Venus' Inflamed Gums

Hello again readers,

Today we wanted to discuss Venus, she gave us quite a scare a little while back. 

We noticed Venus seemed very uncomfortable one afternoon. We decided to get her out for a play time, take her weight, and do some other general health checks. She refused. Venus wasn't interested in her dust bath, play time, and was even turning away some of her favorite food. 

Venus was taken straight to the vet to be assessed. Thankfully Venus' hadn't lost any weight (750g-800g is her normal weight range), no lumps or bumps, incisors appeared fine, we couldn't see any molar abnormalities (though we couldn't perform an overly thorough check with the scope) however she did have some inflammation around her gums.
The vet believed it would be sensible to put Venus on some Metacam/Meloxicam, take some X-Ray images the following day, and give Venus a whiff of gas to have a thorough look at the inside of her mouth.

Thankfully, the X-Ray images appeared to be completely normal. Venus actually had to go under a full anesthetic in order to have a good look at her mouth as she was coming around too quickly with just the gas alone.There was nothing too concerning, there was the most minuscule spike on one of her molars (they corrected it), but they weren't convinced it was the origin of problem.

The Metacam/Meloxicam had taken away most of the inflammation, so the vet believed it was probably best to see how she goes with the anti-inflammatories for a few days instead of throwing medication at her as a "what if" - it often does more harm than good.

After she had the day to recover from the anesthetic, Venus drastically improved day by day.

After another conversation with the vet, she believed Venus probably just caught her gum on a sharp piece of hay, or something else which she may have chewed.

We are pleased to say Venus has made a full recovery and required no further medical attention.

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