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Guinea Losing Hair

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Can someone help with identifying my guineas condition? He has long hair but I cant get rid of these dry spots on his skin that make him lose hair on those spots. It looks like human dandruff. I feed him everyday with Supreme Science selective food so he will eat all of his food and also timothy hay. I give him vitamin c in his water and spot clean his cage everyday and full clean every week. Any help will be appreciated greatly!
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Hello. Welcome to the forum. Your guinea pig needs to see a vet. If you wish to give your guinea pig vitamin c then the best way is through tablets. Adding it to water dilutes it so much that the piggy does not get the correct dose.
 
I agree with Piggyfan, he needs a vet for a proper diagnosis but that looks fungal to me, especially with the scurf on the end of the hair. I recommend treating with Imaverol dips but see what the vet says first. Please note that if the vet suggests a culture most types of fungal won't show up, only Ringworm which I don't think this is.
 
Hello :wel: To the forum.

To me that looks like it is fungal. You really need to get to a vet to have it diagnosed and get the correct treatment. It will be uncomfortable for your guinea. Any others will possibly need treating too .
 
Take your guinea pig to the vet for a proper diagnosis, but it could be a result of dry skin or a fungal. How often do you bathe them?
 
I and my GP Salvatore have been through the exact same thing in the past two weeks. My vet agrees with me and the others here, that it is a fungus infection, but probably not ringworm. We discussed giving him itrafungol (we do have that here), but because of the expense of the medicine, my vet suggested that I simply continue with what I am doing, which is bathing Sal and, while he is still damp, rubbing in a liquid mixture of water, hypoallergenic lotion (for the dryness) and clotrimazole (for the fungus). If I do this on a regular basis Sal's hair grows back and the flakiness stops and he has no itching. We don't have a great deal of the guinea pig medicines over here that you have there, nor do we have the cavy savvy doctors.
Regardless of what I say, you need to follow the suggestion others here have mentioned of taking the little guy to a veterinarian. I hope he gets better real soon.
 
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