Your vet should give you a supply of the antibiotics to bring home, as they
should be administered twice daily. Having her treat only 2 of them while
in the office isn't going o do much good, unfortunately. She should figure
the dose according to their weight and send you home with the meds and a
supply of needle-less syringes to give it to all the exposed animals.
Jill
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> From: (Sarah) (Churchman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Help More Tyzzers-Can't get meds until wednesday
> Date: Monday, November 13, 2000 2:51 PM
>
> Hi! This is Sarah.
> You may remember my posts regarding my Tyzzers outbreak and me having to
hand
> rear my pups which died anyway as they were too young.
> Well for over a week I have had no problems, all of my Gerbils have been
> really shiny and healthy and my 2 Males that were infected are almost
> completely back to normal.
> I had been advised to put all my gerbils on Tetracycline but when I went
to
> my vet she only had Baytril and only treated the poorly males.She said to
> keep the sick ones isolated from the healthy ones and practice scrupulous
> hygiene, which I have done.
> Unfortunately when I was checking my gerbils this morning I looked in
the
> tank of my pair who have 10, 15 day old pups and found that the smallest
pup
> had been chewed on his back and was bloodstained.This set off the alarm
bells
> as when my last female was ill she chewed her pups feet and tails, so I
> picked up the mother.Guess What? She had diahorreah and is looking
> ruffled.She looks nowhere near as ill as my mother who died when I
discovered
> her so I phoned the vet straight away.She said Ornacycline(?) is an
American
> drug and she can't get hold of it but agreed it sounds like Tyzzers
disease,
> she said she would check what drug she could get and phone me back.
> I was not phoned for 4 hours but she said she can order me some
antibiotic
> in, it is the same sort of thing but it is called Tetracyline but with
> another word in front of it which I couldn't quite catch.She says I need
to
> treat all my Gerbils for 30 days but she does not know when the drug will
> arrive as she doesn't usually carry it, the earliest will be Wednesday.
> Is there anything I can do in the meantime for this Mother? I have the
> enclosure isolated and with a hot water bottle and loads of extra
bedding.She
> is still allowing the pups to nurse but I am wondering what will happen
if
> she doesn't make it.Will the pups be able to survive?They have their eyes
> open and are eating oatmeal I put in for them but are still only tiny.The
> litter I tried to handrear last week all died after 3 days of me feeding
them
> and I was just wondering whether it would be kinder to have my pups
> euthanized than let them die off slowly like my others did.
> Thanks for all your help
> Sarah
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