Pain Management in Degus

Pocket Pet · Octodon degus · typical adult weight 0.17–0.30 kg

2 cited drugs treat Pain Management in degus: Butorphanol, Tramadol.

Multimodal analgesia spanning NSAIDs, opioids, local anaesthetics, NMDA antagonists (ketamine), α2 agonists, and adjuncts. Species safety matters: NSAIDs are unsafe in some reptiles, opioid receptor distributions differ in birds, and rabbits tolerate buprenorphine particularly well.

The overview above describes Pain Management across species; the citations below are the ExoticRx dose rules scoped to degus — a reference list, not new species-specific clinical guidance.

Butorphanol(Torbugesic, Torbutrol)

Analgesic

Route	Dose	Frequency	Indication	Evidence	Source
SC	5 mg/kg	once after surgery	postoperative pain treatment	Weak	Ikai Y, Nagura-Kato GA, Sakamoto SH, Shinohara A, Koshimoto C. Optimization of inhaled anesthesia for Octodon degus using electroencephalography. Exp Anim. 2025 Jan 10;74(1):93-103. doi:10.1538/expanim.24-0017. PMID: 39168618; PMCID: PMC11742480. URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11742480/

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Tramadol

Analgesic

Route	Dose	Frequency	Indication	Evidence	Source
SC	2 mg/kg	One hour before surgery	Pre-surgical analgesia for cesarean section	Weak	Correa LA, Espinoza A, Aleuy OA, Soto-Gamboa M. Cesarean surgery and ovariohysterectomy in a precocial rodent Octodon degus. Austral Journal of Veterinary Science. 2023;55:155-166. DOI: 10.4206/ajvs.553.01 URL: https://ajvs.cl/index.php/ajvs/article/download/281/206

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