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Forum DIET & CARE Treatment for diarrhea

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    • June M
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        So I’m new here and my 3 year old spayed bun has diarrhea. Its rather sticky and foul smelling so its probably intermittent diarrhea. Last night there was some liquidy stool along with the gooey stool but she had passed normal kind as well. She is eating fine and flopping on the floor but I’m worried because last night there was a lot of the pastey stool. Is it diarrhea? I’ve got ORS ready in case It’s needed. What should I do next?


      • Bam
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          If she has normal round poop as well as the sticky poop, it’s probably not true diarrhea, but the liquidy stool does seem troublesome. This is an article on ISC, intermittent soft cecotropes, that you might already have read. If you haven’t please read it, even if it’s rather long:
          http://rabbit.org/intermittent-soft-cecotropes-in-rabbits/

          As you can see in the article, ISC is due to a disrupted microbial flora in the cecum and it is best treated with a dietary change. Lots of grassy hay, not so much pellets and fresh greens, no sweet treats (not even apple or carrot). All dietary changes in bunnies must however be done slowly, if you just take away all pellets and greens and offer only hay, the bun might not eat the hay, and even a short period (hours) of not eating is very dangerous for a bunny.

          If your bunny stops eating, it’s a veterinary emergency after just 12 hours, sometimes not even that long. If there’s more liquidy poop, I’d contact a vet. Once after a bout of gas, one of my bunnies passed like a teaspoon (or a little less) of liquid poop (no mucus, not watery poop, just like a smooth brown cream – yes, gross!!! But the subject of bunny poop is sth a bunny owner can’t avoid!), then he was fine again and had normal poop. I’d given him baby gas drops (simeticone) for the gas, it’s a bunny safe med that might or might not be effective for breaking up gas-bubbles, but it won’t harm.

          If the liquidy poop is watery or has mucous in it, I’d call a vet.


        • June M
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            She is eating fine thankfully but she is such a troublesome bun. She barely eats hay. I literally have to shove it in her face and only then she nibbles on it. I will get the pedriatic simeticone for her asap and take out the greens slowly and switch to hay. Thanks for the help


          • Bam
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              It is often difficult to get them to enough hay, and as you probably know, hay should make up 80-85% of their diet. I’ve had to try many types of hay. My buns prefer soft hay, 3rd or 4th cut, other rabbits might prefer a stalkier hay. It doesn’t have to be timothy (even if timothy is excellent, it doesn’t matter if it’s excellent if it doesn’t get into the bun’s tummy), there is orchard and oat hay and botanical and meadow.

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