slowly calming down but still scared

[wendyzski]

Pepper 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.

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[caitriona27.livejournal.com]

*hug* It'll be ok. I responded to your post in Bunny owners too.

I have 12 buns and only 2 have Pasturella (actively). None of the rest have shown any symptoms and that includes the other 4 that live in the same room with them (different cages). None of the cats have any symptoms either.

Have had really good results with Baytril. We've only had to debride a few times and they came through with flying colors. They love strawberry banana yogurt after the baytril too.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

She was already on baytril for 3 weeks. She got better for a week or so and then started getting worse again. So I asked them to do a culture because whatever it was, baytril wasn't doing it. That's when they confirmed pasturella. So it's likely a baytril-resistant strain :(

We're starting the new meds tomorrow, and I'm flailing to find someone to dose her while I'm out of town for 2 days over Memorial Day weekend - it's a convention in Columbus and I've already got my plane tix so I can't take her with me.

[caitriona27.livejournal.com]

Ick. We haven't had to deal with the Baytril resistance on those 2. I do have a case of head tilt though that the ear infection was Baytril resistant.

*hug* I know how it goes trying to find a bunny sitter. Thankfully the one time we needed to do meds we were able to take him with us.

Good Luck.