At the same time Hol and Carrie were on antibiotics for their respiratory problems, I also had Elly on it, too.
I noticed a little lump on Elly’s throat, about the size of a pea. It didn’t seem to hurt her when I touched it, but that still didn’t mean it wasn’t an abscess or anything worse. After checking it over a period of a week, thinking it might just disappear or get bigger, I took her to the vets with the rest of the females.
The vet also put her on antibiotics. She had a very small amount, though, as she was very small at the time. The vet told me that it’s unusual for lumps such as the one Elly had to disappear with antibiotics alone. However, to my relief, within a week of being on the dosage, the lump had completely vanished. Now I just had to nurse the other two females back to health.
It just goes to show, similar to the chest problems scenario, that you never know how a guinea pig or its health issue is going to react to antibiotics. Like every species, I guess.
