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Faeces Burns! Help!

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Hi guys!
Basically my elderly girl has started to sit in her urine and faeces, my three other guinea pigs in their hutch have no burns or anything. She has started to get swollen feet pads with scabs on, and burns on her tummy. We have tried everything, we did a thorough disinfect of the hutch, obviously it gets cleaned out and sprayed every day, I have bathed her, soaked the burns in hibi-scrub, and then put rodent antiseptic cream on the burns and blisters.

Does anyone know what else I can do? I hate seeing her like this, she's such a happy piggy! She's still acting like her normal self and let's me touch the burns showing no signs of discomfort! Please help! Thank you!
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Poor girl, that looks sore. For urine scald I would usually recommend a barrier cream like Bepanthen or Sudocrem. However, she needs to see a vet to establish why she is leaking urine and why she is not moving about. Has she seen a vet at all?

My thoughts would be a UTI, stones or ovarian cysts but it could be down to old age.

As for her feet, that looks incredibly painful and so she needs pain relief as a priority. For Bumblefoot I usually recommend bathing in Hibiscrub which you are already doing and I also recommend a Steroid cream called Zymox but I think you need to see what your vet recommends.

Bumblefoot can also be linked to circulatory issues like a heart condition and so this is something your vet needs to consider and may also explain why she is not moving about. How is her breathing? is it laboured at all? does she cough randomly or hoot? Has she ever had recurring respiratory infections?

Another cause of Bumblefoot is a compromised immune system.

It is difficult to say which issue could be causing which symptom, but a vet visit is needed as soon as possible.
 
Thank you so much for your reply, I will definitely get her to a vet asap! She's my whole world! She has had one respiratory infection when she first came to us, the vet said this was down to a change in environment, but has been fine since. She coughs when she eats, I thought she was eating too fast!

Her faeces are an odd shape and are not properly formed.

But I will definitely get her to my vet and see what is going on! Thank you so much!
 
She may also need antibiotics if her feet are infected, in which càse please ask for probiotics too and give them at least an hour after the antibiotics.

Also if you can change her onto vetbed that would help too as it will wick away the urine to whatever you place underneath it (newspaper, towels, incontinence pads).
 
She saw the vets today, has been given anti-inflammatory, and antibiotics, he said to carry on with what I'm doing bathing wise. He diagnosed a urinary tract infection.
 
What antibiotics have you been given and what did he say about her feet?
 
Baytril is the name of the antibiotic, and for her feet to carry on what I'm doing daily and use a barrier cream with more softer bedding for her. He said all in all her health is perfect, the bumble foot is from her not realising she's leaking little bits of urine (due to infection). She's already moving around a lot more, thanks so much for your help!
 
That makes sense.

Are you giving probiotics aswell as the Baytril?
 
I am really confused as to why a UTI would cause such bad urine scalds? I unfortunately think it's something more than that :( - hopefully not though, I am wishing your piggie well xx
 
He said at this time probiotics aren't necessary, he would rather see how the antibiotics given are first of all.

Yes, he also said that it could be how her skin is becoming due to her age, e.g. how soft it is. So we are giving much softer bedding for her.
 
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