I had a text-chat with the vet just now and she says if Juno still vomits tomorrow, I would have to bring her in for some anti-vomit medication so that we can continue giving her the Baycox.
I gave her the rest of the 0.5ml of Baycox at 4.00pm today and it’s coming to 7.00pm now. So far, there is no vomiting. The vet did say that she has not had any patient who has vomited due to the Baycox. But it’s written on its official website that its side effects are: vomiting, diarrhoea and loss of appetite, which are the very effects of coccidiosis which the medicine aims to cure. Sigh. So the medicine can cause the exact same symptoms? A bit weird there, isn’t it? So how would we know that the symptoms are due to the progress of the disease or due to the side effects of the medicine? I cannot figure this out…yet. Can you?
Juno’s last watery diarrhoea was at 12.30pm, so it’s been 6.5 hours of being diarrhoea-free. Does this mean the medicine is working? I certainly hope so.
I know that coccidiosis can be fatal in young animals so yes, I am very worried about it. It almost causes no harm in healthy adults because their immunity is strong enough to handle the parasite.
I force fed Juno some ID at 6.30pm just now, I also gave her some probiotic. Let’s hope there is no vomiting after this. She wasn’t happy to eat, actually. So I had to force feed her. I hope she can at least retain this batch of food. It was only a heaped teaspoon. I did explain to her and told her how sorry I was that I had to give her all this horrible-tasting medicine. I wonder if she understood…
There’s still a 1ml of Kaolin-Pectin for today, but I shall hold that off until later tonight to see if she needs it. The vet says if there is well-formed stools, the Kaolin-Pectin can stop.
Juno had a long 2.5 hour nap since 4.00pm. I more or less woke her up to feed her the ID just now as it’s been long enough that she’s been without food, especially after the bouts of vomiting where the food had come out. Even the kibble that she willingly ate this morning all came out in the vomitus.
Tabs came to look in on Juno.
Get well soon, Juno. This is one hurdle you have to cross. We are all rooting for you.