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Edward is approx four years old. He has always been fit and healthy and is eating and drinking well. No weight loss. We have been away over the weekend and he was card for by my older son. When we got him out tonight for his usual cuddles we noticed a large area of hair loss. It is approx the size of a fifty pence. It is a solid hard lump with white scabiness and areas which are weepping. It has gone from no evidence of anything to this in three days! It is above his right leg area. I am taking him to the vets tomorrow but any thoughts would be great.
 

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Edward was taken to the vets this morning by my mum, as I was teaching all day and then had a meeting at the end of the day. The vet states it is ringworm and has give baytril and canesten cream. He took cultures which will be developed then will decide if he needs any more meds. However he said he can stay in with my other piggy! I was going to separate them. They have only been bonded a couple of months! Any advice on treatment?
 
I would use Imaverol dips, here is the link:

http://www.hyperdrug.co.uk/Enilconazole-100mg_ml-100ml/productinfo/ENILCON/

The instructions say to dip every 3 days, but I tend to dip once a week following advice from someone I know who has done a vast amount of research on fungal. If you can get your vet to prescribe an oral medication like Itrafungol it would be good. I would also follow the hygiene guidelines in the link I posted earlier too.

I personally would not separate as he has already been exposed to the spores but I would dip them both.
 
I will leave others to advise on separating as you have boars and I don't have experience in fungal in a pair of boars but whether you separate or not I would dip them both. You need the elinconazole dip sold by Hyperdrug as that is licensed for guinea pigs. I can highly recommend the dipping as effective (alongside other meds).

Buy yourself the F10 handgel which is anti fungal and should help stop you catching the ringworm.
 
hollsterM said:
Edward was taken to the vets this morning by my mum, as I was teaching all day and then had a meeting at the end of the day. The vet states it is ringworm and has give baytril and canesten cream. He took cultures which will be developed then will decide if he needs any more meds. However he said he can stay in with my other piggy! I was going to separate them. They have only been bonded a couple of months! Any advice on treatment?
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They can stay together as long as you give the companion a fungal bath or dip at the beginning and at the end of the treatment; more if the companion has health issues or is stressed (i.e. has a lowered immune system). This prevents any latent infection from breaking out, whether he is already infected or catches it during the treatment period.

Separating an infected piggy is important as soon as you are dealing with a whole group or several groups time sharing roaming space. If you are dealing with a nervous ringworm piggy that can't cope well with separation, a new bond or one has health issues/is fragile, then you have to balance those needs against the benefits of separation and straight forward treatment.

You can find our recommendations on treatment and hygiene (including disinfectants that are also effective against ringworm spores) in our ringworm thread that @helen105281 has already given you.
http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/ringworm-hygiene-and-pictures.115402/
 
Hi, I'm sorry to hear this :( my 3 boys had ringworm as babies (i unknowinly brought them ill) are you seeing a exotic vet? My vet is and she put my boys on oral itrafungol, and two types of F10 one was a disinfectant to clean their hutch with I had to thoughly clean them out every day and spray everything in it eg bottles tunnels etc, the other I had to make up with water and spray all over my boys each day. You need to thougly wash your hands after handling your piggies with the hand gel piggysmitten said about and if poss don't let anyone else handle or touch them until they are better. Also ringworm is in the hair follicle so by cuddling them you could catch ringworm too we did :(
If I can be of any support let me know. I have a thread about my horrid ringworm on here somewhere if you fancied a read :) .....I'm no good at adding links sorry.
Kell.
 
Ooh was I supposed to use the hand gel as soap? I used it "dry" like you do anti bacterial hand gel. Oh well - it worked anyway!
 
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