WTF Skin Infection

[Bynny Ribbit]

I actually have some positive results to bring back for Moochy's skin condition. Her left eye, on the other hand, has had the cloudiness strike back with a vengeance along with a mystery dot (the reason she was likely hiding more). I have been putting the eye drops I previously received in it in hopes it will help alleviate it until her next appointment, which will unfortunately be Thursday due to scheduling conflicts with the vet I'm taking her to.

I may have wrongfully attributed Moochy's progress to the injection she received last Wednesday (or maybe it and the soak worked in conjunction a little bit?). I just did a 2nd saline soak on March 4th since she seemed to be doing worse and I'm really pleased with what it has accomplished in such a short time frame.



The image on March 1st was two days after her first soak (I realized this after I made the graphic, my bad). You can see she was smoother than previous pictures and that a few of the tan nodules turned into open sores. Considering how the ones on her face started off like this, scabbed, and healed, I believe this is a good sign of progress. I didn't pursue another soak after this and only administered the silver sulfadiazine on the open sores to promote good healing. Her skin worsened over the next few days and I wasn't able to get her into the vet, so I turned again to the strong saline dip which I found here. Although it clarifies it is for use on aquatic and land-based frogs, I decided to chance it and I'm glad I did. I used pictures of her back legs because I feel the progress is nicely apparent there; I circled two different problem spots which have obviously improved in a 24 hour period. Other areas are a bit more difficult to notice because of her color changing.



Moochy was definitely uncomfortable on the 4th and barely wanted to open her cloudy eye (and all those bumps!). Fast forward to the day after and it seems to bother her a little less (I was applying her eye drops along with the saline soak). Although the picture on the right isn't perfect, the skin was smoother with a portion of the nodules seeming to recede. I didn't circle them, but there were two tan nodules to the left of her left eye in the March 4th image. Next day, both of those nodules had turned to the open sores along with a hidden one inbetween them!

Moochy still has a long way to go to good health again, but these results made me pursue another soak today. I haven't noticed any negative effects on her. In fact, she did a short little call for me not too long after her soak, which really put me in a good mood.

Thanks for keeping up with Moochy's progress!