Mad Bunster
Mama Doe
Hi everyone,
Need to pick a few RU brains please! Maddie, my bun with osteomyellitis, has a huge patch of dry skin on her back and its falling out in thick clumps, taking all her fur with it. It started out as a bald patch with flakey skin, but now the fur has regrown yet the skin keeps falling off. The area where the fur is falling out is growing and spreading down her sides now.
The vet says it looks a classic case of mites, but there are none to be seen on skin scrapings? (Had 2 lots done now)
I think it may be from her penicillin injections shes been having for her jaw abscesses.... but the irritation is in places where I've never injected :? Could injections do this to her, and what can we do about it?
I've stopped the injections now as I don't feel it was fair to introduce this problem on top of everything else... but its not improving (been 3 weeks now).
Any ideas please???
Thanks!
MB
Need to pick a few RU brains please! Maddie, my bun with osteomyellitis, has a huge patch of dry skin on her back and its falling out in thick clumps, taking all her fur with it. It started out as a bald patch with flakey skin, but now the fur has regrown yet the skin keeps falling off. The area where the fur is falling out is growing and spreading down her sides now.
The vet says it looks a classic case of mites, but there are none to be seen on skin scrapings? (Had 2 lots done now)
I think it may be from her penicillin injections shes been having for her jaw abscesses.... but the irritation is in places where I've never injected :? Could injections do this to her, and what can we do about it?
I've stopped the injections now as I don't feel it was fair to introduce this problem on top of everything else... but its not improving (been 3 weeks now).
Any ideas please???
Thanks!
MB