Weird thing on wrist.

[Demonardae]

For about a month and a half I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with my little girl's wrist. At first I thought there was a weird swollen lump, but it looks to be just part of her arm. :wallbang: (Though maybe a tad bigger on her left wrist (afflicted wrist) than the right) Some of the main symptoms of this thing though is redness, dry scaly skin (not flaking), and hair loss. When I took her to the vet his initial thought was mites, so he did a skin scraping. That turned up negative for mites so he thought perhaps that maybe it was a infection in her wrist. So for three weeks I gave her baytril at .20ml twice a day and there was no improvement although it did upset her stomach. It's been a week and a half since I stopped the medication and nothing has changed with her wrist.

Here is a picture of her wrist. Hopefully someone has encountered something like this before and can tell me what to do. :nod: Thanks in advance!

 

[hopefloats]

Does she groom it? I had a girl who over groomed her wrist and it would look similar to that.

It is hard to tell if it is swollen or not.

 

[Demonardae]

She's not really a big groomer when she is around me, but I supposed it's possible she is over grooming the area when she was in her cage. However this thing popped up over night. When it first showed up it was much redder than it is now.

 

[Joanne]

I adopted a girl this summer who has bald wrists and forearms. Even though I never catch her, I feel it is obsessive grooming that is causing it. A possibility.......

 

[ChrisK]

Skin scrapings don't really work to determine mites or not... if the mites are in the fur, scraping the skin wouldn't show any. But are there any other symptoms of mites? i.e. lots of scratching, scabs on her body, etc.?

 

[jorats]

It's hard to tell from that angle... But if Baytril didnt help at all, and it hasn't grown, I'd probably just keep an eye on it.
She's using it normally?

 

[victoria]

One of my girls started grooming herself raw on the paws and belly. I thought she was just being neurotic but I found out last week one of my rats had lice (she came here with lice, I treated everyone for 2 months and thought they were gone but I guess they came back) and her hair started to grow back as soon as I treated with Revolution. Skin scrapings sometimes come back negative as the type of mites rats get live on their fur. I think treating for parasites if you already haven't isn't a bad idea, just to rule it out.

 

[Demonardae]

I dealt with mites/lice before (wasn't sure which one they had, the buggies were orangish red) it was all gone with a month and the scabs healed up pretty quick to. Now I do see my girl groom herself (she usually does when she gets up from a nap) but it's her full body. She has full use of her wrist.

 

[jorats]

That really does look like it's barbering.

 

[lilspaz68]

I agree it really does look like barbering to me as well.