Re: Guapi's vet is coming!

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Posted by LauraO on February 17, 1999 at 12:34:48:

In Reply to: Guapi's vet is coming! posted by Laura on February 17, 1999 at 11:23:17:

: Guapi's vet comes to the house tonight for his first ckeck up and I'm so excited/nervous! Have any of you ever had raised, black lumps on your ig's skin? I keep his cage clean, give him showers and have even soaked him in a mild Betadine solution, but the black lumps persist. I wonder if it's a fungal infection that he got before I had him..I've only had him 7 weeks and I would think if he was housed with other igs (which he was), maybe a fungal infection would be communicable. I hope it's nothing serious. Please keep precious Guapi in your thoughts and I will post tomorrow to let you know how it goes! Thanks for listening...Laura& Guapi
I've never actually had my own iguana but many of my friends have an the black lumps are common. So is black tail.
My vet is very good with herps and does generally diagnose this as a fungus. Betadine does not always work and what has already turned black, if it is a ]
fungus, will not come back. The dead skin will be replaced by new skin though. I forget what my vet uses to inject the igs with but there has never been more than one return
check needed. ALso a topical fungicide was used. I have often used tinactin antifungal powder to inhibit fungus growth on incubating snake eggs and it has almost always worked. Chances are you can
use it on an ig with no problems. Good luck to Guapi!

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: : Guapi's vet comes to the house tonight for his first ckeck up and I'm so excited/nervous! Have any of you ever had raised, black lumps on your ig's skin? I keep his cage clean, give him showers and have even soaked him in a mild Betadine solution, but the black lumps persist. I wonder if it's a fungal infection that he got before I had him..I've only had him 7 weeks and I would think if he was housed with other igs (which he was), maybe a fungal infection would be communicable. I hope it's nothing serious. Please keep precious Guapi in your thoughts and I will post tomorrow to let you know how it goes! Thanks for listening...Laura& Guapi : I've never actually had my own iguana but many of my friends have an the black lumps are common. So is black tail. : My vet is very good with herps and does generally diagnose this as a fungus. Betadine does not always work and what has already turned black, if it is a ] : fungus, will not come back. The dead skin will be replaced by new skin though. I forget what my vet uses to inject the igs with but there has never been more than one return : check needed. ALso a topical fungicide was used. I have often used tinactin antifungal powder to inhibit fungus growth on incubating snake eggs and it has almost always worked. Chances are you can : use it on an ig with no problems. Good luck to Guapi!

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