Thanks for all the advice... she even goes stroppy when I give her a choccie drop after the medicine. The positive note here 'tho is that she's starting to resist the medicine and she's regaining her strength!

Two weeks on now and been back to vets today for a check up after Clover's dental and snotty eye and nose saga... she's still on batryl (does that put them off their food?) and the one runny eye has cleared up well - but the other eye has started! It's a totally different eye symptom (before it ran like a regular runny eye - this time it's swollen at the top and runny around the top and far side causing her to half close it).

So the vet said she'd order in some type of penicillin in place of batryl. This will be this coming Monday via injection. Does anyone know much about this?

She's still taking bisolvon and is very picky with food (doesn't eat much unless we prompt her and tends to eat fresh fruit/veg and stuff like toast, weetabix and digestive biscuits). We often have to resort to Recovery food or soft pellets through a syringe as well as water throught a syringe. Poos genrally look fine - round and dry mostly but smaller than before.

We wish we knew what was wrong. Any ideas? Infection from caused by teeth putting her off food 'cos she so bunged up she finds it hard to eat? (she snuffles and snots, coughs and sneezes).

Thanks for all your suggestions - really appreciate it.

jemma

Two and a half weeks on and back to vets today... the final attempt at seeing if she's gonna survive this illness is more antibiotics... this time some kind of penicillin. One a week for the next three weeks ("if she lasts that long" said the vet). So this is the last attempt. Anyone else gone down that path?

Hi Jemma - when she was in for her dental did they flush her tear ducts?Most rabbits with dental issues also have blocked tear ducts associated with it as the upper molars apply pressure to the ducts - this would be painful to and cause her to go off her food - usually bunnies with dental issues pick up very quickly and will resume normal eating habits after having their teeth done.If she has runny eyes and it is now going to the other eye it may be soemthing to consider - this can be done conscious they do not need to be anaesthetised.Are you able to get a 2nd opinion fron another vet - are your vets experinced at treating bunnies- just seems nothing further has been done to get to the bottom of her illness and she seems to never have returned to how she was just before she was ill?

Wishing you warm thoughts & hope he recovers xxx

ADD: yes, I went down that path, with my lop earred rabbit a few times - it was his teeth, that played up and he needed them filed down. After he had them done, he got on well for a week and then he sadly left.

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Thanks - poor bunny Karen.

Dinks - they haven't mentioned tear ducts with this bunny (they did our last one, as one eye was always runny on and off). With Clover, the eye was first noticed a while before the teeth and respiratory prob but just thought it was same as other bun - something that came and went and needed bathing to clear.

Vet said it's difficult to know whether teeth probs onset the respiratory probs or whether they are two separate issues. We are still syringe feeding and she sits and coughs and sneezes alot. She is now sounding wheezy tho and vet said it has moved to her chest. I really hope it's not the start of pneumonia.

I'm returning to vets next Monday for next penicillin... I'll ask bout tear ducts then.

Cheers for support and suggestions - it's so upsetting to see her like this.

jemma

Check what penicillin your vet is using, amoxycillin can be fatal to rabbits, it can cause gastrointestinal upsets.

Back in July I lost Charlie through him having bad teeth, he got an infection in his gum which spread to his lungs and made his jaw crumble so he couldn't eat or even breathe. I was incredibly annoyed at the vets because they didn't see the infection a few days before when he was gassed and having his teeth done they didn't even give him pain killers or antibiotics when they filed his teeth, which led to him having to have the penicillin injections every other day. Only it didn't help him, things just got worse to the point he was screaming in pain and I rushed him to the vets where they stabilised him. He stayed there over night and the next day they said he was stable enough to be anaesthetised to see whats going on and take x-rays. He never woke up from that anaesthetic and I blame the vets. I've now left my job there as I worked for them too and changed to a different vet who specialises in rabbits. If you haven't already I'd speak to a vet who specialises in rabbits. Sorry to be so blunt with the details but I'd hate to stay quiet and someone else suffer the same.

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unfortunatly bad breeding causes many dental problem in rabbits,many of which are reocurring throughout the rabbits life.I never had any of these problems when i used to breed rex rabbits.Many rabbitsb are just thrown together wih no thought,or knowledege of breeding/background
hope your rabbits pulls through.

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Very very true!!!! i am also lucky not to have any problems in my line's.

Hope the little buns continues to fight x

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Hi Jemma, I've only just caught up with this story, really sorry to hear about your bun. I've (touch wood) never had a bun with dental problems before so can't offer any advice I'm afraid but I have recently been nursing a very sick bunny and know how tough it is, I'm sure you're doing all you can and it sounds like your doing a great job. Hope the vet can get to the bottom of it and he pulls through for you! Will be thinking of you

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