Car struck squirrel in Denver

[Sqwirl]

From what the finder describes, it isn't good

If anyone is in Denver and can help, send me a PM with contact info. Here is the thread on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/squirrels/c...eeking_advice/

[22Cutesquirrel]

Hi . I’m his wife .and is good, a little in shock .we try to give it some water but don’t, is in a box, warm and I will put a sock with warm rice in a couple of min. Has his backs legs paralyzed, but I have faith his gonna be ok cause I love squirrel ..we need advise about how to make him feel better and with less pain. It ok give him a baby aspirin ? Besides the water ,what ca. We give it ? I read banana for the shock ? That’s works?
Thank you for any advise and the concern .i have a picture if you need .

[Sqwirl]

I was thinking a banana slice might help a bit because I know there is electrolytic imbalance after shock. I figured it was unlikely that he could drink from a bowl, and bananas have potassium and some other minerals plus some moisture. Potassium is an electrolyte. Another thing you could do if you have a dropper or oral syringe is make some ORS according to the following recipe
1 Quart or Liter of drinking or boiled Water
5 cupfuls (each cup about 200 ml.)
Quarter (1/4) teaspoon of Salt
Quarter (1/4) teaspoon Baking Soda (bicarbonate of soda).
Two (2) tablespoons of Sugar or Honey

You could dissolve a tiny dose of aspirin in it and give that orally with a dropper, but for an animal this size the dose would be around 10 mg and then repeat every 3 hours. That's a very small amount. You should be careful about giving too much as rodents respond more strongly to NSAIDs like aspirin than we do, and they can have a blood thinning effect for them which is dangerous in too high doses.

Give it warm and be gentle. You're helping just by giving him a quiet and peaceful place.

[stepnstone]

No (more) aspirin! Infant liquid ibuprofen is what you need.
Any chance for antibiotics? Predisone is highly recommended for paralysis.
Shock causes low blood sugar, rubbing molasses (best) or another
syrup sweetener, honey etc. on his gums will raise it's blood sugar.

Home made recipe for hydration, keeping hydrated is very important.
Re-hydration fluid:
1 teaspoon salt
3 Tablespoons sugar
1 quart water.

Also attaching link to squirrel care. Go to this link this is a HUGE help.
It's 6 pages long with the next button on the top right corner.
http://www.henryspets.com/baby-squirrel-care/

[Sqwirl]

Just to clarify things:
Ibuprofen is another NSAID, and rodents are very sensitive to them, as I mentioned. Stepnstone did not include dosing info for ibuprofen, but you must be extremely careful to give an appropriate dose for the animal's size, like I posted before. They can thin blood and increase bleeding if too much is given.

The recipe that was posted is for the same purpose as the one I posted before. It's an ORS.

Prednisone is a steroid. Of course you won't have access to that, but hopefully a wildlife rehabber can be found who is near to you and can help with meds like that.

[stepnstone]

Just to clarify things:
Ibuprofen is another NSAID, and rodents are very sensitive to them, as I mentioned. Stepnstone did not include dosing info for ibuprofen, but you must be extremely careful to give an appropriate dose for the animal's size, like I posted before. They can thin blood and increase bleeding if too much is given.

The recipe that was posted is for the same purpose as the one I posted before. It's an ORS.

Prednisone is a steroid. Of course you won't have access to that, but hopefully a wildlife rehabber can be found who is near to you and can help with meds like that.

Since all medicatios are dosed by weight, Stepnstone did not have a weight to give a proper dose.