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Sick Female Joey 6 weeks OOP

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Question
I have a problem that has been stressing me for over a weeks. I bought a breeding pair of sugar gliders about 8 months ago, I love them so much. They have produced 3 babies so far all of the very happy and healthy, except for the last one she is 6 weeks oop. She was born with a brown nose which was different from the others when they came out of the pouch. A few weeks after she was out and about  I started noticing that every time I picked her up all of her underside was wet.  She started looking very ruff and not well groomed at all. I kept a close watch on her more and noticed she was licking her underside and trying to pull hair out and I started noticing a smell. I quickly started researching and called my vet.  I did some research and found that one website classified her as an "ick joey" born with a brown nose and fit her description. They said it was caused by; bacterial infection, fungal infection, staph or yeast infection. The Vet didn't know what to do so he gave me some cream "EnteDerm" cream 2-3 times a day and Amoxicillin every 8 hours to parents and baby. The website I had read about the "ick joeys" said to bathe her in Vetericyn wound and skin care and I have been doing that daily. (The parents have shown no sign of irritation or illness). I have not seen much improvement and I don't know what to do, I live in a small farming community, there are not a lot of small animal Veterinarians around. Have you seen this problem before? How did she get it? What can I do to prevent this? Should I separate her from her parents?  

Please let me know your thoughts as soon as possible, I am so worried about her.

Thank you SO much!

Answer
I cant legally give you a diagnosis for her, but I can say you will have a long road ahead of you. She needs to be pulled from all the other gliders and kept alone. I highly recommend finding a exotics vet, any vet can and will act like they know what they are doing just to get money. But only a exotic vet will properly diagnose and care for your glider. I have to drive 3 hours to my exotics vet so I feel your pain as far as being in a small town away from any real exotic vets.

If I had to give it a name I would say it sounds like Clostridium difficle and Campylobacter. I have never experienced this but know numerous people that have and after all kinds of antibiotics, medicated dip baths and constant care, the gliders rarely ever show any progress. I would highly recommend getting her into see a proper vet so she can hopefully recover, until then separate her and try to keep her cage as clean and dry as possible and don't over stress her if you can help it.