#baytril

[hannahoort]

Such a messy mouth after trying to spit it his medicine 😅 any tips on how to stop piggies from spitting out their medicine gladly appreciated! #Guineapig #guineapigs #guineapigsofinstagram #guineapigsofig #guineapigsof_ig #nofilter #shinebrightlikemica #mica #micamoo #baytril https://www.instagram.com/p/ByfHcYGgBiB/?igshid=1hv5i5snprlr4

[splendid-splendens]

He did not appreciate the meds, but he was very good anyway 💞🦎

[littlehobbits]

Do any of you buy your own antibiotics online and weigh/dose your rats yourself? The vet is so expensive and my boys are pretty much all chronic URI sufferers. There seems to be at least 2 flare ups per month, sometimes more. They all flared up when Bilbo passed as well :/

Merry is currently congested and his breathing is all crackly. I am very protective of him especially because he got sick two weeks into owning him, and I thought I was going to lose him. I'm probably calling the vet and scheduling an appt ASAP for him but I just wanted to know if any of you bought your own meds for these types of situations.

[easyvetsupplies]

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[easyvetsupplies]

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[easyvetsupplies]

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[thlpp]

Let me tell ya, Baytril sucks for the patient. 

In the picture above you see Sunny after eating a r4t spiked with a dose of the drug. Look at that swelling in his throat! I’m so glad we’re done with this one.

When I see people on forums and such say that “a shot of Baytril” is going to fix an RI or stomatitis (aka “mouth rot”) in a snake, it just gives me the shivers.

For one, a single shot of an antibiotic is not going to fix anything. Much worse, it’s likely to contribute to breeding of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria; that’s why when a doctor prescribes you two weeks worth of antibiotics, you have to take them all to the end, even if you start feeling better after a couple of days. Resistant bugs are terrible, and right now, Sunny has such an infection. We’ve beaten all others (he had a whole zoo of bacteria growing), but at this point we have basically exhausted all available treatment options and have to hope for the best.

Further, Baytril is not a cure-all. Many disease-causing bacteria are not even sensitive to it, i.e. it’s not going to help at all. Administering it willy-nilly without running a culture first, is only going to stress the animal and can cause injury.

You see, Baytril is extremely irritating to whatever it touches. It causes swelling, inflammation, and potential scarring. If administered improperly, it can cause injury to the animal’s skin or muscle if injected, or esophagus and stomach, if given orally.

In my mind, Baytril is the treatment of last resort. When you’re out of options, you do what it takes, but I would not dream of using it “prophylactically” without a vet helping me figure out the dosage, dilution, duration of treatment, and frequency.

When we were faced with the need to use it to treat Sunny’s persistent infection, we were picking between subcutaneous and oral administration. Subcutaneous injection would require the dose to be diluted in 60 ml (that’s 2 fl oz) of reptile fluids and injected slowly. The weak dilution was necessary to prevent tissue damage at injection site.

Our other option, and the one we ultimately chose, was to inject the drug into food items and let Sunny take it that way. After about ten days, he was swollen like that and drooling from the irritation in his upper GI tract. We had 20 doses, so the last week or so, my heart was breaking when I gave him the treatment, because it caused him so much discomfort. But we had to do it, because not treating him would result in more suffering.

Now about 10 days past his last dose, he’s fully recovered from the drug, and hopefully done with the infection we were treating him for.

Still, another one remains: Stenotrophomonas maltophilla, an antibiotic-resistant strain of it, that we literally don’t have a means to treat. All we can do is keep him warm and well-hydrated to support his immune system as it fights the infection. And hoping that he can actually beat it. Oh, and treating him as an ongoing bio-hazard, as to avoid contracting the infection ourselves or passing it on to our other pets.

These super-bugs are a direct result of humans misusing antibiotics: farm industry massively misusing them to treat their animals en masse, patients taking them when not needed (for flu, which is a virus and not treatable by antibiotics), not taking the full prescribed course, or disposing of them improperly, like flushing them down the toilet.

So the moral of this post is, Don’t be a part of the problem. Whether it’s for yourself or for your pet, please use antibiotics responsibly, and always consult a medical professional before you do.

[k-a-i-d-a-blog]

Has any got any advice on how to give Baytril to an EXTREMELY stubborn small animal?