Guinea pig just lost a tooth!!!!

[lilyka]

holy cow! there is blood everywhere and of course our vet is not open today. she was just eating grass and and tooth fell out. dd was holding her and hand feeding her grass. its bleeding and she is trembling. is this something to worry about? Should I do something.

[lilyka]

holy crap!! both teeth have been knocked clean out. guess it is time to call the vet.....there is a possibly that they had a vit. c deficiency as they were stolen and brought back a couple weeks ago severly malnurished. We have been working on getting them up to weight and they have been getting plenty of vit c these last two weeks.....I don't know what else could have happened. she was grazing in the yard for a few minutes....is it possible she hit a rock or something while munching?

[Mary-Beth]

call a vet if you can.
Sometimes guinea pigs loose too much blood. Ours hurt its toe nail before. They had a special cream to put on it to help the blood clot/ stop bleeding.

[lilyka]

I called our vet who is not just awesome but an exotic specialist. they said call the Emergancy clinic. the Clinic said they couldn't do anything about it and to call an exotic specialist on Monday. The bleeding has stopped and we have a variety of mashed fruits in her basket and I am giving her water through a dropper. the kids said she took off running over our landscaping rocks which she may have stumbled and knocked her teeth out. it looks like they broke off and should grow back from what I have read.

[Nicole915]

Keep her hydrated, they require a lot of water. Using a syringe (without a needle) or something of that sort works best if the dropper is taking forever. Don't feed her tomorrow morning before you take her into your vet, they may need to sedate her a little to get a good look at whats going on, or to take some dental xrays. They may want to do a cbc and chemistry to see if she's got some underlying issue that caused the break to occur.

Take all this with a grain of salt, I am not a exotics specialist. =)


(I'm not your vet, and this isn't medical advice)

[Breathless Wonder]

OMG! Hope the GP is okay!

[lilyka]

woot woot good news. I don't know if she has figured out the water bottle but love sipping water through the dropper. She had also eaten quite a bit of kiwi and I had her out in the yard and she was able to munch grass. So the girls are out grazing right now. But I was able to get a good look are her teeth and they were broken off at the gum line, not knocked completely out. So they should grow back just fine in time. Yay!!! Just a little TLC is all she needs until that happens. The vet will watch her teeth if they start growing in wonky.