Genitalia ulcers from Urine/calcium sludge

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Sue Mamma

Post   » Sun Jan 05, 2025 6:07 pm


Hi All,
Can anyone advise how safely to help heal genital ulcers our 6 year old girl has from urine scalding. This is due to ongoing calcium sludge making her urinate all the time and staying wet. Our vet has been treating the bladder and already removed a stone but now the sludge is back and causing deep ulcers.
Can we use Cicatrin powder? Any help please please as our girl is a darling and if these dont heal our vet has suggested the unthinkable of PTS.
Currently using baby ointment to try stop the sores getting worse.
Any advice be most grateful. My husband and I have been rescuing g.pigs for many years but not had this problem.

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Lynx
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Post   » Sun Jan 05, 2025 6:44 pm


I am sorry to hear your girl is having these issues.

Have you read:
https://www.guinealynx.info/urine_scald.html

Good advice on that page! I am surprised the baby ointment is not helping her. What product are you using? What are the additives?

SardonicSmile

Post   » Mon Jan 06, 2025 6:42 am


I am using a baby ointment with zinc oxide and no perfume for my guineapig with bladder issues and a wet belly. Maybe your piggie reacts to one of the ingredients in the ointment you are using, hence it not working as you would like it to?

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Lynx
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Post   » Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:06 am


Ditto SardonicSmile.

Zinc oxide adheres very well. In humans, Vaseline is used to protect open wounds and enable regrowth of skin and healing (example: surgical removal of basal cell carcinoma). It also requires bandaging so the Vaseline does not come off. That location, it would be very difficult to get a bandage to stick on a guinea pig.

Talishan
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Post   » Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:33 pm


See if you can get silver sulfadiazene cream -- one brand name in the US is Silvadene. In the US it's supposed to be Rx only, but there are reliable online sources for it without a prescription. Your vet should be able to get it.

This was originally developed for burn patients, and that's what urine scald really is -- a kind of burn. It has antimicrobial properties as well, but does not contain a hazardous antibiotic and won't hurt her if she licks a bit of it. We've used it very successfully with ours.

It doesn't take much -- a very thin film of it should help.

Very best wishes and blessings to her and to you.

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ItsaZoo
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Post   » Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:59 pm


That’s a good idea Talishan! My mom was prescribed an ointment like that for psoriasis on her legs caused by edema. It was anti microbial, protected against moisture when she showered, and really helped heal her skin.

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Sef
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Post   » Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:32 pm


If you have a source, can you let us know Talishan? It has been a while since I last purchased Silvadene, and it now seems much harder to come by. A few sellers on eBay still occasionally offer it, but it's not cheap.

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Lynx
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Post   » Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:22 am


I checked where I got my silvadene for my chicken. It was in 2020 and the website now is only available for professionals :-(

Talishan
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Post   » Tue Jan 21, 2025 11:59 am


The site I used for years is now Rx only (just checked).

:-(

Do ask your vet about it. Our vets have always been pretty liberal about it in the past -- it's a very benign med/cream. It'll be more expensive (of course) through a vet, but they should be open to selling it to you.

It's worked wonderfully for us.

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