Hello1987
New Born Pup
One of my pigs have no hair around one of his eye. Not sure if he’s bitting around. Put a little of antibiotic cream. Showing a bit of skin. Other eye is fine. What could this be? He’s perfectly fine besides this.
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Eye issue.
- Thread starter Hello1987
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Hi and welcome
It is rather difficult to spot from your very fuzzy picture.
How long have you had your piggy? If you have bought your piggies within a month (US practice), you can reclaim any vet cost from your pet shop as part of your customer rights for having been sold damaged ware since the fungal spores have been highly likely picked up at the shop or the commercial supply mass breeder.
More information on your customer rights and the most common pitfalls with new guinea pigs here: New Guinea Pig Problems: Sexing & Pregnancy; URI, Ringworm & Parasites; Vet Checks & Customer Rights
It could be potentially ringworm, a highly contagious, species jumping fungal skin infection that can also affect humans. Good hygiene on all surfaces (cage and cage contents, your skin, the whole guinea pig body) in contact with a ringworm carrier is paramount on getting over it once and for all; as is treatment that kills the spores and prevents them from reinfection. Ringworm spores are invisibly tiny, are shed in their thousands in an acute outbreak and can stay live for around 2 years to cause a new infection. The time between infection and actual outbreak is 10-14 days.
Please NEVER treat skin infections on spec as you make a) a diagnosis very difficult and b) only make the problem worse and prolong it by using inadequate or completely wrong treatment. Creaming ringworm misses all the shed spores and simply allows them to cause new outbreaks in other parts of the body. It is a very inefficient and outdated method. Please be aware that your antibiotic cream won't work against a fungal skin infection nor any skin parasites.
Please follow the advice in this link to our very comprehensive Ringworm Care and Hygiene Guide here closely - it is the only way how you can get on top of ringworm in one go without turning it into a long running saga. We know that it really works: Ringworm: Hygiene, Care And Pictures
Hello
Please can you use the “attach files” at the bottom of the posting box to upload photos rather than posting links to external sites. I’ve deleted the link from your post.
Please can you use the “attach files” at the bottom of the posting box to upload photos rather than posting links to external sites. I’ve deleted the link from your post.
I’m also moving this post to your previous thread. Please would you keep to one thread as it makes it very difficult to keep and eye on posts.
Hello1987
New Born Pup
Tnoz
Teenage Guinea Pig
Has your piggie seen a vet?
Please have your piggy seen by a vet for diagnosis and the correct treatment. As Wiebke has said treating on spec can make things worse.
Creaming and shampooing isn’t the best way to deal with ringworm, if that is indeed what a vet diagnoses your piggy with
Creaming and shampooing isn’t the best way to deal with ringworm, if that is indeed what a vet diagnoses your piggy with
Siikibam
Senior Guinea Pig
And you also run the risk of catching it, if it is ringworm. Please have the piggy seen as soon as possible. I would also stop using the cream and shampoo. You have, in a way, wiped the ‘crime scene’ clean.Let us know how you get on.