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» Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:55 pm
Bailey is feeling better, going to keep giving her eye drops 3 times a day, pain meds once a day, and put a towel wrapped cold pack on her legs. She has got up in her restricted cage several times to eat hay and drink water based off of my piggy camera. This is exciting and I hope she continues to improve, I know Bella would want her sister to thrive!
I have some questions regarding my other young pig but I'm not sure if I should create a new thread for her. But I'll add to her story here since I already mentioned it here. Bactrim isn't working so we left a message to vet (he doesn't work today, but does tomorrow) to try a different antibiotics for her uri. We have both baytril and doxy from Bella a few weeks ago, but I saw baytril is NOT recommended for young pigs. This poor baby still has all of her personality, energy, and spunk, but still sick with multiple things. I'm hoping a different antibiotic doesn't upset her appetite as bactrim didn't (its day 5 and she has more snot and no decrease in sneezing... No labored breathing, lethargy, or crusty eyes though!)
Furthermore, she had slight scabbing under her nose, but I'm not sure if it's from ringworm/mites or if it's cheilitis. We have bathed her in the recommended shampoos and have been puting clotrimazole 1% on it 2-3 times a day. Her patch of ringworm is still getting somewhat scaly, but is shrinking in size and has no more bloody scabs.... But it's also more swollen. Does this sound concerning??? The ivermectin should be here Wednesday (if it's mites) but when I talk to vet I'll see if there's anything else we can do.