Chevalrose
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I took him to the eVet and apparently his throat was swollen up. She suggested that we put him down :'(. RIP my little one.
Normal?
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jorats
Loving rats since 2002.
I'm so sorry... :sad3:
SkyHiRattiDream
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Omigod. . .
I'm so sorry. . .
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I'm so sorry. . .
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Fidget
Senior Member
ChevalRose - I'm so very very sorry for your loss of your Gus.
I was going to ask here with benefit of the video if a heart problem could cause that or not? And found your babe was gone. It won't help your boy now and seems wrong to ask now, but maybe it can help someone and their kid in future?
So forgive me, do you mind if I ask here if we can see differences between heart problems & respiratory problems by the video?
Your Gus was well-loved by you here and has gone on to await you in a place where nobody has to go to work and no cages need cleaning. No doubt he'll leave his adventures to welcome you one day as you did him here. I'm so sorry.
I was going to ask here with benefit of the video if a heart problem could cause that or not? And found your babe was gone. It won't help your boy now and seems wrong to ask now, but maybe it can help someone and their kid in future?
So forgive me, do you mind if I ask here if we can see differences between heart problems & respiratory problems by the video?
Your Gus was well-loved by you here and has gone on to await you in a place where nobody has to go to work and no cages need cleaning. No doubt he'll leave his adventures to welcome you one day as you did him here. I'm so sorry.
jorats
Loving rats since 2002.
Back when we started to have postmortems done on our rats, they were dying exactly in that way as in the video. All posts revealed pulmonary abscesses, so huge there was barely any lung left. Hearts look healthy and normal. But that's not to say that it can't happen, it just never did with ours.
Fidget
Senior Member
Isn't 'pulmonary' to do with the heart and not the lungs tho?
minnow
Well-Known Member
Pulmonary = relating to the lungs
Cardiac = relating to the heart
Darned confusing medical terminology...
Cardiac = relating to the heart
Darned confusing medical terminology...
Moon
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LA
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I'm so sorry, I tried to help you in chat Sat but I think you had issues with it.
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Moon
Well-Known Member
I'm so sorry.... 
Fidget
Senior Member
Boy, I got that terminology wrong! Still, I have trouble knowing what is indicative of heart problems and what is just respiratory problems in the kids. I'm hoping to learn clues to tell the difference.
SQ
Senior Member - Vegan for the animals
So very very sorry for your loss ...
We are seeing both ... rats with hugely enlarged hearts and badly damanged lungs so it is difficult to say which occurred first ... we try to treat both.
If rats with respir problems to not get better with various combos of respir. meds, then we try heart meds. So far all rats in those circumstances have responded to heart meds. If they respond to heart meds, then we try to treat both heart and lungs.
But no, you can't tell just from the breathing if it is the heart or the lungs that is the main problem.
We are seeing both ... rats with hugely enlarged hearts and badly damanged lungs so it is difficult to say which occurred first ... we try to treat both.
If rats with respir problems to not get better with various combos of respir. meds, then we try heart meds. So far all rats in those circumstances have responded to heart meds. If they respond to heart meds, then we try to treat both heart and lungs.
But no, you can't tell just from the breathing if it is the heart or the lungs that is the main problem.
