Mouth rot or stomatitis can be caused for many different reasons (bacterial, viral, fungal) but usually is secondary to some other problem, i.e. trauma to the mouth, nutritional deficiency, improper husbandry/caging. As for treatment, baytril is usually a good empirical treatment while awaiting results of culture of the area for bacteria/fungal agents (10-20mg/kg once daily or divided into twice daily dosage....weekly administration is definitely not doing any good). Then antibiotics can continue unchanged or changed to an appropriate antibiotic for the organisms present. I also tend to treat with topical 3x daily applications of 2% chlorhexadine solution via cotton tipped swab onto the lesions after all exudate has been removed. (I wouldn't advise the 90% alcohol, it can be very dehydrating and cause more unneccesary damage to oral mucosa..no offense to whomever suggested it please). Proper treatment can be expensive and time consuming and I've found that client compliance is not great. Hope this helps.



Todd

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