Right, this might be long so I apologise in advance but I thought it would help to write everything down!
When I got my male he had wounds from fighting with his previous cage mate. His face ones were still open but the big ones on his side were healing fine.
Got him home, moved him onto carefresh (he was on something that looked like gravel :? ) his face ones healed but the big ones opened up again and got infected.
Took him to the vets and he had a dose of spot on (he had more in the weeks after to finish the course which did help stop him scratching as much) and they gave us baytril. While he was having the baytril he stayed in the part of his cage that only has fleece and started healing again but when he went back onto the carefresh it all flared up again!
I got rid of the carefresh and took him back to the vets. They gave more baytril and intrasite gel. He HATED the gel as did we, it wouldn't spread properly and made him scratch like mad. We stopped using it and used sudocream instead which he didn't mind as much.
We've now stopped that and he's finished the baytil, the problem is he's still healing and it's taking ages. There's no infection and it definitely is healing, he has fur growing back and everything but he still scratches a little which messes up the process again, I know once they start it's very hard for them to stop.
The smaller wound was almost gone but over one night he must have had a mad scratching spree as when I woke up it was open again and had gotten bigger!
What I want to know is if there's anything I can do to help him heal faster that doesn't involve putting anything on the wound as even though he liked the sudocream it still made him scratch more than leaving him alone does.
I bought some of those tesco anti allergy tablets with loratadine but I'm not sure how to use them. I thought they would be worth a try to try and stop the scratching even if it only stops a little bit more of it. He weighs about 33g.
Thanks in advance. I've probably missed something out.. if there's anything else you need to know just ask!
When I got my male he had wounds from fighting with his previous cage mate. His face ones were still open but the big ones on his side were healing fine.
Got him home, moved him onto carefresh (he was on something that looked like gravel :? ) his face ones healed but the big ones opened up again and got infected.
Took him to the vets and he had a dose of spot on (he had more in the weeks after to finish the course which did help stop him scratching as much) and they gave us baytril. While he was having the baytril he stayed in the part of his cage that only has fleece and started healing again but when he went back onto the carefresh it all flared up again!
I got rid of the carefresh and took him back to the vets. They gave more baytril and intrasite gel. He HATED the gel as did we, it wouldn't spread properly and made him scratch like mad. We stopped using it and used sudocream instead which he didn't mind as much.
We've now stopped that and he's finished the baytil, the problem is he's still healing and it's taking ages. There's no infection and it definitely is healing, he has fur growing back and everything but he still scratches a little which messes up the process again, I know once they start it's very hard for them to stop.
The smaller wound was almost gone but over one night he must have had a mad scratching spree as when I woke up it was open again and had gotten bigger!
What I want to know is if there's anything I can do to help him heal faster that doesn't involve putting anything on the wound as even though he liked the sudocream it still made him scratch more than leaving him alone does.
I bought some of those tesco anti allergy tablets with loratadine but I'm not sure how to use them. I thought they would be worth a try to try and stop the scratching even if it only stops a little bit more of it. He weighs about 33g.
Thanks in advance. I've probably missed something out.. if there's anything else you need to know just ask!
Out of all the mice I've had to medicate (and Kallan will tell you there have been more than a few) only one refused to take his meds that way and he was a really jumpy little boy that hadn't been handled at all and I'd only had him one day. If you put a tiny drop of water on the biscuit so that it goes slightly soggy then crush the tablet on top it will stop any of it falling off. If he won't eat the soggy biscuit you can still put use it dry but put the crushed tablets on the broken side of the biscuit so that it has something to hold it in place. Try to make the bit of biscuit as small as possible to make sure that he eats it all in one go to get the benefit of his meds! My mice see biscuit as the perks of falling ill. Failing that a little dab of jam or honey seems to work with mine as well.
