Please help.. sneezing and wheezing 5 month old male

[Kmoorc]

My 5 month old Fox squirrel that I have been rehabbing started sneezing yesterday and is wobbly and weak. His sister is fine and bouncing off the walls. He has had a sneezing episode before where he knocked a bunch of cardboard mulch onto his face and then was fine the next day. He is still eating and drinking and is on the required rodent block for nutritional reasons but I had to get a different kind this time and took a good day for them to eat it. He has almonds, spinach, grapes, blueberries, walnuts,and apples as snacks throughout the day. He has always been super active and really silly so hard to see him like this. The sneezing seems to be when he is sitting still or lying down but it stops long enough to eat etc.

[Spanky]

Can you listen to his chest to see if it sounds raspy or crackly? Or even something like Rice Crispies cereal after the milk is added... let us know ASAP.

At 5 months, he is right around the age that a calcium depleting diet could be developing into Metabolic Bone Disease (MBD).

If he has an infection, he'll need to be treated with antibiotics... do you have any antibiotics on hand?

If he has MBD he'll need to be treated with calcium.... so it will be important to work with us to help determine which (or both?) course of action is appropriate.

Just based on the brief listing of his diet it seems to me he may be getting too much fruit and not enough veggies. And this is very critical:

1) What type of rodent block is he eating and how much of it is he eating each day?

2) How many nuts does he eat on average each day?