My Guinea pig has mites, what should I do after tre

[Caitlinwx]

So just found out one of my guinea pigs has mites! Took him to the vet today he got treatment but this is my first time dealing with this, I have deep cleaned their cages, washed their bedding in hot wash and put wood shavings in until the mites are gone. I’ve deep cleaned toys, beds bowls too. Now I’m unsure what is next to do, how will I know when the mites are gone? Do they just die after one treatment because the vets just told me to put that one tube on him and that should be it Also How often should I treat them after this so they don’t get them again?

 

[Siikibam]

Do you know which type of mites he was diagnosed with? If hay mites you need to throw away the current hay and buy more, perhaps from a different source. As far as I’m aware, treatment is 2 weeks apart for a total of 3 rounds. One treatment wouldn’t be enough I’m afraid.

They also shouldn’t be treated preventatively. This can lead to the parasite building up a resistance to the medicine. So the next time (if) they got it, it wouldn’t work. So no preventative treatment. Have a look at the vet locator below and see if you can find another vet to take your boy to. You may have to travel I’m afraid.
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[Piggies&buns]

Welcome to the forum and sorry to hear about the mites.

Treating mites is done as part of a three course treatment with a couple of weeks between each treatment. Your vet therefore should have asked you to book two more treatments to get rid of the mites. The treatment itself only kills the lives mites at that time. So you have a second treatment in a couple of weeks time to kill the mites which were eggs at the time of the first treatment but will have since hatched. You then do a third treatment another couple of weeks later to ensure all are really gone. Then that’s it.

You dont do anything preventatively. You only do treatment when you have a confirmed case.

 

[tabelmabel]

When my pig had mites, she had a balding patch on her back. It was in the lockdown and the vet wouldnt see her but sent xeno50 (the mini one) through the post and i had to put quite a few little tubes of that on her, then repeated over a 3 week course i think it was.


I also used lice n easy shampoo from gorgeous guineas as i read that xeno50 wont dispatch all types of mites and of course the vet hadnt seen her for diagnosis.

Anyway, between the 2 treatments, her fur grew back really fast and that is how i knew they were gone