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Bad week :(

I use the athletes foot powder, which the doctor recommended for me last year when I had ringworm, they said it was fine to use on the guineas so I did and it cleared up their ringworm in a month or two!
 
I understand you may not support it but have home treated many piggies for various reasons and they have all been fine, I'm not encouraging others to do it but it's always worked for me. This way instead of wasting money taking piggies to the vets for the vet to say they're fine when they're clearly not (has happened multiple times) I can use the vet fund for actual emergencies where there is no way of home treating :)
 
Get some anti fungal shampoo for her as well. It may well just help to clear the spores that are stubborn.

Fungal always get worse before it gets better. I just treated one of mine who had it on his tummy and it took 3.5 weeks to shift it.
 
Little Toff passed away this weekend. Like the others her death was sudden and unexpected, absolutely no signs of illness. She was only just over a year. Absolutely devasted. She was my special piggie, she loved people way more than other guineas and she'd come in the house and just chill like a dog.
So I split the piggies into groups, Toff was in the Avairy. She'd been trying to break out all day (chewing the bars) so she could free roam the garden. I'm thinking as she sat chewing the bars all day she could have possibly got heat stroke and collapsed.
4th piggie to pass away in a month. 3rd piggie to pass away with absolutely no sign of illness 💔
 
As for the others, 5 now have severe mange mites and are losing hair which they are being treated for, they are in a cage in the Pig house. 3 have ringworm, it is clearing up but every time one moves back into the Herd, I notice another one's got it! They are in a separate cage in the Pig house. And the remaining 10 pigs are in the Avairy.
The Pig house is being thoroughly disinfected once or twice a week all piggies are getting regular antifungal baths.
 
I appreciate you won’t like what I’m going to say but it is clear from your updates that things are getting worse not better.
I really do think that the time has come for you to take your piggies to the vets to get the correct treatment at the correct dosage for all the affected piggies. It’s all very well home treating but you have now lost several piggies for unexplained reasons and have a problem with mange mites and ringworm that has been going on for far too long. You know that the forum does not advocate home treating. This is the reason why. You are clearly not on top of the outbreak despite your best attempts. You need the correct treatment at the correct dosage and that means veterinary treatment and not OTC.
 
I understand you may not support it but have home treated many piggies for various reasons and they have all been fine, I'm not encouraging others to do it but it's always worked for me. This way instead of wasting money taking piggies to the vets for the vet to say they're fine when they're clearly not (has happened multiple times) I can use the vet fund for actual emergencies where there is no way of home treating :)

I’d say this many weeks on that it’s not a waste of money going to the vets but a necessity.
 
This way instead of wasting money taking piggies to the vets for the vet to say they're fine when they're clearly not (has happened multiple times) I can use the vet fund for actual emergencies where there is no way of home treating :)
After this amount of time and after the loss of your piggies this IS an emergency.
 
Your guinea pigs need a vet simple as.

Mange mites kills. I am sorry to be so blunt but I have seen horrific cases on here over the years.

Please seek specialist veterinarian treatment now.
 
🌟 Good update 🌟
Mange mites have totally cleared up, the piggies hair are growing back nicely :D
Ringworm has 99% cleared up - One piggie, Lola still has a small patch on her bum but it's clearing up :)
They all seem healthy and happy, and are all good weights. I've been weighing them weekly and fully disinfecting the Pig house weekly as well. So pleased it's finally getting better :luv:
 
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