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CassandraS
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| Posted: Nov 23 2007, 10:11 PM |
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Thanks for the tips on the mud baths.
Just today, I noticed that our male has hundreds of tiny ulcers all over his body that sprung up over the weekend. I was horrified. I had just sprayed him down with mineral oil last week-has anyone else that uses mineral oil on their rhinos ever suspected that it may contribute to the ulcers?
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Cassandra Sampson
Great Plains Zoo
Sioux Falls, SD
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| Posted: Nov 24 2007, 03:23 AM |
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We have used corn oil in the winter time to help the skin from drying out but highly doubt that had anything to do with our rhino's health issues. Cassandra are they small, about quarter sized blisters filled with a clear liquid? Define what you mean by ulcers? Could be two different things. Our old male used to get ulcers somewhat common with Superficial Necrolytic Dermatitis, they were large, bloody and "gross". Didn't seem to bother him, commonly found in mucous areas, ie nostrils, lips and before I started working genital area.
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Mark Marquardt
Potter Park Zoo
Lansing, Michigan
RIP.....Spike and Ebony '08
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| Posted: Nov 24 2007, 06:04 PM |
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He has a couple that are quarter sized, but he also has a lot of pin head sized sores-I call them ulcers because his cytology showed he has mucocutaneous ulcerative syndrome(black rhino disease). The little ones have a scab over them that I can pick off easily and it is slightly pussy underneath. They don't all develop into the large sores that don't go away.
I'm not saying that I think the mineral oil caused the syndrome, but I just wonder if maybe it isn't helping either. Just a thought-the correlation was curious to me.
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Great Plains Zoo
Sioux Falls, SD
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| Posted: Dec 5 2007, 08:58 PM |
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Here's an update-I started treating our male's sores with mud packs, and they seem to be drying up/healing! Yeah. We also got another blood sample and everything is still normal.
Thanks again for the advice on the mud packs.
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Cassandra Sampson
Great Plains Zoo
Sioux Falls, SD
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| Posted: Dec 9 2007, 01:56 PM |
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When I visited Whipsnade Zoo belonging to the Zoological Society of London in Easter 2005 one of their southern white rhinos appeared to have a skin complaint since it was being kept isolated from the rest indoors and it seemed to be covered with some sort of vasoline.
Black rhinos are no longer kept at Whipsnade but it could be that the vets there have had some experience of curing similar skins diseases to those of your animal.
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| Posted: Jan 13 2008, 08:00 PM |
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CassandraS,
I am so glad that the mud packs began helping. Are you continuing to do this? Is it still working. Our male is also having some of these pustules. I am trying to do baths twice a week. If any of the pustules open, consider flushing out with a bid of Nolvasan or Betadine to treat the bacteria and then reapply the mud. It seems that the most keepers can do at this point is to keep the problems at bay.
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| Posted: Jan 16 2008, 10:18 PM |
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Hey cydney,
Yes, we are continuing to apply the mud packs. All of his sores are now healing-we apply mud once/week. I was doing it every day for a while. We were also cleaning them with Nolvasan and applying a thin layer of Nitrafurazone ointment. We have stopped using the ointment because they are scabbed over. I am so relieved that for now the episode seems to be subsiding, but I know what you mean about keeping it at bay. Every day I'm nervous that I will find another one.
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| Posted: Oct 19 2008, 07:43 PM |
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Just wanted to share some good news on the healing of our ~33 yr-old 1.0 Black Rhino's skin lesions! "Niki" began suffering from typical black rhino skin lesions early in 2008. Some started in pressure points, followed by others forming around ankle and foot areas. There were probably 10 lesions total. This is a problem we dealt with a few years back with our geriatric 0.1 black rhino. "Chula" had much deeper lesions that were more numerous in number, and she suffered with these for more than a year. Our general treatment for both animals consisted of daily cleaning with Novalsan scrub, and application of Novalsan ointment. With "Chula" we started a Tea Tree Ointment/Novalsan Ointment rotation. Cephalexin was prescribed for both animals when sores looked particularly inflamed. These would usually be 14-21 day treatments.
"Niki" is currently suffering from stiffness in his joints and a general slowing down of movement. To counteract this, "Niki" was prescribed a daily 1 oz. dose of Equinyl Combo. After 2 weeks of receiving this 1 oz. dose, Niki's skin lesions COMPLETELY healed. All of them! We were shocked and amazed and thrilled! After doing some research on the ingredients in Equinyl Combo, all fingers point to the MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane) in possible combination with Vitamen C. MSM is a metabolic end product of DMSO (Dimethyl sulfoxide). Niki has received this daily dose for approximately 8-10 weeks now. His skin is still completely healed, and no new lesions have formed. His stiffness is still the same, so in that capacity, the Equinyl Combo has not been helpful.
If any of you have experienced this same result with this product, please let me know. It would be very interesting to hear about other positive results. I also suggest trying this product if your rhinos are suffering from these nagging lesions. If I hear other positive results, I would like to present this topic at the Rhino Keeper Workshop in 2009!
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