I responded in you other thread, just want to reiterate that you are doing a great job! Hang in there!

If your other bunny didn’t have respiratory symptoms, I doubt it was related. It can be so hard dealing with chronic conditions, there are so many “what ifs” and unknowns. I don’t have any personal experience with nebulizers, but I know some members have.

Hang in there, as long as she is eating, pooping, and generally behaving normally then I wouldn’t panic. Also try not to google too much… a lot of the info on treating these things in rabbits is more from breeders who tend to deal with things differently… It’s a very different outcome with a pet house rabbit.

@Dface , haven’t you had to use a nebulizer with one Peep or Yumi?  I think @Bianca might have also had to use one with her Greebo, but I haven’t seen her active on the forum since we re-opened.

I’ve alerted the other moderators to see if any of them have any more info.

Hello!

Yup @DanaNM all my buns have been on a nebuliser at some point or other in their lives.

Peep is on one permanently – he suffered a very bad pseudomonas infection that has left him with chronic nasal discharge ( looks like inflammation of his turbinate)
He is permanently on metacam (oral)  and f10 sterilization fluid (nebuliser)

I use on omron ne c28p with a childs size facemask for him and Yumi, and I made a nebulising chamber for Moink (because no way I could hold a creature of pure energy and rage)

I nebulise f10 sterilizing  fluid for about 30 minutes. This stuff is not actually medication so it isnt prescription and you can buy it online and I highhhly recommend it.  It used to be twice a day nebulising and metacam but now it is less frequent and he only needs it on days his breathing is bad.

I would try and get a culture done if I were you. They are expensive and may not show up anything, but for my boy the culture and sensitivity is likely what saved his life; none of the antibiotics that are used in rabbits would actually have helped him- he had a rare and very resistant strain that needed to be treated with antibiotics not usually used in rabbits.

With a nebuliser you are looking for a lower decibal level if you can (so the noise doesn’t scare them ) and a partical size of about 3.0 µm  to try get it into the lower airways , i think 5 µm is considered too large and will only deposit in the upper airways, whereas too small (like 0.5 µm is easily exhaled instead of deposited) – this was correct as of when I last checked ~ two ish years ago so there  may be new information around that.

A lot of people will also use saline solution- this is great for breaking up thick mucus, but long term I find that the salt irritates the skin and the lining of the nose, and doesnt have the same scope for retarding the development of viruses/bacteria as F10, but short term if you have easier access to saline solution I myself used it for quiet a while before moving on to the F10 stuff.

I figured I would chime in, George nebulized for most of his life. He had chronic URI problems. He was nebulized 2X a day 15-20 min each with saline and acetylcysteine. I too made nebulization chamber for George. George lived until 7, he did not pass away because of the URI. He was happy his entire life. It may just be a chronic problem with Charlie he may also have allergies that are instigating the problems. Nebulization definitely helps, you can even nebulize with antibiotics which is a lot more effective, and increases the variety of antibiotics that can be used.

I know I felt discourage at first because of the horror stories, but at least for George we got it under control and it was just a matter of living management.

As to the nebulizer I used I used vetneb (you can google it and find it on livestock supply shops), and for the cup I used airlife misty max 10 I found they worked really well.