Rabbit Scabby and losing fur

[myrabbitbunnies]

Another update. We got from the pet shop an anti fungal spray for rabbits. It seemed to be doing the trick, her fur was growing back, skin was soft again and all going well. Then the other day she started limping on her back foot.

Took her to the vets, they said her joints are inflamed, possible from a fungus infection as she is also hotter than she should be but her skin problem could also be mites again. I think they really just want to make money out of us as it's clearly not mites anymore. They've given us a pain killer, some injections and antibiotics which in all cost £70. Since shes started having these antibiotics again shes started ripping her fur out and being wet underneath.

Starting to get really annoyed at all the different vets. The keep trying to give us the same expensive medicines that don't help her at all. Not going to give her any more of the stuff they've given us as it's clearly making her worse.

Thanks for the mange links, i'll check them out.

 

[Flick]

I urge you to contact the owners of Medirabbit.com. They have written the book "Skin Diseases of Rabbits". They are very good about answering emails and will help all they can. I suggest you put something like "Skin Disorder" in the subject line.

[email protected]

http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Skin_diseases/Skin_diseases_main.htm

Above is their web page listing different topics about skin disorders.

 

[Nancy McClelland]

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[myrabbitbunnies]

Thank you very much for the link. We've stopped the antibiotics for now and shes stopped wetting herself. Her skin has now stopped getting better but isn't getting worse either. So either this fungel spray has stopped working or it is mange. No Vet (1 normal and one with specialist rabbit vets) has suggested mange or fungel infections. Just keep wanting to give her £20 antibiotics on a weekly basis. Grr vets really don't care when they are driving audis around it seems.

 

[velveteen]

A similar thing happened to our bunny... but he just lost hair on his side. It started smaller and got bigger, lost hair and skin went scabby. He did not seem too fussed about it but used to lick it a lot. It kept getting worse, more hair loss and skin was looking puffier and scabbier... they put him on anti biotics and it cleared up. He is fine now.

Only thing vet put it down to was that he had his calici virus vaccination the week before and said it was a reaction to that. Normally it happens on spot of the needle, which would be on back/neck but vet stated that they have seen rabbits come in like ours..with unexplained hair loss/scabs.

Has your rabbit had any vaccinations?