Chandlerdubberly
09-14-2017, 06:36 PM
Hello everyone. I am a first time rehabber and I have a 6.5 or 7 week old eastern grey baby squirrel named Peanut. I found out recently he is unreleasable because he is blind in one eye. My fiance and I are going to be keeping him, he is my only baby in the house now. On Sept 8th, I took Peanut to the vet and found out he has aspiration pneumonia. They prescribed I inject 0.02 Baytril once daily under the skin and nebulize twice daily with 2ml saline 0.20ml budesonide and 0.20ml baytril in the nebulizer. He has been on the medication seven days today, today being Sept 14th. Today, during afternoon feeding he aspirated very badly! I use the syringe the vet gave me and a miracle nipple but somehow I pushed down too fast and he aspirated. He spit up formula and spit out of his nose for a good minute. I was panicking because he was acting lethargic right after. Once he settled down and stopped sneezing formula up I nebulized him. After the nebulizing treatment he was acting fine and active. What more can I do since he is already on Baytril? How likely is he to get aspiration pneumonia while being on antibiotics already? I called my vet and they told me their wasnt much I could do except keep a close eye on him for a couple of days. I'm so worried. Before he aspirated today though I should also mention within these seven days he still sneezes even though he's been on the medication but still as happy, healthy and hungry. I also still hear a very very faint clicking noise every now and again. Ugh :sadness