Is Sarcoptic Mange harmful to unborn babies? ( I am only 5 weeks pregnant)?
My dog has contracted sarcoptic mange from fox faeces and i am 5 weeks pregnant i have been told that humans can get it but can it affect my unborn baby? I am booked in at the docs later.
It is incredibly unusual for sarcoptic mange to transmit from canine to humans. Even if you did get it, the mites can only travel from skin to skin, so as long as it’s in utero it wouldn’t be affected. The only risk is if you have it when giving birth. At 5 weeks pregnant your pooch should be healthy and cured well before you give birth, so you have nothing to worry about. Just make sure you give him/her the best veterinary care possible to get him/her back to normal and you should have a healthy fur-baby as well as a healthy 2-legger.
Dog has mange: How to prevent others from getting it?
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We have been adopted by a stray who is residing in our front yard and on our front porch. We feed him & give him water and have been attempting for seven days to get him into our car to get him to the vet. He appears to have mange (sarcoptic) on his ears.
Because of this, we do not want him to interact with our dogs in any way. Our dogs do not go in our front yard or go through our front door. When they leave the house, they are always loaded into our van in the garage and then we leave.
Are our dogs are risk for getting mange from this dog simply hanging around our front yard and front door? Can the mange mites come through our front door when we open the door or am I being overly paranoid?
We’re doing our best to get him calm enough to get him to the vet for treatment. However, until that occurs, he’s basically decided he’s camping out in our yard.
Call my vet for….??
I’ve had five appointments I’ve had to cancel because I can’t get him in the car to get him to the vet. They won’t diagnose over the phone and will not give medication over the phone, so the vet isn’t a help to me for this.
Without being a vet myself and actually doing a skin scraping, I’ve had a lot of experience with mange. I had two chows who had dermadectic mange all of their lives because of their wrinkly skin and moistness around their mouths. They always had cream put on them but it wasn’t totally contagious.
I’ve had 1 dog with sarcoptic mange, and it started on her ears and looks exactly like this: No hair AT ALL on his ears. The skin is thickened, leathery looking, and bumpy. It looks worse at the tip and gets better as it goes up. It usually starts at the tip and spreads upward on the ear and then to the rest of the body.
I’m just guess-timating, but I will not take a chance giving my dogs either mange, so I feel it necessary to keep them separated.
If he is a stray, seven days is not quite enough for him to trust you yet. Keep trying to get him to feel comfortable around you. This won’t work if you keep trying to shove him in a car (especially if he was once traumatized by one). Just be patient.
Or try calling your vet and explain the situation. Maybe they have some ideas; or maybe they might even be able to do a house call.
If it is demodontic or “red” mange, then you don’t need to be worried about it passing to your dogs. This type of mange is only transfered from mother to puppies. Actually all dogs have these mites- even healthy ones. The ones that lose fur have a concentrated amount in that particular area; or a weakened immune system allowing the mites to take over.
You should be more worried if it is sarcoptic mange. This type can be transfered- not only to your dogs- but to you yourself. This is another reason that I would definately try calling the vet again.
puppy has sarcoptic mange and there’s other dog in the house. What to do?
We recently rescued a stray puppy without realizing that she had sarcoptic mange. She did had several interactions with my dog for the 2 days before we brought her in to the vet. The vet gave the infected puppy injection and antibiotics and we’ve since confined the puppy to her crate away from our dog, making sure they have no direct contact. Now i’m worried that my dog would be infected as well. Could i use revolution on my dog now? Would it help eliminate the chances of my dog getting mange?? Or we would have to wait for 3-4weeks before bringing my dog for scrap test??
The vet simply told me to monitor my dog for 3 weeks to see she has symptoms of mange and told me to bring the infected puppy in after 2 wks for review again. Unfortunately, the vet did not give us any bathing solution or ivermectin for the infected puppy.
As for the whole family, we take extra caution when handling the infected puppy, washing our hands with disinfectant after every contact with her. So far, no one suffering from terrible skin itchiness.
She has to have more than antibiotics to kill the mites. Did he give you a bathing solution or ivermectin for the dog? Antibiotics are simply for the infection caused by scratching.
The answer is simply to treat both dogs. It’s just like when dogs get fleas in a family. You treat them all. If one dog in the home has worms, you treat them all. You just do it all at once so it doesn’t pass back and forth.
