myrabbitbunnies
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Further to this post - http://www.rabbitsonline.net/view_topic.php?id=64121&forum_id=16
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The rabbit has had this skin disease for about a year, has seen 3 different vets (first two were clueless, 3rd new vet seems to be trying different treatments but is stumped).
Shes been on 3 types of anti biotics with no success. What happens is her skin will go very red and very hot (even though it's 15c outside approx) the next day it'll go cracked and extreamly dry then the flakes turn yellow and slowly fall off after a week leaving soft healthy skin. The cycle then repeats itself.
Shes happy running around, eating and drinking LOADS but has lost some weight. A steroid injection helps pick her back up but the vets wont give it to her on a weekly basis for obvious reasons.
She has had skin biopsys that came back clear and is now booked in to have a blood test and an xray to find out what it is. The skin under her fur is fine, it's only the exposed skin mainly.
She is clear of mites and had panemic injections the last few weeks. We put bunny friendly aloevera cream on every day but it doesnt seem to do much.
Finally she is limping on her back foot as she has a large swelling that wont go down even with 4 weeks of antibiotics.
So does anyone else have any clue?
(We've determinted it's 99% unlikely to be an allergy, mites, ringworm, mange etc)
http://myrabbitbunnies.com/images/pika2.jpg
http://myrabbitbunnies.com/images/pika4.jpg
The rabbit has had this skin disease for about a year, has seen 3 different vets (first two were clueless, 3rd new vet seems to be trying different treatments but is stumped).
Shes been on 3 types of anti biotics with no success. What happens is her skin will go very red and very hot (even though it's 15c outside approx) the next day it'll go cracked and extreamly dry then the flakes turn yellow and slowly fall off after a week leaving soft healthy skin. The cycle then repeats itself.
Shes happy running around, eating and drinking LOADS but has lost some weight. A steroid injection helps pick her back up but the vets wont give it to her on a weekly basis for obvious reasons.
She has had skin biopsys that came back clear and is now booked in to have a blood test and an xray to find out what it is. The skin under her fur is fine, it's only the exposed skin mainly.
She is clear of mites and had panemic injections the last few weeks. We put bunny friendly aloevera cream on every day but it doesnt seem to do much.
Finally she is limping on her back foot as she has a large swelling that wont go down even with 4 weeks of antibiotics.
So does anyone else have any clue?
(We've determinted it's 99% unlikely to be an allergy, mites, ringworm, mange etc)