecals are 1/8" in dia.; they're normally 2.5 times that size.) She's eating little hay but is still eating her greens.
I'm panicked, but the exotics-only vet thinks I should give Emma a few more days' on the current regimen (oral motility drugs, sub-Qs, Metacam, and probiotic). He thinks Emma wasn't fed enough Critical Care when last hospitalized and believes her gut needs more time to start passing out what's recently been put into it. But my primary vet says Emma had a "decent amount" of food in her stomach, per x-rays taken Wed.
I syringed her 50 mL's of Critical Care between 4/11 and 4/12; she received much fewer mL's of it when hosptalized; and I've fed her 10 mL's on 4/15 and 35 mL's on both 4/16 and 4/17. I'm a bit freaked because she's received all this food and isn't passing nearly enough fecals. I'm worried that the pressure against her gut wall will become too much.
Thank you,
Jenk
NOTE: I found a small, intact cluster of cecals on Emma's pen floor; she ate them from my fingers. I've never before seen a sign of her cecals prior to today. Not sure if that's a bad or an okay sign. :confused2:
