Rabbit eye - help needed!

Re: Rabbit eye - help needed!

Gareth C. — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 20:02:44 GMT

Do cytology. If lots of neuts consider topical nsaid. Topical abs prob go for ciloxan or exocin every few hrs until infection under control. Serum good too, let it clot in brown tube then decant. This eye shouldn't need to come out. There's not much between the rabbit eyes so infections can spread.

Re: Rabbit eye - help needed!

Suzanne Kelly — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 23:53:17 GMT

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[quote user="Suzanne Kelly"]I forgot about serum. I had a rabbit like that and I used the Os Labrador to make up serum, worked really well.

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That's not very autologous....................

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I know! I thought serum had to be from at least the same species if not from the same animal. Apparently not, specialist opthalmologist told me to use the dog, I did ( with some trepidation) and it was brilliant

Re: Rabbit eye - help needed!

Michael Woodhouse — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 01:55:45 GMT

[quote user="Suzanne Kelly"]I forgot about serum. I had a rabbit like that and I used the Os Labrador to make up serum, worked really well.

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That's not very autologous....................

Re: Rabbit eye - help needed!

Suzanne Kelly — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:42:15 GMT

I forgot about serum. I had a rabbit like that and I used the Os Labrador to make up serum, worked really well.

Re: Rabbit eye - help needed!

Robin Grimmer — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:57:25 GMT

Injectable penicillin is fine in rabbits. Never give orally!

Re: Rabbit eye - help needed!

Sarah Keir — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:44:15 GMT

Thank you for the help guys! It is nice to find I can still get help and receive enjoyment from vetsurgeon, after reading all the awful back stabbing that goes on here sometimes!

I must be behind the times because I thought penicillins killed rabbits. This rabbit is on enrofloxacin oral currently.

I am trying to persuade the owners to let me debride the abscess but with the risk of rupture, they are not keen.

Re: Rabbit eye - help needed!

Marie Kubiak — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:13:15 GMT

I was under the impression that penicillins given systemically do not reach therapeutic levels in ocular tissues (barring methicillin) so I tend to avoid reliance on these for ocular infections. Enrofloxacin reaches therapeutic levels in cornea and anterior chamber (and in tears) so is a good first line for this type of lesion if C&S is not available. I also have had good results in combination with autologous serum drops in rabbits for even very advanced lesions like this but I would be tempted to gently debride the plaque first under light sedation.

Marie

Re: Rabbit eye - help needed!

Suzanne Kelly — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 01:17:59 GMT

Rabbits have rubbish menace reflexes and PLRs due to being in a state of holy terror at the vets, so don't worry about that.

+ 1 for Penicillin and fenbendazole

Re: Rabbit eye - help needed!

Mark Rowland — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 22:35:31 GMT

Plus one for injectable penicillin. Don't use depocillin though. It says on the bottle "do not give to rabbits" so you are not covered. I would use streptacare myself. Plus lots of analgesia (melox/tramadol)

The eye may need to come out but I would give it the chance first, You can take it out later but can't put it back.

Goodluck

Re: Rabbit eye - help needed!

Hannah Wynne Richards — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:52:34 GMT

Before enucleation, I'd GA, examine the eye under magnification. It looks to me like an abcess that's undermining the corneal epithelium. Debride Take swab. Whilst awaiting result ensure antibiosis covers C pyogenes - rabbits can take penicillin. I'd use depocillin 50mgs/kg alternate days. Good luck

Wynne

Re: Rabbit eye - help needed!

Anthony Dennison — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:48:49 GMT

We had a rabbit with hypopyon in one eye over Easter weekend - took the eye out. Fine since I believe. We did start it on panacur just in case there was some sort of E. Cuniculi involvement