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Chinchillas => Q & A => Topic started by: Squirrel_Butt on January 07, 2012, 08:34:11 PM

Title: choke or hiccup?
Post by: Squirrel_Butt on January 07, 2012, 08:34:11 PM

Tonight Raisin was drinking her water and all of a sudden she made a hiccup like sound. She then made sneeze sounds for a little bit. If it was in fact choking, is there anything I can do to prevent her from getting pneumonia?

Title: Re: choke or hiccup?
Post by: chinclub on January 09, 2012, 08:16:14 AM

Is this the same one that is having the eating issues?  If not it sounds like she might have just gotten water in/on her nose while she was drinking.

Title: Re: choke or hiccup?
Post by: Squirrel_Butt on January 09, 2012, 08:33:16 PM

No this is a different one. That's what the vet said too. How will I know if the water has entered her lungs?

Title: Re: choke or hiccup?
Post by: chinclub on January 10, 2012, 07:47:38 PM

I think she would have been having more coughing. 

Title: Re: choke or hiccup?
Post by: Squirrel_Butt on January 10, 2012, 07:49:44 PM

So far she is acting like her normal self.