Guinea pig with perineal irritation, incontinence and poss pu/pd

Re: Guinea pig with perineal irritation, incontinence and poss pu/pd

Vet2Vet — Sun, 24 May 2015 20:14:52 GMT

I have one with a really hard bladder female with glucose in urine . Given dietary advice and glucosuria has reduced on dipstick to 2+ instead of 4+ . Have advised xrays . It's on antibiotics at the moment .

Re: Guinea pig with perineal irritation, incontinence and poss pu/pd

Glenn Hodgson — Thu, 14 May 2015 22:36:51 GMT

I've taken to x-raying and sediment exam on every guinea with dysuria If consented to. many with stones and crystals. People should feed them grass and hay not guinea munchies.

Re: Guinea pig with perineal irritation, incontinence and poss pu/pd

Marie Kubiak — Thu, 14 May 2015 17:01:05 GMT

yes, just a urine dipstick and refractometer SG. If no stone on rads and evidence of inflammation/discomfort then I do cytology with sedistain to look for bacteria/inflammatory cells.

Re: Guinea pig with perineal irritation, incontinence and poss pu/pd

Luca Poddighe — Thu, 14 May 2015 16:49:25 GMT

[quote user="Marie Kubiak"]In house urinalysis is cheap and cheerful to carry out too.[/quote]

Do you do it with normal combur test stick, refractometer and sedistain? Or otherwise what would you use?

Re: Guinea pig with perineal irritation, incontinence and poss pu/pd

Marie Kubiak — Thu, 14 May 2015 16:46:33 GMT

+ 1 for rads - we remove stones with monotonous regularity (usually on a Friday night...). Chronic dysuria, intermittent anorexia, lethargy and abdominal pain are very common. In house urinalysis is cheap and cheerful to carry out too.

Marie

Re: Guinea pig with perineal irritation, incontinence and poss pu/pd

Neil Wheadon — Thu, 14 May 2015 11:26:23 GMT

X-Ray Him

In my experience, bladder stones are pretty common in these cases and I've seen some that have filled the whole bladder that haven't been felt

Neil