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well since the vet told us that Suki's sore was an infected bite wound and 'treated' her, it has become much larger and her entire left back foot has become scaly! We took her to another vets and they prescribed us fuciderm gel, enroflaxin oral medicine and chlorhex scrub. They also recommended i continue to keep her seperate from the other girls as i have been doing. Has anyone else been prescribed these medicines and how well did they work. I hope they do work well and Suki has a checkup appointment two weeks from today so hopefully she will be better by then :(
 
Hi Annaliese,

It sounds like it could be a fungal problem, the scaly skin is perhaps the biggest suggestion of this.

Fuciderm Gel contains the antibiotic fusidic acid, but I have no experience of using it. I know it is used to treat things like athlete's foot in humans though so may be effective against fungus.

Enrofloxacin is Baytril. Chlorhexidine scrub is more of an antiseptic solution, it would generally be used diluted at a ratio of 1 part Chlorhexidine to 10 parts water, and the foot would be soaked in it for a few minutes.
 
Thanks Laura your a gem :) hopefully she'll be all cleared up in no time... also how contagious is fungal infection as she has been in contact with the other girls before i took her out suspecting it was something a bit worse than a bite wound :\
 
No problem, I really hope the treatment does the trick. :)

There's not really any way to tell whether it is contagious unless a culture was taken from the skin and examined by the lab. I've had fungal pigs who don't pass the condition on, and I know of cases where a whole herd can become infected. However, it's worth considering in such a case if there is something environmental (e.g. hay or bedding) infecting each individual pig rather than the fungus passing from pig-to-pig.
 
ohmigod i never thought of that! We switched from our normal brand of hay just before she got it... could that be the cause of the problems?
 
It's possible...what brand are you now using? There's only a couple of brands that I trust to be mostly free from parasites/fungal spores, although that doesn't always stop me treating my pigs to different types of hay once in a while if I consider the hay quality to be good enough.

Fungal spores can live on the hay and bedding, but there are occasions where pinpointing the initial source of infection is just not possible. Warmer weather tends to lead to an increase in fungal and parasitic skin conditions too.
 
we got pets at homes own brand literally just this one time and it ran out last week so were back onto our normal 'my little friend meadow hay' but thats the only bedding change i can think of other than as you say the weather change :\
 
You may never know for sure, as you say the change in brand was just a one off. Hopefully you'll get little Suki sorted and she'll stay fungal-free. :)
 
lets hope so :D shes currently sulking with me :) but she'll soon realise its for her own good... shes just missing her girlies i think :(
 
I only have very limited experience with fuciderm gel. Vet has prescribed it once for one of my pigs a while back. She told me to apply it VERY sparingly which I did, but I felt it was too strong for the pig's skin and it seemed to irritate rather than heal. So perhaps just keep an eye on that. I'm ashamed to say I can't remember what it was actually prescribed for, it was so long ago. Just remember the reaction. x
 
i think its a antibiotic steriod cream not an anti fungal cream as such i know it can treat skin infections on humans too like impetigo which is a sort of herpeas virus a good anti fungal cream to use is canerstan HC this is a antifungal steriod cream so it treats the fungal and the steriod in it takes down the imflamation this can be brought from a phamacy for humans xx
 
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hi, fuciderm cream contains antibiotic and corticosteroid anti-inflammatory(betamethasone).usually used for skin problems like wet eczema.
you should always apply it sparingly(because of the steroid) :)
 
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