Mary McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>Hey, this just happened two weeks ago to one of my gerbils, except the gerbil
>that this happened to is alone. Yours might be allergic to the bedding, this
>happened to my lil' Catnip twice until I changed her bedding to Aspen (it was
>corncob at first) and then she stopped getting the bloody nose/eye thing.
> Mary
I could be an allergy, but if there is a large area of suppuration then
this suggests a staphylococcal infection. It should respond well to
antibiotic treatment.
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Julian
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