zarathustra
Warren Scout
So, as I wrote in another thread it turns out that the terrible twosome (Frank & Spencer) had ringworm when we bought them home from Pets At Home, though it wasn’t visible at the time.
It presented as a small round bald patch with white silvery skin on Franks left ear and Spencer’s right ear.
Took them to the vets and got some oral meds to give them once a day for 2 weeks, along with daily cleaning and disinfecting of their hutch. We followed the instructions to the letter and took them back to the same vets, but saw a new vet as the last one we saw had left.
He then prescribed topical medication to be applied to the area twice a day for 2 weeks, which we have been doing, although the cleaning and disinfecting had to be changed to every other day due to work commitments and the fact we were burning through a lot of hay.
Both patches seem better, the skin looks healthy and fur is starting to re-grow, although of Spencer’s ear the skin looks grey, but as he is a Dutch I put this down to pigment of the skin where the fur is coming through.
I’m going to try to get them back in the vets this weekend as that will be three weeks since we started the topical meds.
My question is, I guess, when do you know when ringworm is gone? Is it when all the fur has grown back, or, just when the symptoms have all gone?
They never seemed to be bothered by the ringworm before they went to the vets (it was about 5 days between it presenting and getting an appointment) so they never scratched at it etc, so other than the skin looking healthy I’m not really sure what else to look for.
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It presented as a small round bald patch with white silvery skin on Franks left ear and Spencer’s right ear.
Took them to the vets and got some oral meds to give them once a day for 2 weeks, along with daily cleaning and disinfecting of their hutch. We followed the instructions to the letter and took them back to the same vets, but saw a new vet as the last one we saw had left.
He then prescribed topical medication to be applied to the area twice a day for 2 weeks, which we have been doing, although the cleaning and disinfecting had to be changed to every other day due to work commitments and the fact we were burning through a lot of hay.
Both patches seem better, the skin looks healthy and fur is starting to re-grow, although of Spencer’s ear the skin looks grey, but as he is a Dutch I put this down to pigment of the skin where the fur is coming through.
I’m going to try to get them back in the vets this weekend as that will be three weeks since we started the topical meds.
My question is, I guess, when do you know when ringworm is gone? Is it when all the fur has grown back, or, just when the symptoms have all gone?
They never seemed to be bothered by the ringworm before they went to the vets (it was about 5 days between it presenting and getting an appointment) so they never scratched at it etc, so other than the skin looking healthy I’m not really sure what else to look for.
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