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I think Davey has been bitten by a mosquito

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I live in North Scotland and we have our own kind of mosquito called midges. THey can bite and cause a small itchy swelling. Nothing serious, just annoying.

I fed Davey last night, he had previously been on the grass for an hour. He started eating happlily, then I noticed he had a furious itch on the side of his mouth. He was jumping about trying to scratch it. Picked him up and examined the area. There is a tiny swelling around the side of his mouth and I can see a small lump underneath his hair. It is tiny but I applied some antiseptic cream and he calmed down. Checked him later on last night and he was snoozing happily after having eaten everything!

This mornng, he was fine. I can still feel the little lump. It is not red and I do not see pus. I had a guinea pig with abscesses in the past so I am on red alert for these types of things. However, the sudden itching made me think it was a sting reaction. SHould I just keep an eye on it to see if there is any growth? He is a happy little boy (that's him in the pic above with me) and The thought of him under the knife with horrible baytril upsets me. My vet is very baytril-happy and seems to dish it out all the time. THe loss of appetite as a result is very distressing to me, espcecially when he perhaps does not need it.

Don't get me wrong, I would never shy from treatment at all, but I don't like the "here's some bayril for a week, see how he goes, we may operate later and perhaps give him more baytril".

Has anyone else had an insect sting situation?
 
Sorry, meant to say that the loss of appetite would be from the antibiotic.
 
Hi love, no i've never experienced this, i'm hoping that somebody who has can answer this for you O0
awww poor little Davey give him HUGE hugs, kisses on that cute little nose and his little ears from me and Duke sends him wheeeeeeeeeks to help his mouth get better :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:

Our mozzies in OZ are damned vicious things they can give you a really bad sickness my second son was bitten when he was young and was very ill i had to literally fill him up with antihistamines.
Have you spoken to the vets? i'd ask some advice surely they can give this to you over the phone... wishing you all the best our paws are crossed for little Davey :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
 
Yes, I'm going to call the vet today and get an appt for a check-up. I'm just hoping that they give him the all clear and that it was a little nip from a midge. They are out in force this year due to the damp weather at the start of the year. Helped them to breed more profusely or something.
 
That really does sound like a midge bite. Perhaps your pig is just slightly more sensitive to midges and perhaps needs to stay off the grass for the next few weeks if you are in a bad area (‘bad area ' :) – I’m sure if you get tons of midges you probably live in a very nice area!)

If the lump seems to be going down I personally wouldn’t go to the vet but that is your decision.

For anyone not familiar with Scottish midges they are vile things and the bites irritate like hell. I’m absolutely certain that they would bite pigs around their eyes and mouths.

We spent last weekend in the Cairngorms and had to take a litter of pigs with us as the mother wasn’t feeding them and we couldn’t expect our pig-sitter to do hand-rearing.
The midges were worse than we expected and we were careful to keep the pigs in the inner part of the tent with the mesh door zipped up (I’m talking a family size tent here, on a caravan park not a little mountain tent up on a hillside if anyone is concerned ::)). I wonder what people thought we were doing when we kept fetching handfuls of grass into the tent for mum piggy.

We seemed to be able to keep the midges off the pigs but the behaviour and the lumps you describe in your pig is exactly what we would have been looking for.
 
when your vet puts your boys on to baytril or any antibiotic, does he give you a probiotic to protect their little tummies from the antibiotic? an antibiotic kills bad and good bugs in the gut flora and a probiotic protects the tummy from this happening. so if on baytril and your piggies go of their tucker ask for some probiotic which you mix in water and either add to their water or syringe feed it to them O0 good luck with your babies, my OH would love to be in scotland, buit i keep telling him he hasn't the legs for a kilt ;D ;D ;D sending hugs to davey and your fur babies :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
 
Thank you all for your comments.

Davey was seen by the vet last night and he had indeed been stung / bitten by an insect, probably when he was out on the grass . I have just to apply some more antiseptic cream to soothe it. At least it was not a bee / wasp sting.

But it has made me more aware that they can be victim to beastie bites too.
 
poor little boy, give him some more loves, wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks and gentle kisses on his nose and ears and that poor little mouth :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
 
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