Help! swollen milk glands

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- 02/03/2014 at 7:59 PM
  Max1
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  My 5 month old female rabbit has very swollen milk glands. She is not pregnant. I thought it could be mastitis but it doesn’t seem infected, not hot or red- it just feels like her glands are full of milk. No milk is coming out. It started four days ago and every day her glands feel more swollen. If its a false pregnancy thing will the milk go away on its own?
- 02/03/2014 at 8:35 PM
  Beka27
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  From my understanding of false pregnancies, the changes are behavioral/mental bc the hormones have them believing they are about to deliver. They usually pull fur, but again, that is a nesting behavior and not actually a physical change. I don’t think any milk comes in.
  
  (As you can probably tell, I’ve not dealt with this personally, but this is my understanding…)
  
  I will send an alert to the other forum leaders for their input… They may know better than me if this is possible.
  
  I think that this should be checked out by your vet either way.
  
  How long have you had her? When was her last vet exam?
- 02/03/2014 at 8:43 PM
  LBJ10
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  I googled it. One of the symptoms of false pregnancy is “mammary and nipple development”. It doesn’t really say anything about actual milk coming in. Since hormones are triggered in a false pregnancy, I can understand the nipples becoming visible. But their hormones usually drop when no babies come.
- 02/04/2014 at 7:55 AM
  RabbitPam
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  I’m with Beka in that I think she should be checked out by your vet regardless of the cause. Any kind of swelling or physical change that is significant should be looked at by a doc. There may be other factors involved, or just may be some relief to her that the vet can provide. It can’t be comfortable for your bunny whatever the reason.
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