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I've just checked the girls and Tia had a piece of hair sticking straight up.
Just checked her and I have a suspicion she may have a fungal infection. She is very touchy and jumps if you touch a certain area of her back, on closer inspection she has a flaky, dry scabby looking patch and some of the hairs come out with skin attach when pulled.

going to book a vets appointment. What should i be expecting if it is fungal, what precautions do i need to take and what should i bed them on ? Also should i teay all four girls and do i need to separate them into the two separate cagea only provlem is they are both in my room.
Please help x
 
Have you checked them all over? Any on the others girls?

First of all good idea on vets trip to make sure its fungal not mites.... If it is fungal then Canestan cream worked a treat with Cookie, it was the Clotrimazole 1% stuff. We put this on twice a day and bathed once a week with Nizorol shampoo too. She cleared up in around 4 weeks and it didn't pass on to treacle thank goodness.

Let us know how Tia gets on
 
Just checked them all again, fiund a small patch on Esme's back, nothing i can see on Ruby (but she is a bit jumpy) and Rosie seems fine apart from her baldy belly.
Got an appointment for all of them at the exotics vets at 5pm. Dreading how much it will cost :-/ Did the vet prescribe the clotrimazole and nizoral or did you sneakily get them from a pharmacy? x
 
Rosie (vet) told us what to buy from pharmacy as it works out cheaper. Obviously in the chemist we didn't mention it was for pigs!
 
sport_billy said:
Rosie (vet) told us what to buy from pharmacy as it works out cheaper. Obviously in the chemist we didn't mention it was for pigs!
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Yeah, thought that would likely be the case. I work in a pharmacy and i know we can't sell medicines if we are told its for an animal. I will see what they say at the vets. Having never dealt with this before I don't really know if there is anything that shouldn't be given etc x
 
Good luck, you've caught it early so hopefully it'lll be gone in no time at all. Cuddles to Esme, Ruby, Tia and Rosie x
 
The vet thinks it vould possibly be fungal with Tia and Esme, Rosie still appears to only have mites no fungal and Ruby seems ok.

She is doing a culture of the skin and hair from Esme and Tia and from there will treat. She suggested if it is fungal we will use myconazole spray, cam you get this without prescription as it is 35pound from.the vets.
I have to ring up next week possibly mon more likely wed to get.results.


Everything always happens at once.
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Oh gosh what a shame. I really hope they get better and it does not spread. I have never experienced it but it sounds a nightmare.
 
Just read that last post back- sorry it didn't read very well and had tonnes of mistake. I did it quick before . my phone ran out of battery. Thoroughly cleaned the girls out with f10 and they are now on bed pads and newspaper and hay.
I been itching all night- be it psychological or because of the cleaning stuff I don't know, just hope I don't end up with ringworm :-/ A nice shower has sorted it out for now. I'm just hoping the treatment and recovery is not as difficult as I am expecting it to be x
 
ches is being treated for fungal at the moment. he is on terbinafine 0.2ml twice a day, and also lamisil cream aswell to apply to the ear twice a day. this is for four weeks. he also had a culture taken aswell. it's cleared up really quickly so far.

maisie hasn't got it even though she lives with ches so isn't being treated.
 
Heya my guinea pigs had ringworm and I was itching a lot but as far as I can see I have nothing and I didn't use F10 to clean them either so I probably had more chance of getting it thank you so just to say don't worry about the itching I think it's just a bit of paranoia haha It was with me :)
 
biscandmatt said:
ches is being treated for fungal at the moment. he is on terbinafine 0.2ml twice a day, and also lamisil cream aswell to apply to the ear twice a day. this is for four weeks. he also had a culture taken aswell. it's cleared up really quickly so far.

maisie hasn't got it even though she lives with ches so isn't being treated.
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Unfortunately, both Esme and Tia have a patch which is being cultured. Rosie's hair loss is definitely due to mites, but the vet was unsure if there was any fungal component to it and Ruby (touch-wood) seems unaffected.
The likelihood is if it is fungal we will have to treat the three of them, and maybe even Ruby, and hopefully it will clear up quickly.
I just don't know what has caused it all of a sudden, it is very frustrating.
 
Mum checked with the vet on Wednesday to see if anything had grown up, nothing as yet. They said to leave it until 14 days which is the usual incubation time, so won't know until Friday. In the meantime is it worth ordering so some gorgeous guineas shampoo? I have queried with Chrissie which ones are best for fungal, but not sure whether I should just wait until we have a proper diagnosis?

Is fungal like mites in which you shouldn't shampoo them whilst being treated or would it be best doing it sooner rather than later?
 
To be honest with you, Cookies fungal didn't grow in the Petra dish when they cultured it after the 2 weeks and our vet advised we treat with canesten anyway as it wouldn't harm.

Rosie advised us to bath once a week with the nizarol shampoo and canesten twice a day, it cleared after 3 weeks. Hope they all clear up soon
 
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To be honest with you, Cookies fungal didn't grow in the Petra dish when they cultured it after the 2 weeks and our vet advised we treat with canesten anyway as it wouldn't harm.

Rosie advised us to bath once a week with the nizarol shampoo and canesten twice a day, it cleared after 3 weeks. Hope they all clear up soon
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I'm also thinking this may be the case, but we will see. The vets have advised to ring on Mon/Tues again and obviously by Friday it will have been 2 weeks so we will know for definite if anything has grown.
Meanwhile, I have ordered some GG manuka and neem shampoo, coconeem melt and a small kwench lotion. The Manuka and neem shampoo and melt worked wonders on Rosie last time, she was a much happier piggy, just a shame Tia and Ruby hate being bathed.
 
The cultures can take ages sometimes & they're not always reliable so often vets will suggest treating anyway & seeing what happens. We are currently waiting on a culture for a patch on Bertie's nose that is being treated with fungicidal cream & seems to be responding. Expensive piggies rolleyes but of course we love them anyway :)
 
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