Pepino's Medical Thread, Starting with Mites
This was Pepino’s original medical thread, but he didn’t have a name then because I wasn’t sure I was gonna be able to keep him: viewtopic.php?p=2165516&highlight=boar#2165516
Lately he had been scratching, losing hair and not gaining weight so I took him to the vet. She said it didn’t look like mites because he wasn’t scratching at the moment and he didn’t shriek/seize when touched. She insisted on a skin scrape but agreed to treat for mites, even if the scrape showed none. Sure enough, it was mites. She treated him with Revolution and he is on Sulfamethoxazole for two weeks.
Since he has lost weight I have been feeding him extra to plump him up and feeding Patapsco extra to plump him up a little, too. Apparently Patapsco is more sensitive to overfeeding than Pepino and looked a little uncomfortable, however, I bought him some parsley, which he started to chow down on immediately.
Vet sez to call her in a week and treat him again with Revolution one month later.
As in Ciaytee’s case, it’s probably best to treat for mites, even if they don’t show up on the skin scrape: https://www.guinealynx.info/mites.html
Lately he had been scratching, losing hair and not gaining weight so I took him to the vet. She said it didn’t look like mites because he wasn’t scratching at the moment and he didn’t shriek/seize when touched. She insisted on a skin scrape but agreed to treat for mites, even if the scrape showed none. Sure enough, it was mites. She treated him with Revolution and he is on Sulfamethoxazole for two weeks.
Since he has lost weight I have been feeding him extra to plump him up and feeding Patapsco extra to plump him up a little, too. Apparently Patapsco is more sensitive to overfeeding than Pepino and looked a little uncomfortable, however, I bought him some parsley, which he started to chow down on immediately.
Vet sez to call her in a week and treat him again with Revolution one month later.
As in Ciaytee’s case, it’s probably best to treat for mites, even if they don’t show up on the skin scrape: https://www.guinealynx.info/mites.html
The LB's vet wanted to do skin scrapes but after the first one I wouldn't let him. I just got the premeasured Ivo and treated the nasty little things. Her vet finally stopped trying to scrape and just gave me what I asked for.
She always cleared up after 3 treatments. I believed in a bit of over-kill but it never harmed her.
She always cleared up after 3 treatments. I believed in a bit of over-kill but it never harmed her.