Need input and drug help on a skin issue

[CritterMom]

I am helping a girl off the board who has taken in a foxer girl. The little one was found cornered by a cat a month or so ago. She was taken in, dosed with Cipro, and has been doing well. She is totally blind - the cataracts are easy to see in her eyes. We believe she is an old girl - she was emaciated when found - her blindness was obviously not only preventing her from being able to find food, it also was about to doom her to death. She is eating well now - she gets her HHBs every day and is absolutely addicted to ensure - she LOVES it and gets her "ba ba" a couple times a day as well as a few greens, etc.

She popped up with some crusty areas that were itching her a few weeks ago and thinking it was likely mange making an appearance due to her poor condition at intake, and she has had 2 treatments of ivermectin so far. It is not getting better, and the crusty areas have a yellow, scaly appearance, and clumps of the scaly skin stick to hair clumps that are coming out. I suggested wiping the areas down with betadyne solution, but it is very difficult to do this enough and to saturate them enough to really get any relief - she IS a wild. It also seems to be spreading.

Pyoderma??

WMB suggests either clavamox or clindamycin orally for this. Which is the best choice? Does anyone think this could be anything else? This little girl has ended up with someone who will provide her with a loving home to spend her senior years in - their first act was to run out to buy her an air conditioner so she would be comfy! I would really like to get this resolved for her!

BTW, the blue thing in the pic is a bit of her fleecy blanket!

[HRT4SQRLS]

It could be pyoderma ... Staph/Strep infection. I would use the Clavamox as a first choice. If it IS a Staph or Strep infection both antibiotics should work but if it's something else, the Clindamycin might not work because it has such a narrow spectrum.
When you're treating an 'unknown' I prefer a broader spectrum drug.

[Mommaluvy]

It could be pyoderma ... Staph/Strep infection. I would use the Clavamox as a first choice. If it IS a Staph or Strep infection both antibiotics should work but if it's something else, the Clindamycin might not work because it has such a narrow spectrum.
When you're treating an 'unknown' I prefer a broader spectrum drug.

Totally agree . The few that I have had with hair and staph presented like that . Harder to see the progression under the hair. So I missed most of the white pustules on the main body of the critter. But the naked to fuzzy ones were easier to see. So the hair loss in the clumps as you posted was what I saw in my fur covered older ones.


Ditto to Hrts.

You can bath the whole animal ( except head ) in clorhexiderm hand wash from a drug store/pharmacy .

I treated topically once and then with the clav. The hair loss will get worse before it gets better. The spots will flatten and flake off. But you will see improvement and no more new spots.

I have had 10 cases of staph this year alone. After a while I just stopped running to the vet for a culture.

[CritterMom]

Thanks, ladies. We will start the clavamox. The bathing part is the issue. She is trying very hard not to constantly do things that terrify this little newly blind girl and bathing with anything would be a flat out two person wrestle. Since it would be an everyday thing I would really rather go internal anyway.