Help!!!Dry Skin? or fungus

[eira.snow]

I got a 3 month baby chin in this April. Pretty healthy boy with normal grey fur.
He is a bathing fanatic, we used to give him dust bath every day till he lost a half square inch fur on his belly in a naughty play one month ago.We noticed that bare part was very dry and stopped giving him the everyday dust bath. To prevent fungus, we added a little bit sulfur into his dust for a week. One week ago, we found something like dandruff on his back. Smaller and fewer than the one on the picture. See attachment. His skin looks a little bit dry, white to light pink, more dandruff could be created if I touch bare skin with the figure. And the rest of his body, ear, feet, eye and nose looks normal.

The indoor humidity is relatively low now. 30-40%. Is this caused by dry skin? If it is, how to deal with it? He only takes dust bath every other day now.

Thanks a lot, I am really a new chin owner and love my little guy so much.

 

[Newt]

I can't see the pic, sorry

 

[eira.snow]

very similar to this one. but just smaller and fewer

 

[eira.snow]

 

[eira.snow]

me either. Sorry, I uploaded the new photo twice and it didn't show up. I've contacted website admin to figure out what's wrong with it.
http://www.chincare.com/IMAGES/healthmed/skinfur/dryskinunderfur.jpg
His problem looks like this one, but with smaller and fewer dandruff. And no crack on his skin, just whit and light pink.Any possibility can be fungus? If it is dry skin how to deal with it? We 've changed his dust bath frequency to 2-3 times a week. But can't find any change. http://www.chincare.com/IMAGES/healthmed/skinfur/dryskinunderfur.jpg


Thank you so much.

 

[Minccino]

Dust bath every other day is still really frequent if he has dry skin..maybe bring it down to once a week.

I can't see the pic either :/ try hosting it on tinypic.com

 

[Amethyst]

Every other day is to frequent if the humidity is only 30%-40%, once a week would be a lot better. The worst thing that would happen if the chin doesn't get enough dust baths is the fur will get greasy, which causes no harm to the chin. Too many baths can harm the chin though, causing flaky dry skin that can crack and lead to infection. My boys only get once a week baths in the winter, and twice a week in the summer.

 

[eira.snow]

Here is the image. How to tell the difference between fungus and dry skin? We give him dust baths every three days now. Does 1:50 sulfur dust mix could make his skin dry?

 

[Chinmama]

The forum is having issues with uploading pictures at this time.

 

[eira.snow]

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These are images we took yesterday.