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Constipative Mucoid Enteropathy – Rabbit (view source)
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A disease of weanlings previously referred to as mucoid enteritis, Rabbit Mucoid Enteropathy (RME), and now regarded as a dysautonomia analogous to grass sickness in horses and hares.
==Incidence==
Juveniles and weanlings 6 – 14 weeks of age but also reported by Whitwell (1997) up to 8 months old.
==Clinical Signs==
Some or all of:
*Depressed appetite gradually developing into anorexia
*Depression
*Pain
*Large bowel impaction
*Passage of mucus,
*Bilateral mydriasis,
*Dryness of mucous membranes and conjunctiva,
*Loss of anal tone,
*Bradycardia (<100 bpm)
*Urinary incontinence,
*Proprioceptive defects ,
*Caecal impaction
*Abdominal bloat
*Pneumonia
==Pathology==
*Distension/impaction of the small intestine
*Large bowel impaction
*Mucus in colon and rectum
*Variable microbiological isolations from gut contents, usually aerobic
*Coincident parasitological burden (Eimeria stiedae) (cholangitis)
==Histology==
*Polyganglionopathy with dying neurones, chromatolytic in mesenteric autonomic ganglia
*Chromatolytic changes also seen in the brain and spinal cord
*Neuronal vacuolation
==Treatment==
*Once the disease has been diagnosed treatment is usually pointless but oral fluids and supportive therapy, as detailed in the article on [[Diarrhoea – Rabbit|acute diarrhoea of the young, newly acquired rabbit]], may help.
[[Category:Digestive_Disorders_-_Rabbit]]
A disease of weanlings previously referred to as mucoid enteritis, Rabbit Mucoid Enteropathy (RME), and now regarded as a dysautonomia analogous to grass sickness in horses and hares.
==Incidence==
Juveniles and weanlings 6 – 14 weeks of age but also reported by Whitwell (1997) up to 8 months old.
==Clinical Signs==
Some or all of:
*Depressed appetite gradually developing into anorexia
*Depression
*Pain
*Large bowel impaction
*Passage of mucus,
*Bilateral mydriasis,
*Dryness of mucous membranes and conjunctiva,
*Loss of anal tone,
*Bradycardia (<100 bpm)
*Urinary incontinence,
*Proprioceptive defects ,
*Caecal impaction
*Abdominal bloat
*Pneumonia
==Pathology==
*Distension/impaction of the small intestine
*Large bowel impaction
*Mucus in colon and rectum
*Variable microbiological isolations from gut contents, usually aerobic
*Coincident parasitological burden (Eimeria stiedae) (cholangitis)
==Histology==
*Polyganglionopathy with dying neurones, chromatolytic in mesenteric autonomic ganglia
*Chromatolytic changes also seen in the brain and spinal cord
*Neuronal vacuolation
==Treatment==
*Once the disease has been diagnosed treatment is usually pointless but oral fluids and supportive therapy, as detailed in the article on [[Diarrhoea – Rabbit|acute diarrhoea of the young, newly acquired rabbit]], may help.
[[Category:Digestive_Disorders_-_Rabbit]]