Sentences with phrase «rabbit pinworm»
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Rabbits can become infected with various intestinal parasites (coccidia and pinworms are common), as well as external parasites such as ear and fur mites, fleas and occasionally ticks.
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«Pinworms do not cause a serious health threat to rabbits, but they can cause uncomfortable itching and skin inflammation or redness.»
Pinworms are challenging to treat because they have a direct life cycle related to the rabbit's feces.
Your rabbit becomes infected with pinworms by coming into contact with or eating the feces of a rabbit that has pinworms eggs in its feces.
Therefore, if your veterinarian has made a positive diagnosis of pinworms in your rabbit, you'll be instructed to administer antiparasitic drugs.
Most likely, your rabbit was exposed to the pinworm - infected feces from its parents or at the pet store or breeder.
Since the pinworm is a direct life cycle with NO intermediate host, this means your rabbit got it from the feces of an infected rabbit (it didn't just happen to your rabbit).