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Rabbit folks...

George started displaying symptoms of his upper respiratory infection coming back. The vet had previously said that he might live the rest of his life with a low-level infection, but I don't know if this counts as low-level, so I'm taking him back to the vet tomorrow, the soonest I could get him in.

I'm wondering if any of you are particularly knowledgeable about antibiotics in our buns? I've always heard from vets that there were only "a couple" that were appropriate for rabbit use, but the House Rabbit Society - rabbit.org - has this article which lists a bunch more (it also includes a bunch you can't use). Anyone have any opinions on this?
https://rabbit.org/health/appropriate-use-of-antibiotics-in-rabbits/

George has already been through enrofloxacin ("Baytril") with steroids when he was at the Small Animal Clinic in Saskatoon last fall, and then oral ciprofloxacin ("Ciloxan") and injected penicillin from two more rounds from our vet here in town. Obviously getting a culture done to confirm what drug will affect it will be best, and I'll try for that, but I'm wondering whether I should be pushing for any of the other medications from this article if they just want to do more of what he's already had so far.

[argh: hit some key combination which lost long message I'd typed; apologies if this re-write sounds frustrated]

#HouseRabbit #antibiotic

Appropriate Use of Antibiotics in Rabbits

Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections. When needed for treatment of an infection in a rabbit, these drugs should be prescribed only by a

Rabbit.org Foundation
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Show threadSatori 🌷 4h ago
@cazabon Oh no, I’m so sorry the symptoms have started up again 😔. I’ve only experience with baytril and cipro but am boosting forth ❤️
Show threadC.1h ago

@Satori

Thanks to all for the boosts. I'm going to bed, but if anyone has comments I'll definitely be reading them before taking George to the vet tomorrow.

After a bunch of reading, azithromycin, doxycycline, marbofloxacin, and sulfadimethoxine all look like good candidates depending on the particular bug involved. Maybe I can get them to test those in the lab.

I think I've also had most of those myself over the years 😉

Show threadCurtAdams1h ago

@cazabon I would say you'd want a culture to find out what bacteria it is (or are) and what it's sensitive to. Just chucking antibiotics and hoping something works doesn't seem to be working.

That said, you can't cure all bacterial infections with antibiotics. For example, sometimes nothing cures human sinus infections.

Show threadbria38m ago

@cazabon

Our rabbit get marbofloxacine after another antibiotic didn't work for his nasal infection, and it heal him.
But as other comments point it, wait for the culture as every situation is different.

We also find that it could be temperature dependent, and raising the "night" temperature of the house seems to help.