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Maureen Day United Kingdom (Verified User) Posts 1246 Dogs 4 / Races 4 04 Jul 2012 16:10
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Hi David,
I saw my friend yesterday and the vet is fairly certain it is a skin infection so the dog is, I understand, on a course of antibiotics. The vet also gave my friend another bottle of malaseb shampoo but to only use it "locally" i.e. wash the infected area only, not the whole dog.
A skin scrape was not thought appropriate at this time but is still an option if the anitbiotics don't clear the problem.
I saw my friend yesterday and the vet is fairly certain it is a skin infection so the dog is, I understand, on a course of antibiotics. The vet also gave my friend another bottle of malaseb shampoo but to only use it "locally" i.e. wash the infected area only, not the whole dog.
A skin scrape was not thought appropriate at this time but is still an option if the anitbiotics don't clear the problem.
regards, Maureen
"A skin scrape is not appropriate"?, good vet! as Kieran said "inject with Ivomec as it certainly looks like mange.The skin will clear quickly once the skin-mite is dealt with and new hair growth will be helped by using Quistel
Maureen Day United Kingdom (Verified User) Posts 1246 Dogs 4 / Races 4 04 Jul 2012 19:38
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John Spracklen wrote:
Maureen Day wrote:
Hi David,
I saw my friend yesterday and the vet is fairly certain it is a skin infection so the dog is, I understand, on a course of antibiotics. The vet also gave my friend another bottle of malaseb shampoo but to only use it "locally" i.e. wash the infected area only, not the whole dog.
A skin scrape was not thought appropriate at this time but is still an option if the anitbiotics don't clear the problem.
regards, Maureen
"A skin scrape is not appropriate"?, good vet! as Kieran said "inject with Ivomec as it certainly looks like mange.The skin will clear quickly once the skin-mite is dealt with and new hair growth will be helped by using Quistel
The vet is a good vet and one that is trusted and respected. The words you quoted were my words, not the vets, as I could not remember what I was told he said about the skin scrape and this was what I took it to mean.
New hair growth is not really a problem as the problem area clears up in 7 - 10 days after first appearing and being treated and the coat grows back with a few days of that.
I saw my friend yesterday and the vet is fairly certain it is a skin infection so the dog is, I understand, on a course of antibiotics. The vet also gave my friend another bottle of malaseb shampoo but to only use it "locally" i.e. wash the infected area only, not the whole dog.
A skin scrape was not thought appropriate at this time but is still an option if the anitbiotics don't clear the problem.
regards, Maureen
"A skin scrape is not appropriate"?, good vet! as Kieran said "inject with Ivomec as it certainly looks like mange.The skin will clear quickly once the skin-mite is dealt with and new hair growth will be helped by using Quistel
The vet is a good vet and one that is trusted and respected. The words you quoted were my words, not the vets, as I could not remember what I was told he said about the skin scrape and this was what I took it to mean.
New hair growth is not really a problem as the problem area clears up in 7 - 10 days after first appearing and being treated and the coat grows back with a few days of that.
It does not look like any of the suggestions I have seen on the thread, and I have had experience with most of them. To be honest, it does not look infected either, so I am amazed the dog was given ABs, though maybe the photo was not revealing enough.
When ever I have taken in a dog with a problem looking like that, I treat it as the dog needing better nutrition, specifically the B vitamins, which have niacin and thiamine in them, which are very good for skin and coat. I would, in other words, treat it from the inside out, and not topically. Just like we all need different levels of nutrition in us, so do some dogs. A lot of greyhounds have poor coats because they need more B-vitamins than what is normally given them. Vets are not trained in nutrition generally,so they just go along with what the dog food companies tell them. I also think treating a dog for mange when you don't know that it's mange is not a good idea. You are essentially putting poison in the dog for possibly no good reason. I would buy that dog a bottle of B-complex and give it niacin and thiamine-rich foods and then see what happens in 3 weeks.
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