Anyway, tonight, she's poofy and flank breathing, but also noisy. Chest noisy for the first time ever, rather than her usual nasal noise. By ear she's grunty, with a stethoscope she's also very squeaky. Stethoscope to the front of her chest gets more noise than on either side, if that means anything to anyone!
Her coat is really thin and staring and she's also lost 40g in a week and a half. There's nothing to her, while before although no muscle tone for a while, there was at least substance/ padding
What does squeaky mean as specifically different to grunty? A part of me wants to say fluid, but I'm not sure if I'm making that up or not?!
Her upper resp. issues have responded to baytril/ doxy/ co-amox and meloxicam and sudafed in the past. She hasn't responded to Zithromax. In terms of AB options, is a lower resp. infection in an older (27 months) rat likely to be the infection moving around the tract, or something else?
with Daisy it was more the abs wern't doing much to help after a while and despite trying various combos her breathing was still very noisey, it was then suggested that her long term resp problems may have affected her heart and the fluid around her heart may have also been infected, hence the confusing array of chest sounds so we tried heart meds alongside various abs which seemed to do the trick. The steroids were used more for acute flareups to start with then as time went on she seemed to need them more often especially with the squeaky chest sounds, sometimes this was down to her having an acute resp flare up but twice the symptoms were due to her having pneumonia, fingers crossed it's not that with Norey 
