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My rat has had very minor crusties of porphorin in the corners of one of her eyes and both nostrils. It's nothing major though and she's been sneezing from time to time. My main concern is I heard her do a weird almost coughing sneeze when she first got out of her hammock when I greeted good morning to both of my rats. I've been keeping an eye on her because of the sneezing so it freaked me out. I immediately separated her from her cage mate and brought her to my bedroom to keep a closer eye on her behaviour. She honestly sneezed 2 times in the hour and a half that I had her out. She's been running around on my bed and sniffing everything out. She's been quite hyper.
Thinking it might have been a build up of porphorin in her nose or something blocking her breathing somehow I put her in the carrying case I have for them and set it on the toilet seat while I had a hot shower. I kept checking on her every so often and she was fine except near the end of my shower she was digging at the kid of the carrying cage so I stopped the shower and opened the bathroom door and she was totally fine.
She's still crawling around my bed without making that sound I first heard. It's super weird. It's like you'd never know she even made it if you hadn't have been there because she seems to be 99%.
What should I do? Should I make an appointment with a vet to get her checked out (it's almost impossible here as no vet feels "comfortable" performing an examination on a rat.
I've been giving her oregano oil twice a day (just a few drops) but I think I'll stop for today and see if that's what's making her do that funny sound? Could just be having a weird effect on her maybe? I moreso did it when I first got her to boost her immune system and continued it to be on the safe side. It's been exactly 2 weeks that I've been giving it to her. But only 2 days ago I started doing it day and night.
Hopefully someone can offer some advice on what to do or has had experience with weird symptoms such as the one I've mentioned. Sorry this post is so long. I wanted to give a good description so someone can help me better
Thinking it might have been a build up of porphorin in her nose or something blocking her breathing somehow I put her in the carrying case I have for them and set it on the toilet seat while I had a hot shower. I kept checking on her every so often and she was fine except near the end of my shower she was digging at the kid of the carrying cage so I stopped the shower and opened the bathroom door and she was totally fine.
She's still crawling around my bed without making that sound I first heard. It's super weird. It's like you'd never know she even made it if you hadn't have been there because she seems to be 99%.
What should I do? Should I make an appointment with a vet to get her checked out (it's almost impossible here as no vet feels "comfortable" performing an examination on a rat.
I've been giving her oregano oil twice a day (just a few drops) but I think I'll stop for today and see if that's what's making her do that funny sound? Could just be having a weird effect on her maybe? I moreso did it when I first got her to boost her immune system and continued it to be on the safe side. It's been exactly 2 weeks that I've been giving it to her. But only 2 days ago I started doing it day and night.
Hopefully someone can offer some advice on what to do or has had experience with weird symptoms such as the one I've mentioned. Sorry this post is so long. I wanted to give a good description so someone can help me better