slowly calming down but still scared
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wendyzskiPepper has pasteurella.
Think of it like having an FIV-positive cat - she can't have contact with other buns (good thing she doesn't want to) or cats, and her immune system is compromised.
She may coast along with only an occasional flare-up needing medication, she could struggle with chronic infections and abscesses needing treatment or surgery, she could end up just a bit less active and on antibiotics for life, or she could just get sicker and die.
If it is caught early, there is an 80% chance of recovery or simple management. I'm hoping that a month of mild sneezing followed by 3 weeks of the wrong medicine and a week of waiting for the culture still makes it "early" enough.
Since the most common antibiotic used for this doesn't seem to be working, we're trying another one (chloramphenicol). I have to be at work stu[idly early tomorrow, so I will have time to pick up the meds in the afternoon. Not sure that I'll be at gaming after all that.
So now we wait and worry.
Think of it like having an FIV-positive cat - she can't have contact with other buns (good thing she doesn't want to) or cats, and her immune system is compromised.
She may coast along with only an occasional flare-up needing medication, she could struggle with chronic infections and abscesses needing treatment or surgery, she could end up just a bit less active and on antibiotics for life, or she could just get sicker and die.
If it is caught early, there is an 80% chance of recovery or simple management. I'm hoping that a month of mild sneezing followed by 3 weeks of the wrong medicine and a week of waiting for the culture still makes it "early" enough.
Since the most common antibiotic used for this doesn't seem to be working, we're trying another one (chloramphenicol). I have to be at work stu[idly early tomorrow, so I will have time to pick up the meds in the afternoon. Not sure that I'll be at gaming after all that.
So now we wait and worry.
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Date: 2008-05-09 01:05 am (UTC)It was once thought that most pet rabbits carried it but showed no symptoms. But some studies show the contrary. Since she was dumped, found by animal control, rescued, and then lived in a shelter for 9-10 months, she could have been exposed at any time and it could have been percolating away until stress or another infection caused it to flare up.
So basically, we dose her with antibiotics and see what happens.