Ear Mites

[poliphilo]

Our outside rabbit had ear-mites. We treated him with diluted honey- slathered all over the inner ear (rabbits have a lot of ear)- and it has worked a treat- and very quickly too. He's in fine spirits again- bouncing round the back yard and eating the garden.

 

 

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I never knew honey could eliminate ear mites. That's a good thing to know for a dog/cat person as well.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Honey smothers the mites. You can also use oil- either cooking oil or baby oil.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

What are the proportions for the dilution? It sounds like a whizzer of a remedy!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

See Ailz's comment below :)

[craftyailz.livejournal.com]

3 teaspoons of honey in warm water - enough to thin it but keep it fairly thick. Cover the whole of the ear - we used a syringe and then paper kitchen roll to wipe it all over the ear - rabbits have such big ears. Honey is antibacterial and helps heal where he'd been scratching too.

The ear mite life cycle is 28 days so we need to keep on checking and will repeat as necessary.

Ear mites on a rabbit look really bad - his ear had huge brown soil like extensions weighing them down