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A good way of translating such names is to use Wikipedia. Look up the name in English and then click on the Chinese language version of the article. These days this method is pretty useful and quick.

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I'm sorry about QingQing, Nancy.
Do you have antibiotic ointment to put on it? Sounds like she needs an antibiotic taken internally. Does Xi'an have a vet college? They'd give you better info, I bet.

Hope your bunny gets well soon!

cheers from Ruth

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Hi, Nancy - I have an English-Chinese list of many common antibiotics and other medicines. If you PM me I would be glad to email it to you.

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Do you know the name of medicine in English? I am major in Chinese medicine, maybe I can help you to translate them into Chinese.

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Thanks for the replies. I'll work on them now. The medicines are bicillin and Zithromax. I need to check and see what the technical name of bicillin is. Ruth is right, Qingqing needs an internal antibiotic. Externally everything looks fine, unless you notice the bump. Rabbits have thicker skin that dogs or cats, which is why their abscesses need to be treated differently.

!! Be warned that "students" who want to practice English with you may actually be scammers. In Shanghai they try the Tea Ceremony Scam. In Beijing it's the Art Student Scam. Be very wary if a stranger wants to speak English with you, especially if you are in a tourist area. !!

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bicillin is a kind of long efficiency penicillin, it's chinese name is ÜÐÐÇÇàùËØ, or ³¤Ð§ÇàùËØ×¢ÉäÒº in technical name, if you can't find it, other kind of penicillin(ÇàùËØ) is ok. Zithromax is a kind of azithromycin, it's name in chinese is Ï£ÃÀÊæ, there are some other band name, such as ÊæÃÀÌØ, Ì©Á¦ÌØ, their ingredient are same with Zithromax.

best regards

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Before I went on the great rabbit vet hunt this afternoon, I spent a half hour trying to get to wikipedia. And failed. I got the information from answers. com, but couldn't translate it. We saw a couple of vets this afternoon but had no luck. Then I got home and saw that #6 has saved the day! My student wrote down the characters and will try to buy the medicine tomorrow. I'm hoping that the school doctor, who lives above me, will give the injections.

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To find the Chinese names of medicines and such, just go to Google Advanced Search and search on the medicine's English name, and select Return Pages in Simplified Chinese option.

Search thus on Zithromax, for example and the first page will be this one, which you can print out and hand to the vet even if you don't understand Chinese:

click here

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Thanks 889, you learn something new every day!

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ah.

How to cure a rabbit.

get a pot and put him in it. add a few carrots and green vegetables, water.

cook for half an hour.

a vino cotti based sauce would be perfect.

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#10, ZHET's rabbit is VERY big and kute, but I don't we would like eating Qingqing. :(
Cheers!

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get a pot and put him in it. add a few carrots and green vegetables, water.

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Those veggies won't last long with my rabbit in that pot!

Or did you forget a step?

Thanks for sticking up for me and Qingqing, ellyse!

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ZHET's rabbit is VERY big and kute

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get all that fur off him and there won't be much rabbit left.

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Those veggies won't last long with my rabbit in that pot!

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Forgot the potatoes

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Or did you forget a step?

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That's the secret! Put the vegies inside the rabbit first!

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My student bought a certain kind of penicillin for me yesteday. We got a "doctor" at the tiny clinic across from the school to come over and give Qingqing the shot. You know the kind of clinic, there's a back room for getting IVs and in the front they sell medical things. It's not very clean, either. It took some convincing to get the young man to come over and give a shot, but my student did it. On a rabbit website I have seen how to give the shot myself, but I'm not sure I have that much confidence. Plus, it took both me and my student to hold her still for the injection. Even then, she wiggled free twice, so that it took three shots to get all the medicine in. Poor thing. In the US she probably would have surgery, but after seeing surgery on dogs at a vet's office a few days ago, I knew that I wouldn't let my bunny near the knife. Also, rabbits are different from dogs and cats and we haven't found a vet yet who has dealt with rabbits.

Qingqing is still eating and pooping ok, so that's good. Hopefully the penicillin will shrink or eliminate the abscess soon. So far she isn't in pain, thank goodness.

!! Be warned that "students" who want to practice English with you may actually be scammers. In Shanghai they try the Tea Ceremony Scam. In Beijing it's the Art Student Scam. Be very wary if a stranger wants to speak English with you, especially if you are in a tourist area. !!