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Today's update;
Well as is often the case with mites - until the life cycle is completely and utterly broken, you sometimes feel you are going backwards!
It's coming up to two weeks since the girls had their first mite treatment and, if I posted photos, you would probably think there has been no improvement at all and that the treatment isn't working. Well the good news is that it IS working, as compared to 14 days ago the girls are much more comfortable and have far less wounds/scabs - the mite load is being seriously reduced.....but until all the mites and eggs are gone they will continue to scratch and create new wounds.
The mite life cycle is anything from 2-14 days so it is about this time that the last of the original eggs are hatching and the doremectin can start to do its stuff killing the developing and adult mites. (Eggs are resistant to treatment). Dotty had her second injection last week and Beanie had another (third) doramectin injection yesterday.
So hopefully, in another 14 days, things should start to visibly improve for the girls.
Beanie's scabs for the most part have all healed/fallen off apart from a small scabby bit underneath the jacket Although it is still irritating her, Vet felt the jacket/dressings could stay off and the skin be allowed to air. Unfortunately on the drive back home she self-mutilated again (same area as before so looks like this is a hypersensitive area - hopefully not permanent ) so dressings and jacket are firmly back on! Vet agreed to keep spraying her with F10 and was pleased that a couple of days ago she also had her first spray of the antitfungal dip imaverol. The crustiness on her skin associated with a secondary fungal infection has now all but disappeared
Vet does not want to give the girls any more steroids (its contraversial in pigglies and whilst relieving the itching during the acute phase when treatment irist starts, over a longer period of administration it can actually slow down healing and the skin becomes paper thin) So we have discussed other types of skin treatment to help alleviate the itching. Dotty's bathing will continue at weekly intervals (as will Beanie's daily spraying mentioned above to keep infection at bay)...but I will let you know which of the new ones discussed yesterday are effective for our little baldy Beanie once we have tried them and seen the results.
The girls are also now on a different painkiller - buprecare - instead of tramadol as vet thinks this may prove more effective for the type of pain caused by the mites.
Finally on a husbandry note: it's worth mentioning that I am completely changing/cleaning their cages every day to prevent stray mites harbouring in the bedding or hay and re-infecting by laying more eggs. I attend to my own pigs first before I don gloves and a plastic apron to treat the girls in a different quarantine room....and I then bung all my clothes in the washing machine afterwards. I am also treating all my own pigs with ivermectin spot-on at weekly intervals as a precautionary measure.
Pebble I am going to Paypal some money over tomorrow. I can't express enough my admiration for what you are doing, I really hope they both pull through, they couldn't be in better hands than yours 
its a good thing you had asked on here so we were able to help your pets survive! I'm amazed the vet couldn't recognise they should have been tested for mange immediately - didn't they offer any kind of treatment at all?
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