Dry Skin Keeps Getting Worse

[Lyssa-Rae]

I just bought my Hedgehog Quinn home about a month ago. Besides her dry skin she is pretty healthy. But her dry skin is starting to worry me. When I first brought her home, I noticed her dry skin. It was mostly just a little flaky and white, but not too bad. I immediatly came on this site and read to give her a bath with the Aveeno shower gel with the oatmeal. I happened to have some of the Dry Skin Relief kind so I used just a little bit, and then some vitamin E oil in the water.
Her diet was changed the day after I got her. I use Royal Canin 37 and another type, which is pretty high quality, but a little bit less than the Royal Canin 37.
I figured maybe it was just a diet thing because they had been feeding her the Pretty Hedgehog food I think it was, which I know is not good for them. About a week or two after I changed her diet, her stools turned green for about a day, so I'm guessing that was just a reaction to the diet change. Now it's been about a month, I have mixed vitamin E oil with water and poured it over her quills about 4 times now. I don't know if thats too much but it seems it keeps getting worse. You can just barely see where the quills enter the skin because there is so much dead skin flaking off. I think she is about 3 months old, and I'm guessing the quill loss is because she is quilling. There are the balls on the ends of the quills, I don't know if that is good or bad. Do you know if the dry skin continuing to get worse is diet related? Or is it possible its because she is quilling? Please help. I'm sorry this is so long. Thanks.
Also, I am using Yesterdays News bedding, so I don't think it is any allergic reaction.

[Nancy]

Is she scratching excessively? What about balding patches. Normal quilling will cause scratching and dry skin but not bald patches. The ball on the end of the quills means nothing.

Switching her diet to a good food wouldn't cause the dry skin.

I'd switch her to liners. Sometimes when using vit E oil or olive oil on them with loose bedding, the dust from the bedding gets down into the quills and adds to the dry skin.

Do you have a soft brush, a tooth brush works well or a baby brush. You can gently brush her quills.

You can also use some olive oil in the final rinse instead of vit E. Olive oil is a fine oil and often gets down onto the skin easier than vit E. :)

[Breigh]

so you can actually use olive oil on them? Directly or just in water you are bathing them in?

Having trouble finding any kind of oatmeal wash stuff over here... but no shortage of olive oil!

[Nancy]

Just add about a teaspoon of olive oil to the final rinse water and pour it over his back. Too much oil will make him slippery so be careful when you handle him afterward.

Can you get plain old oatmeal, the kind you cook? Get regular long cooking, not the instant. Put a handful of the oatmeal in a sock and swish it in the water. Rinse and do the olive oil treatment. :)

[Breigh]

I'm sure I can find it! I know one shop that has those Quaker Oats in the can, is that the same thing?!

[Nancy]

I'm sure I can find it! I know one shop that has those Quaker Oats in the can, is that the same thing?!
That's it. :)

[Lyssa-Rae]

She doesn't scratch a whole lot, everyonce in a while she'll scratch her side, but that's it. I just figured that if it was because she was on such a horrible diet before, maybe that would have been what was causing the dry skin, but she's been on a good diet for a month now. I would have thought it would be a lot better, not getting worse. Is there anything I could put in her food?

[Lyssa-Rae]

Also, there are no patches of quills missing, but she has been losing quite a few. I know she is quilling right now though, I can see new ones coming in here and there.