Guinea pig with dry skin? Fungal infection? Mites?
My guinea pig has a patch of what looks like dry skin on her right ear. I haven’t really noticed her scratching at it, but it never seems to get better. Anyone have any ideas of what this could be? My husband tried putting a small amount of hand creme on it to see if it would help and it just looked really red and sore the next day so we won’t try that again. I’ve looked up some information online and saw that they can get mites and fungal infections, but what Piglet has looks nothing like the pictures of those - as it doesn’t seem to be that pronounced yet. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
My guinea pigs get dry skin all the time. If your house is warm and you want to dare give him a bath in oatmeal bath you can, then use oatmeal conditioner. You can also use a spray leave in conditioner on them, it works really well, or if you can find silicone spray it works well too. Good Luck!
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Piggies do get dry skin, and the oatmeal bath is a brilliant idea that really works….however, our precious piggies CAN carry the fungus that causes ringworm, so you might ought to go get a simple skin scraping at the vet to find out. I found this out first-hand when my daughter contracted ringworm on her arm.