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Post by padfootandsiri on Feb 25, 2020 15:48:22 GMT -8
Hi there,
My 2 and a half year old female gerbil has recently been showing signs of a respiratory infection - slight clicking noises, behavioural changes for a while, red mucus on her nose. However these symptoms weren’t too noticeable and if I had been a first time owner I probably wouldn’t have suspected anything was wrong. But I took her to the vets last week and he confirmed she had an infection and prescribed 0.03ml of 2.5% Baytril every day for 3 weeks (he said 3 weeks as apparently her chest was quite bad). He told me to come back after a week if there was no signs of improvement.
It’s now been a week and she seems worse, when she wakes up she is sneezing and clicking for about 15 minutes & her nose becomes covered in mucus. I will be contacting the vets again but I was wondering what else I could do to help her, is there a better medication?
She’s eating and drinking as normal, no weight loss, she is asleep a lot but she has always been like that for about a year. She had a nose infection before I adopted her and another infection that cleared up by itself about 2 years ago so she seems to be prone to it.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated, I feel like I should’ve taken her to the vets earlier but her symptoms were not very noticeable at all! I’m praying she pulls through. Thank you
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Post by gerbilmom2018 on Feb 26, 2020 8:45:47 GMT -8
I had a hamster that was especially prone to respiratory infections. It helped him to keep a small humidifier going just above his cage. Seemed to break it up a little quicker.
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