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Fungal Infection.

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As some of you may know I've been treated my boys Bradley and Barney for a fungal infection as they both have flaky skin as well as scratching a lot. I've bathed them twice with Nizoral shampoo 5 days apart and although there has been a slight improvement they're still scratching themselves as well as having flaky skin.

The curious part is, the flaky skin is right near their glands, just above their bottoms! Above that they have hardly any flakes at all but it's near to their bums that it's the worse. Their glands are quite greasy and a bit dirty at the moment, could it be this that's causing them to scratch? Or do fungal infections only effect certain areas?

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Hi

Before treatment you should be sure that you have diagnosed correctly

If the skin is only dirty around the grease gland on their rump, then all you need to do is clean the gland with something like swarfega.

If the skin is flaky it could be fungal and if Nizoral has not worked then you may need to use something a bit stronger, have a Google for Sporal-D, its sold for horses but is the best option for fungal out breaks. The other thing that can give flaky skin is mites and some of the skin burrowing mites are not visible to the naked eye and are best treated with an oral application of Ivemect followed by regular anti-mite shampoos.

So you see its important to get the diagnosis correct before treatment commences.

Any chance you could post a photo of the infected area.

Regards

SGP
 
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