Drooling blood from mouth
One of my females is drooling blood from her mouth. She was out for 4 hours today with her sister completely supervised the entire time. I never leave them alone. She found a spot to nest in and slept most of the time, played some, and was acting fine. I put them up and a couple hours later I went to cook. When I came back to check them. She wasn't in the hammock they both choose to sleep in. She was in the secondary house in the cage grunting, in what I thought sounded like pain, and every so often she would come out and rub her face on objects then go back and lie down again. She finally just came out for water and she has bloody drool down her chin and she couldn't drink from the bottle. I have placed a bowl in the cage now with water since I was able to get her to drink water from a small lid. She keeps opening her jaws but I can't fully see in her mouth. I cannot tell if she's opening because she's having trouble swallowing and gagging or from discomfort. She seemed to swallow her water okay. I tried to hold her and look myself but she was having none of that. Her incisors are fine from what I saw....but she is my girl that chews on the cage. I don't want to medicate her unnecessarily, and I'm extremely worried about her, but I live in a state where I cannot take her to a vet. If I need to give children's ibuprofen for pain could someone help me with the dosage, I have some antibiotics on hand as well. Should I give them also or wait a couple of days? I haven't been able to see if she's bitten her tongue, and I'm worried she won't be able to eat. She hasn't tonight that I have seen. Any help at all would be much appreciated!
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