Imaverol - should I rinse it out?

[amber89]

Hello,

My Pufu is suspect of a fungal infection and I was given Imaverol concentrate for cutaneous emulsion.
I was told to dilute it 1:50 and then rub it onto his skin.

Now, my question is, should I also rinse it out of his fur? If so, for how long should I leave it in, before I rinse? I read the packaging info, and didn't saw anything about rinsing it off.

Thanks!

 

[sport_billy]

Hello you leave it on you don’t rinse it off. Make sure it’s diluted correctly. Then apply topically we apply as with those cotton wall pads making sure the area is affected are soaked. Because are full to avoid getting it on the eyes etc...

 

[amber89]

Thanks!

 

[Wiebke]

You leave any fungal dip to dry on the skin. Dilute as to the product information. In imaverol that is 1 : 50 with water if I remember correctly.
Wrap your piggies up warmly and if necessary place on a half-heated warm but not hot snugglesafe well away from any drafts. Make sure that your piggies can move off if they are feeling too hot. if they are hutch piggies only move them outside again when they are fully dry.

Please always treat all piggies in contact with a ringworm piggy with a full body dip. Keep in mind that they can be already infected by spores because it takes 10-14 days between infection and outbreak. If you can stop the infection during that time, then you can prevent an outbreak. Do the same at the end with any companions that have been living with your infected piggy during the outbreak.
This also goes for you. A nizoral shampoo all body wash will do the trick for you.

Please make sure that you cover the whole body with it and not just only the bare areas.
- invisibly tiny spores are shed in their thousands during an acute outbreak. They often end up in the fur coat and can cause secondary patches of outbreak straight away or months later if not killed off by the dip.
- please keep in mind that the affected area around an acute patch is a lot larger than just the bald area. If that syringing these still haored areas can really get the imaverol down onto the skin to deal with the fungal that sits at the hair roots.
- please be extremely careful around the eyes, mouth/nose and ears. Imaverol can swell up an eye badly. Use a cotton but for gently dabbing on if you have an infected spot right next to the eye. It is one of the reasons why I very much prefer oral treatment if available - much easier to apply, less stressful and less risk of contagion...

In an acute outbreak, all affected hairs have to come out before it is over or you have to brace for a return. That is why ringworm is looking like it is getting worse before it gets better. Look at the pictures in the ringworm guide.

I hope that this helps you?

 

[amber89]

You leave any fungal dip to dry on the skin. Dilute as to the product information. In imaverol that is 1 : 50 with water if I remember correctly.
Wrap your piggies up warmly and if necessary place on a half-heated warm but not hot snugglesafe well away from any drafts. Make sure that your piggies can move off if they are feeling too hot. if they are hutch piggies only move them outside again when they are fully dry.

Please always treat all piggies in contact with a ringworm piggy with a full body dip. Keep in mind that they can be already infected by spores because it takes 10-14 days between infection and outbreak. If you can stop the infection during that time, then you can prevent an outbreak. Do the same at the end with any companions that have been living with your infected piggy during the outbreak.
This also goes for you. A nizoral all body wash will do the trick for you.

Please make sure that you cover the whole body with it and not just only the bare areas.
- invisibly tiny spores are shed in their thousands during an acute outbreak. They often end up in the fur coat and can cause secondary patches of outbreak straight away or months later if not killed off by the dip.
- please keep in mind that the affected area around an acute patch is a lot larger than just the bald area. If that syringing these still haored areas can really get the imaverol down onto the skin to deal with the fungal that sits at the hair roots.
- please be extremely careful around the eyes, mouth/nose and ears. Imaverol can swell up an eye badly. Use a cotton but for gently dabbing on if you have an infected spot right next to the eye. It is one of the reasons why I very much prefer oral treatment if available - much easier to apply, less stressful and less risk of contagion...

In an acute outbreak, all affected hairs have to come out before it is over or you have to brace for a return. That is why ringworm is looking like it is getting worse before it gets better. Look at the pictures in the ringworm guide.

I hope that this helps you?

Thanks Wiebke for the very detailed answer.

So far there are no bald patches on Pufu and the skin is not red/crusty. The only symptoms that i saw were a bit too much hair loss during the health checks and he seemed scratching a bit too often. Actually i went to the vet for a completely different reason, with him and one of his piggy-wifes, Cupcake.
The vet looked him up with the UV-lamp and he was glowing a bit, especially his bum and in between his toes. Under the UV-light Cupcake was not glowing at all, but of course, not all fungus glow. Also, the vet took some hair samples from Pufu from three different regions for a fungus culture, but i am pretty sure that it will come positive. Until the answer from the culture comes, she told me to already start "bathing" him with the solution and that, so far, it is not necessary to to the treatment also for the other two piggies that live with him.

Unfortunately i don't have a heating pad, but i will wrap him warmly in a dry towel and let him dry in the carrier. All of them are inside piggies and the room temperature is usually around 24 degrees and no drafts in their room.

The vet told me about oral medications for fungal infections. and generally i am very much in favor of them. The only option here for oral medication would be PROGRAM (Lufenuron). Unfortunately i lost a month ago a piggy due to toxicity from PROGRAM (probably a mixture of toxicity, un-safe dosage given by the vet and then bad handling of the toxicity) and i am very scared to administer it to Pufu also. I have changed the vet since then, but i am still having this weird feeling when thinking about PROGRAM and my piggies.

 

[Wiebke]

Thanks Wiebke for the very detailed answer.

So far there are no bald patches on Pufu and the skin is not red/crusty. The only symptoms that i saw were a bit too much hair loss during the health checks and he seemed scratching a bit too often. Actually i went to the vet for a completely different reason, with him and one of his piggy-wifes, Cupcake.
The vet looked him up with the UV-lamp and he was glowing a bit, especially his bum and in between his toes. Under the UV-light Cupcake was not glowing at all, but of course, not all fungus glow. Also, the vet took some hair samples from Pufu from three different regions for a fungus culture, but i am pretty sure that it will come positive. Until the answer from the culture comes, she told me to already start "bathing" him with the solution and that, so far, it is not necessary to to the treatment also for the other two piggies that live with him.

Unfortunately i don't have a heating pad, but i will wrap him warmly in a dry towel and let him dry in the carrier. All of them are inside piggies and the room temperature is usually around 24 degrees and no drafts in their room.

The vet told me about oral medications for fungal infections. and generally i am very much in favor of them. The only option here for oral medication would be PROGRAM (Lufenuron). Unfortunately i lost a month ago a piggy due to toxicity from PROGRAM (probably a mixture of toxicity, un-safe dosage given by the vet and then bad handling of the toxicity) and i am very scared to administer it to Pufu also. I have changed the vet since then, but i am still having this weird feeling when thinking about PROGRAM and my piggies.

I would strongly recommend to give your two other piggies an imeraverol bath within a week, too; ideally sooner just as a prevention.
Since you have caught it very early on, it will hopefully not get very far; just any affected spots will have to run their due course.

 

[amber89]

Ok. Thanks.
I will then also bath my other two

 

[amber89]

So, the test for a fungal infection came positive for Pufu. I am still keeping the Imaverol treatment, since I am way to scared of PROGRAM.

For the last 2 weeks I have been bathing Pufu with an Imaverol solution every 3 days. Last Sunday I have also bathed his 2 wifes with Imaverol. For the last 2 weeks all bedding has been washed 60 degrees, plus some hospital-grade disinfectant. Today finally I had the time to thoroughly wash and disinfect the whole living room, all furniture close to the cage, the whole cage, all wooden things, vacuum cleaning and spraying with hospital-grade disinfectant the carped and the couch. The only things that I was not able to disinfect are the books.

I was today also at the vet again to pick up more Imaverol (I was initially given only 20ml) and they have told me the following:
* I should be bathing only Pufu, and only the areas where the skin is not normal.
* We should separate him from his two wifes, Cupcake and Marshmallow for the duration of the treatment.
* If we see spots appearing also on the girls, then we should also wash those areas, but only those areas.
* Treatment should last for 4 weeks.

That's the part where I am feeling that it's contradictory to what @Wiebke told me. Should I wash the whole body, or just the affected areas?
On top of that I don't see any spots on Pufu's skin. I discovered the infection before he had an acute outbreak. How am I supposed to wash just the areas that are not normal, when I don't see anything abnormal?
Also, should I really separate Pufu from the girls? I mean, they have been together for a month already, whatever spores Pufu has, they are already on all of them.

Thanks