Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope?
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Thank you so much for sharing Idaho Nancy! I needed to hear that it is possible!
I guess right now we are in the gray zone, not getting worst, and not obviously getting better. I'm crossing my fingers his fever stays away, I hate using banamine for so many days in a row (day 4), especially on such a tiny guy.
Our routine is now only 6 oz of milk at a time, a tiny bottle and the tiniest of holes in the nipple, plus I only allow him access to feed for 1 second at a time, then I make him stop and swallow. It's extremely time consuming, one tiny bottle takes about 20-30 minutes to finish, but he hasn't obviously aspirated since I started this "bottle dance" yesterday afternoon. At this rate he will need 6 bottles/day.
Some people have suggested I look into weaning him early, the vet hesitantly mentioned it as well. Being 7 weeks old its far younger than I'd like, but I truly don't think he will ever drink from a bottle correctly. I've started introducing calf manna per suggestion as additional nutrient replacements.
Any thoughts? I even tried feeding from a pan, he puts his nose up and flips the bowl with his hoof little stinker.
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RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 04-16-2017, 12:24 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by IdahoNancy - 04-17-2017, 02:09 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by GoldenTreePackGoats - 04-17-2017, 08:01 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by IdahoNancy - 04-17-2017, 08:23 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 04-17-2017, 10:17 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 04-20-2017, 07:45 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Taffy - 04-20-2017, 02:46 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-11-2017, 10:15 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-12-2017, 10:03 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Perry - 10-11-2017, 09:15 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-12-2017, 05:08 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-24-2017, 10:28 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-25-2017, 07:53 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-26-2017, 07:35 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-27-2017, 09:57 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 03-15-2018, 02:02 PM

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