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My rabbit have caugh and diarrea. Can somebody help?

2006-10-08 22:27:45 · 2 answers · asked by LaDy_BuG 1 in Pets Other - Pets

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take the rabbit to the vet

2006-10-08 23:40:11 · answer #1 · answered by jacque H 2 · 0 0

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Enteric Diseases: There are several different diseases that fall under this category (enterotoxemia, Tyzzer's disease, coccidiosis, and mucoid enteropathy) The signs in all include severe diarrhea (liquid or jellied feces) and you must call the vet immediately. The treatments for some involve antibiotics but the mortality rates for these are quite high. The best treatment is prevention (same as with diarrhea) which includes feeding a high fiber diet. Along with vet care you may want to provide hay and electrolytes for your rabbit because the diarrhea can cause an electrolyte imbalance & dehydration. You may want to bring in a fecal sample to the vet yearly to check for coccidiosis.

Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) solution. The solution I used follows:

1 cup clean water
2 teaspoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/16 teaspoon salt (take some out of a 1/4 tsp. or use a rounded 1/8 tsp.)

This formula differed from ones I'd previously used by having baking soda in it. But because I had read that the bunny's system is probably more acid when it is sick like this, I thought it might be a good thing to include the soda. One article said that the system would be so acid that using probiotics might be useless since they would die in the high acid environment before they could colonize the colon again.

I began by putting the solution into a clean syringe and feeding her all she would take by mouth. She had two or three of these feedings before bedtime. She stayed in the house with us and we went off to bed hoping she'd be around in the morning. We left her with a dish of ORT solution, a small handful of hay, and a teaspoon of rolled oats. I was very worried about her, but hopeful that I'd be able to do more in the morning.

2006-10-12 11:44:46 · answer #2 · answered by ^crash_&_burn^ 3 · 0 0

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