Rabbit with swollen mouth! *Abscess: anyone know how to drain?*

Unfortunately, I don't have any ideas for treatments that don't require a trip to the vet. If it really is an abscess it will take a long time to heal and probably won't get better without veterinary treatment. In my experience, rabbits with abscesses don't do well and any antibiotics that you can get OTC are going to be far too weak to have any effect. Most commonly, the rabbits I've seen that have been able to recover from an abscess, particularly an oral abscess, have had to undergo surgery to clean out as much of the infection as possible and have slow-release antibiotic beads implanted at the site of the abscess. I just wanted to tell you not to stress your rabbit trying to look at teeth that you have no real chance of seeing without special equipment.

The other thing that comes to mind with the description of the weepy eye is a blocked nasolacrimal duct. That's the tear duct in the medial corner of the eye. If the lump is closer to the eye than the nose, that could be it. Usually my vet treats those with manual flushing of the duct (I don't know that you would be able to get the equipment to do that at home, plus it involves numbing the eye so that it doesn't hurt) and antibiotic eye ointment. But usually blocked ducts just display excessive eye drainage, I've never seen one that had a quarter size lump associated with the blockage.
 
So, I tried to rinse her mouth with water, but I couldn't get the syringe in. I settled for putting the salt solution a her water dish, with an extra bottle of fresh water. She seems to be favoring the left side of her mouth while she eats. I am going to buy some antibiotic tomoorw, and I was wondering what pennecillin would do. Thanks for the help!
 
Honestly, you need to get her to a vet. Antibiotics won't help if she has a broken tooth or other problem.
 
I would really avoid penicillin unless you have directions from a vet who knows what they are doing with rabbits. I do know that Amoxicillin will KILL a rabbit or guinea pig, and I have seen the vet at the local shelter prescribe amoxicillin because they didn't know any better (and yes, the rabbit did die because of that vet's error).
 
Okay, so I bought some tetracycline and put some in my rabbit's water, enough powder to fill the very tip of a teaspoon. She has been drinking it, but I am afraid of the antibiotic disrupting her gut, so I am going to give her a little yogurt with molasses. Either I am getting used to the bump, or it is getting smaller, but it seems to be a little farther from her eye. If it is really an abscess, I am most worried about what will happen when it ruptures. It is in her mouth, so I won't be able to clean it.
 
No, that doesn't really sound normal for an abscess. Abscesses may get larger, but they generally don't migrate. They just incorporate new areas as they grow. Could you maybe post a picture so that we could see what it looks like?
 

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