This information is not to be used in replacement of a certified Veterinarian. Every medication of any form has the possibilities of side-effects. Those side-effects, & the results of them, may vary greatly from rabbit to rabbit & all may be affected by various other elements such as other medications, foods, age & health, & other things. With this said, the statements here-in are not written as an absolute answer or guarantee; these are simply common treatments used by those who have experienced successful results with such, but in no way guarantee the same results for every situation. Furthermore, we do not claim to be vet’s, nor are we in any way liable or responsible for any results, be it positive or negative, due to the use of the information stated within. Use of any information offered is done so fully at your own risk. Yes! They can recover just fine from this issue if treated properly. However, if stasis goes untreated, it could result in death. My Personal Experiences with GI Stasis

Liu et al. [ 28] tested three doses of a probiotic strain of Clostridium butyricum (CCTCC AB: 2017089; low dose, 1.0 × 10 3 CFU/g; medium dose, 1.0 × 10 4 CFU/g; high dose, 1.0 × 10 5 CFU/g) in 5-month-old primiparous female rabbits (Sichuan white rex rabbit) until new-born weaning (35 days), and then also fed the weaning rabbits themselves with the same diet of the mothers (4-week feeding trial). The authors reported that compared to the control, rabbits supplemented with a high dose of probiotic elongated the length of the villi of small intestinal tissues, while the medium dose group showed longer villi in the duodenum and ileum. On the other hand, probiotic treatments decreased the crypt depth of weaning rex rabbits. Therefore, the ratios of villus length to crypt depth (VL/CD) were greater in the high dose group than in the control and low dose group. Probiotics can increase villus length and decrease crypt depth in the small intestine, which is beneficial for the digestion and absorption of nutrients, thus directly affecting mucosa morphology, digestive enzyme activity, and consequently growth performance. Obviously it’s too early to tell whether these new probiotic pellets are actually improving their intestinal flora, but that is what they are intended to do. My wife has recently been reading about the benefits of probiotics for humans, and she’s convinced that a lot of health conditions from irritable bowel syndrome to allergies can improve by taking acidophilus, eating lots of yogurt and generally encouraging the growth of healthy bacteria in the gut. So I am pretty confident our dear bunnies are going to have to make fewer trips to their vet now that we’ve finally figured out a way to get probiotics for rabbits into their little tummies. You can't just feed your bunnies anything as they don't have the enzymes to process certain food types. An excellent example of this would be most vegetables which rabbits can not produce the enzyme to help them digest; they will pass through them. Benebac is a type of probiotics that several members here are using with their bunnies. It’s a powder that you sprinkle over food (wet greens). It’d not be bad to give to both your rabbits. The British rabbit vet Molly Varga, author of the 2nd edition of the Textbook Of Rabbit Medicine says yes to giving probiotics to rabbits, they can’t harm.After that failure, we tried Florentero tablets. These are the size of products that you would probably feed a horse, and — especially since Priscilla doesn’t have any incisors — we had to break off small portions and pulverize them in a mortar and pestle before trying to feed her. Again — no way. Whatever is in them, it’s a flavor our bunnies just won’t eat. On the contrary, it must be taken also into consideration the possibility of an antagonistic effect of the microorganisms employed. About this eventuality, El-Badawi et al. [ 40] reported a negative association between Bacillus subtilis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The authors tested the bacteria alone (0.1% of bacterial dry media of 3 × 10 7 CFU/g, Enviva PRO, Dupont, USA) and the yeast (0.1% of dry live yeast of 10 8 CFU/g, RUMI YEAST Sc47, Neovia, France) along with their mix (0.05%, respectively) in comparison to a control diet in 8-week-old New Zealand White rabbits for 10 weeks. The results of the FCR highlighted that the rabbits fed the mix of microorganisms did not differ from the control, whereas the employment of the two probiotics alone increased it. Similarly, digestion coefficients of most measured nutrients (dry matter, organic matter, crude protein, and nitrogen-free extract) were higher in rabbits fed the two diets with the single cell type than their mix and the control (mix similar to control) [ 40]. Probiotics are given by mouth in the form of a capsule, powder, chewable tablet, or liquid. Give with a meal. Measure liquid forms carefully. These little guys have a different gut flora that's easily imbalanced by certain antibiotics. Antibiotics in the penicillin family (including amoxicillin), ampicillin, lincomycin, vancomycin, and clindamycin are most likely to cause digestive upset and have the highest rate of causing a fatal reaction. These medicines are known for causing an overgrowth of the bacteria Clostridia. Clostridial species of bacteria in turn create potentially life-threatening toxins that are absorbed by the GI tract (enterotoxaemia).

A detailed list of rabbit-safe medicine and proper doses of each one is something that every rabbit owner needs! While there are many such lists on the internet, we have gone the extra mile to offer you the most comprehensive list possible. Attention must be taken to the correct time of administration and also in relation to the probiotic activities and amounts. Optimisation of the microbiota composition leads to an increase in digestive efficiency, directly improving nutrient digestibility and stimulating immune processes, increasing the profitability of production. The bacterial pathogen, enterohemorrhagic E. coli, was previously isolated from clinically infected rabbits developing acute diarrhea and stored by the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory at Shandong Agricultural University. Screening for Probiotic Properties In Vitro Artificial Gastric Juice, Intestinal Juice, and Bile Salt Tolerance As well as that I’d rather feed something that he’s willing to eat himself, as force feeding him will only result in him despising me (I don’t think I’ve ever really been fully forgiven for the last time I syringe fed him something!)The microbiota, represented by a great number of microbial agents which colonise specific ecological niches, contribute to the health status of the gastrointestinal tract due to its multiple functions. We usually mix a teaspoon of them with the 1/8 cup of Oxbow Bunny Basics with Timothy she gets every other day. The good news is that she and her partner, Ryan, love the flavor. They are as crazy for them as they are for their pellets. I think if we gave Priscilla all the pellets she wanted, she’d explode like the fat guy in the Monty Python sketch. But don’t worry. We are pretty strict about limiting our big girl to only 1/4 cup per day. Innovation Center for the Origin and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Taishan Medical University, Tai’an City, China To describe the mechanism of action of probiotics, non-specific terms are generally used. To indicate biological effects of probiotics, authors report terms such as colonisation resistance or competitive exclusion. However, probiotic microorganisms might be able to control commensal and/or pathogenic ones, neutralising the toxic effect of pathogens, increasing the host’s defences from the immune system, and showing antioxidant activity [ 12, 21, 22]. The cecal contents bacterial DNA of each sample was extracted using HiPure Stool DNA Kit B (Magen, Shanghai, China) following the manufacturer’s instructions. The DNA extractions were quantified by ultraviolet spectroscopy and amplified using universal primers of 341F (CCTACGGGNGGCWGCAG) and 806R (GGACTACHVGGGTATCTAAT) to target the V3–V4 domain of bacterial 16S rRNA. The amplicons were normalized, pooled, and sequenced on the Illumina GAIIx platform.