LA
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Lily is the last of my original 6. She will be 3 in June and is doing ok. She started having HED a while back, and it's getting worse all the time. She started having a skin condition a while ago, she was itchy, scratching and started to get bald patches with scratch marks. Worst of it was because of her HED her coordination was bad to scratch, making her scratches even worse on her body. First thing I thought of was mites. I've had it where only one rat shows signs everytime we've had them. So I dosed everyone with revolution and it didn't help. So then I tried baytril to see if that would help. She was on it for over 3 weeks and that didn't help. I went into the vet last week to get Erin's teeth trimmed and brought Lily with me. We discussed it and my vet suggested psychosis, all neurological, a possible tumor pressing on the receptors or whatever making her THINK she was itchy but not. As soon as she said that, something in my head clicked, like a long awaited answer. So we tried her on pred. I had noticed her get more and more clumsy, but I wasn't sure if it was due to her HED. But I suspect it's more due to a tumor now. So I put her on pred, after 5 days of it her scratches are starting to clear up, she doesn't appear to be as itchy nor scratch as much. I told the vet I will be keeping her on pred. Of course I added baytril combo to this as well.
