Poorly degu, can anyone help?

Back to the vets with him pronto!

Bar chewing can cause many problems with the mouth on any small animal so I would be getting the vet to check inside his mouth to see if there are further problems.

When one of our gerbils has a fit (he's epileptic!), he finds it difficult to eat and drink we offer cut up grapes as they provide fluid and food.

Thanks Raef, he's always chewed like that and he's nearly 4 now. We questioned Hs mum again last night and asked if she's noticed him chewing and she said not once. We would have had him to the vet sooner if we'd known he'd been like it for a fortnight but she told us he'd been fine (she knows that's not normalk for him, she comes over twice a week!). Think I'm just making myself worse, so cross and upset.

Unfortunately I can't give him anything like grapes as they can't have fruit. They cant have anything with sugar but I might try him with a bowl of water later in case the drip bottles hurting his mouth...and back to the vet again ☹️

Shows I've never had degu's then! ?

Do you have a syringe to administer the meds? Offer him water through that if so.

Just found this forum which might be worth a look round: /

Hope he's feeling better soon