Fungal? Canker? What’s on her mouth??

[Boggy Henbit]

So my friends, here is the report from our vet visit!

We had a relatively peaceful transport. The vet scooped out the infected area in her mouth, did cytology looking for yeast or bacteria and found general bacteria!

He said there was probably a small cut or injury that allowed the bacteria to be introduced.

He sent us home w/ doxycycline & I will pull her eggs for a while. Luckily she is our only Americauna who lays a very bright blue egg & not very often.

He did say that there is a chance that she has osteomyelitis (if the infection has gone into the bone). In this case the doxy may not be enough to make it go away.

Thanks again for the suggestions & support!!

 

[Kiki]

View attachment 1921002 View attachment 1921003 View attachment 1921004 So my friends, here is the report from our vet visit!

We had a relatively peaceful transport. The vet scooped out the infected area in her mouth, did cytology looking for yeast or bacteria and found general bacteria!

He said there was probably a small cut or injury that allowed the bacteria to be introduced.

He sent us home w/ doxycycline & I will pull her eggs for a while. Luckily she is our only Americauna who lays a very bright blue egg & not very often.

He did say that there is a chance that she has osteomyelitis (if the infection has gone into the bone). In this case the doxy may not be enough to make it go away.

Thanks again for the suggestions & support!!

Thank you for the update and I hope the medicine works.
Good luck.

 

[Eggcessive]

Glad that you could see a vet. Did the lesion in her beak have a really bad odor? Was he able to rule out canker, a protozoan infection, as well diagnose the bacterial infection? I would ask if there could have been protozoa present as well. It sure looks a lot like pictures I have seen of canker. Metronidazole (Flagyl, Fish Zole) is the recommended treatment, and the vet might want to treat as well for that, along with the doxy. Thanks for sharing your experience.

 

[Boggy Henbit]

Glad that you could see a vet. Did the lesion in her beak have a really bad odor? Was he able to rule out canker, a protozoan infection, as well diagnose the bacterial infection? I would ask if there could have been protozoa present as well. It sure looks a lot like pictures I have seen of canker. Metronidazole (Flagyl, Fish Zole) is the recommended treatment, and the vet might want to treat as well for that, along with the doxy. Thanks for sharing your experience.

 

[Boggy Henbit]

He did mention the possibility of protozoan infection but that was the extent of that. Would it have shown up in the cytology? He only mentioned seeing bacteria and white blood cells.

 

[casportpony]

I would ask if there could have been protozoa present as well.

I'm not positive, but I think if they did a gram stain they would have seen it. They look like this:

 

[casportpony]

Metronidazole (Flagyl, Fish Zole) is the recommended treatment, and the vet might want to treat as well for that, along with the doxy.

I would ask about adding metronidazole.

 

[Boggy Henbit]

They definitely did a gram stain and this creature was not present thank goodness! He let me come back to see the slides w/ him;-)

 

[casportpony]

They definitely did a gram stain and this creature was not present thank goodness! He let me come back to see the slides w/ him;-)

I love it when vets let us look!

 

[Eggcessive]

That is great. I really hope the antibiotics help. Please let us know how she is doing during her treatment.