HELP! What's wrong with baby?!?
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I saw her holding food in her paws and eating. She seems to be drinking ok. She just kinda falls over when eating. Always to the left. When I rubbed her left ear, she leaned into my finger. When I rubbed her right ear, she didn't seem to notice. She's gripping well with all of her paws, and if I pick her up, she uses her tail to try to balance. I also have metacam and methylprednisone. Just need to know how to mix, and dosage. Metacam is mixed. Just need dose.
lilspaz68
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Sounds like inner ear infection, what antibiotics do you have on hand? My preference would be azithromycin at her age.
I have one 250mg azithromycin left, but can POSSIBLY get more, and I have quite a few ciprofloxacin, also lots of amoxicillin, and a few clavamox I believe. I also have metacam and methylprednisone.
Her weight is 226grams
Her weight is 226grams
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lilspaz68
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use the zithro and the pred (for only 5 days)
Mix the 250 mg zithro tablet with 2 ml of water til dissolved then add 3 ml of sweet syrup.
Her dose would be 0.09 ml once a day for 3 weeks.
What concentration is your pred?
Mix the 250 mg zithro tablet with 2 ml of water til dissolved then add 3 ml of sweet syrup.
Her dose would be 0.09 ml once a day for 3 weeks.
What concentration is your pred?
lilspaz68
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is the pred 4 mg/ml or 4 mg tablets? For inner ear pred is much better.
lilspaz68
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OK use 2 tablets, add 1 ml of water til dissolved then add then add 3 ml of syrup (or 2 and 2 ml's) giving you 2 mg/ml pred solution. Give her 0.09 ml once a day (same dose as Zithro). Only give the pred for 5 days then stop. That should help with the inflammation and dizziness until the antibiotics kick in and start curing the active infection. Give Baby a low ceiling box as this will help her orient up from down and give her comfort.
Gave her her first dose of azithromycin a little bit ago. I've never dealt with ear infections. When should I see improvement, and when should I start to worry? She's already trying to play, and it hasn't been long. She wasn't before. She's even trying to climb. So much so, I'm worried I may need to lower hammocks, and shelves for a bit. She's stubborn! LOL
Thank you so much for your help! She's got tons of low boxes (a mini coke box, gloves box, space pod, and a long sleeve like hammock that she seems to favor right now). I'm just worried about her trying to climb. When she gets turned around, she rolls.
lilspaz68
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rolling and running backwards aren't good signs, its usually a pretty severe infection. The prednisone should help within a day. Its good stuff for inflammation causing that dizziness and tilt. If she worsens in 3-4 days put her on the enrofloxacin right away along with the zithro.
LatteTheRat
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Ouch it seems pretty severe...have you talked to a vet yet? If not you should. Hope Baby gets better soon!
lilspaz68
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She's on the pred now as well? At least she's going forward and not backwards. The tilt is causing the circling.
Yes she's on the prednisone as well. I gave it about 2 hours, maybe 3 after the antibiotics. I made the antibiotics and gave them as soon as you commented about how to make them. She never really went backwards, but when she'd get stuck and try to go up, like in the video, she'd roll over. She sort of did it in the video.
I just got home and checked on baby. She's made a pretty big improvement since last night. She's almost walking normal again, and only circled once, and I'm not sure it wasn't because I pointed her in the opposite direction than she wanted to go. She's even trying to play again (she was a SUPER playful rat). I can't wait to see how she does after her next dose of meds. She's still a little bit tilty though. I guess time will tell if that changes....
