Treating nose rub.

[blakehose]

Hi all,


My yearling Olive seems to have a severe case of 'let me through this ventitis' and all of the pushing, rubbing and poking has taken a little bit of skin off the top of his snout. What is the best treatment for this ? I'm thinking I might take him to the vet today, as it only happened this morning or should I just buy a product to apply ?

cheers,

Blake

 

[Hooglabah]

neither unless its bleeding he will be fine, my bhp gets this all the time and every shed hes fine again its jus the surface layer thats being damaged. i stopped my bhp from doing it on the vents by putting my smelly socks in front of them.

 

[blakehose]

Alright, it is just the top layer that is a little pink, but there is no blood visible. I think I will just let it be and keep a good eye on it, to make sure it doesn't get irritated or infected. haha I think I might pack the little hole for the vent with some cloth so that he is unable to directly press on it. Though, there are a lot of smelly socks hanging around....

Cheers for the help.

 

[Joemal]

Got the same problem with my Olive but she does it from pushing her nose under the bedroom door .Does come out with each shed but now has a pale mark from it .I use Lucas Papaw cream .Seems to work ok

 

[blakehose]

Paw paw cream didn't even come to mind, I think I might get some of that onto it. Plenty of it lying around here, thanks for that Joemal.

 

[gozz]

I use bepanthan cream

 

[blakehose]

Where is that available Gozz?

 

[TigerCoastal]

supermarket.chemist any where blakehose...bepanthen is nappy rash cream

 

[wokka]

Treat the cause by covering the vent. Any abrasion is a possible entry point for infection.

 

[affroalex]

Got the same problem with my Olive but she does it from pushing her nose under the bedroom door .Does come out with each shed but now has a pale mark from it .I use Lucas Papaw cream .Seems to work ok

yeah i used it on my olive male when he got a burn from his heat light it healed up very quick

 

[blakehose]

Already done Wokka, jammed some fresh socks in there hah. He was trying again earlier, but no success.