Ear skin flake - dandruff - fungus????

[Duny]

Hello, I have 6 chins 3 males and 3 females. I think that their is a fungus arround, ringworm maybe. On chin has lost some fur at his nose., and another one has an eye problem like conjunctivitis.

Now, is fungus has any relationship with conjunctivitis?

Of course i quarantined both of them from the other. They are males both. I already cleaned and disinfectioned all the cages...hard work... and i must do it again...

I give Fuscidin Viscous eyes drops to the one with conjunctivitis, 2 times a day one drop.
I give to all chinchillas dust bath every day with powder inside that has Miconazole except the one with the eye.

They have past 3 days now and the one with the eye problem seems better.
I know that i must continue to the dust bathing with the powder inside everyday for at least one month.
Until now no other chin has signs of fungus ECXEPT an ear thing that 4 of the 6 things have. The two males that are at quarantine and two females, at the back of their ears and at the base to the ear where they start to have fur they have skin flakes like dandruff. Nothing else seems strange until now. Could this be fungus? dry skin? I haven't noticed at the past and i am not sure if this was happening at the past, because now i am examining them so closely and thorough.

Any advice could be helpfull for the total of my chins problems. I just hope the fungus thing to stop at 1 or 2 chinchillas otherwise i am going crazy :hair:

Thanks in advance

 

[Cuddlebug]

Are the areas red or irritated? If there is any redness, you should take the chinchilla s to the vet to have it checked to be sure. Are you using the same dust for all of the chins. If it is fungus, you could be spreading to the rest of the chinchillas.

 

[AZChins]

Can you post a picture? We could probably tell if it's fungus that way. Usually the eye infection has nothing to do with fungus, but it is possible that the eye has a fungal infection and it isn't bacterial. Possible, but usually eye infections can be treated with a mild antibacterial eye drop. (I like neomycin or gentamycin as the active ingredient in eye drops..)

Definitely post a picture. I'd like to see what it looks like. Sometimes flakes on the ears are just built up dust and oils that flake off over time. It does sound like it could be fungus. And, that's pretty easy to treat, but you'll just have to make sure to keep things clean...the fungal spores scatter easily and blow into everything and stick to everything.

 

[Duny]

Hello and thanks fo trying to help!

There aren't any areas red or irritated or redness. That is the strange...

I used one dust container for males and one for females. But five days now is use 3 different for the 3 males and the same for females as females don't have yet show something like fungus or anything else.

I don't have a camera but i will find one tomorrow and i will post pictures. I give Fuscidin Viscous eyes drops to the one that has the eye problem is it ok?

I try to keep everything clear, I wash my hands well after touching anything from any chinchilla or a chinchilla. When i particularly touch the two chinchillas the one with the baldness and the other with the eye problem i change clothes also.

I have a question about fungus: The fungus when it attacks at a spot, lets say a circle with diameter 10mm, the hair disappears completely from inside that circle? I ask this because the one with the balness at nose it has scatteringly bold and missing fur. It is not like a clear spot that as i have read this happens with fungus. Maybe I am wrong. It is like 2mm without hair then 2mm with hair and all this scatteringly. I don't know if i explain it well because as you may already noticed, English is not my native language.

 

[Cuddlebug]

If it is fungus, each chinchilla needs to have their own dust or you will be spreading the spores from one chinchilla to the other and on sown the line.

 

[Duny]

I found a camera to post some pictures for his nose and ears. I hope this pictures to help you for a solution ro my chinchiullas problem.

Nose Links
http://www.seatech.gr/Bnose1.JPG
http://www.seatech.gr/Bnose2.JPG
http://www.seatech.gr/Bnose3.JPG

Ears Links
http://www.seatech.gr/Bear1.JPG
http://www.seatech.gr/Bear2.JPG

 

[Cuddlebug]

I would get those chinchillas in to the vet. that really looks like it could be fungus. You may need something stronger that the stuff you are putting in their dust.

 

[meiying]

Hi, it does look like ringworm to me.
My chin Chester had it once, and it started from his nose, then spread to his ear. I have attached the following pics for you to compare... Chester was actually getting better in those pics, the yellowish stuff was the ringworm medicine given by the vet.

The vet did "culture" for Chester but they said they did not see any ringworm under the microscope, but i have read posts here somewhere, saying that the vet do not always catch ringworm, so....

I eventually went to get a ringworm spray myself and my chin recovered very well afterwards.

 

[Duny]

I took the two chins (males) the one with the eye problem (it looks almost healed after 3days antibiotic drops) and the other with the nose bald spot. I searched them very thoroughly and I noticed unfortunately signs that are not look good, and the worst is that I am sure that other two chinchillas (females) have similar signs...

I found that the flakes at the ears today are more than yesterday and is like dry skin because if I scratch the base of their ears the flakes get more as they unstick from the skin. Then especially the one with the eye problem has these flakes almost all over his body except the back (from the back legs to the tail). More than the half body has flakes up and under at the belly, not as many as at the ears, but they exist. In addition, it looks like it loses hair especially around his neck and the fur there is much less dense. Also, the forehand of the chin that has bald spots at the nose is also in bad condition. The bald spot there is very small and I had to wet the fur so I can isolate it, it has flakes, it is not red I would say, but it is something that eats their fur!!! You can see lower fur and missing fur. I post the pictures. As for the shampoo, I am trying to find the vet that has the shop, 2 days now (only one vet shop here...) and I can't find him. I will go tomorrow to his shop again to find medicines for fungus. Unfortunately he is a vet for dogs,cats...

Forehand
http://www.seatech.gr/Bforehead1.JPG

http://www.seatech.gr/Bforehead2.JPG

 

[Cuddlebug]

Any vet should be able to tell you if it is fungus (ringworm). He may need to research what medicine is safe for chinchillas. Just asking the vet for medicine is not a good idea. The vet needs to see what is going on and check it to see if it is fungus r something else.

 

[Duny]

Well I went to the vet with one chinchilla. She did not even know how to hold it. Anyway I hold it and shown her all these things. She told me the same that is fungus and ringworm. She gave me the malaseb shampoo she also gave me an oral treatment ITRADROPS which contain itraconazol and she told me to give 0,5ml every morning, once a day for two weeks.
What do you think?

The vet told me that I shouldn't give the oral treatment until if I see signs like the pictures I posted.

Should I provide the oral treatment to all 6 chins? As the 4 of the 6 have the flakes at the moment nothing else, but I am afraid that all may have the fungus.