Question by tarra: What else can I give my dog? She has Malassezia Pachydermatis Dermatitis?
I bath my dog twice a week with Malaseb Shampoo. I got my rescue dog 11 months ago, she is 22 months old now. I give her 1 capsule of Candida Clear a day, Duraflora capsules to help keep good bacteria in her gut, brewers yeast, Coconut oil, Cold Compressed Flax seed oil capsules (1 twice daily).

She is an extremely fuzzy eater, I have managed to get her to eat dried food (Petsathome) own make with prebiotics and probiotics, I have to add butchers canned gluten and wheat free tin to it or she won’t eat the dry the food.

The vet is very impressed with her coat and says her skin is doing well. Does anyone know how to keep your dog free of yeast? Any advice in relation to the disease would be appreciated. I give my dog Benadryl 8mg twice a day, they last 8 hours the tablets, these control the itching due to the dust allergy. Is there anymore I can do for my dog? I give my dog Zylkene tablets, these stop her from self harming due to her past anxiety.

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Answer by Christopher S
Whatever your vet recommends.

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Question by Pug?Bug: Has anyone else had to give their dog a chemical bath to clear demodex mites?
My poor little guy is one year old and is suffering quite badly with demodex mites.

Skin scrapings and testing has shown a high level of mites as well as a yeast and bacterial infection. He has been undergoing a course of treatment over the past few months which has helped his symptoms – but not cured them. The bacterial infection and yeast infection has cleared but the mites remain!

My vet thinks the underlying cause of it may be an allergy. However, he wants to treat the mite problem first to make the dog more comfortable and to see if the problem could just purely be the mites before we start the costly process of testing for allergies/diet testing.

To treat the mites, my vet gave ‘advocate’ as treatment. This was supposed to clear the mite problem up with 4 uses (one pipette a month). We are onto the last pipette now and while he does not scratch/lick/bite himself as often, at times he still appears uncomfortable. At my last visit to the vet, the mite number had dramatically reduced, but he still had live mites on his body and so the vet mentioned that our other option could be a chemical bath. He is reluctant to give my dog this treatment as it can often have horrible side effects for the dog. Has anyone else used this method of treatment? If so, did it work? did it effect the dog badly? did it prevent the problem from returning?

We are back at the vet in the morning for another skin scraping to look at the number of mites on his skin and discuss where to go from here, just wanted to hear from first hand experience what this ‘chemical bath’ was like.
My vet will be the one giving my dog the first bath. He wants me to stay at the surgery with him while he washes the dog to show me how to do it properly and how much to use. He said he will make up a solution in bottles for me to take home which will be safe to put straight on without me having to add water etc. He has checked with the manufacturer of the product that it is safe for use on pugs as he knows the treatment can’t be used on chihuahuas (I don’t know why?!?) Apparently I will have to wash him every 2 weeks for 2 months with it?

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Answer by Infinitely Superior
DIPS DON’T FREAKING WORK!!!
Ivomec,though not “labeled for use” in dogs DOES!

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Question by sunset8949: Is this a scratch, pink eye, or something else?
My friend invited me to spend the night at her house last night. She has 3 cats and a dog. As far as I know, I’m not allergic to cats or dogs, but I’m thinking I might be a little bit because I was a little sniffly and sneezy last night, and my younger brother is allergic to dogs.

Anyways, because of that, I was rubbing my eyes more than usual because they were kind of watery from allergies. Today I noticed that the outside of my left eye is really red. I thought maybe it was because I rubbed it too much, which happens sometimes with me. So I put some Visine in my eye directly on that spot and it burned/stung for about 5 seconds, which doesn’t happen when I put in eye drops. So I’m thinking it’s a scratch or something, but I don’t wear contacts or anything so I can’t really figure out how I would have scratched it unless it was from the rubbing.

Also, on the bottle of Visine it said it expired in February 2010. That wouldn’t cause a burning sensation though, right?

Anyways, the Visine isn’t making the redness go away in that spot. The possibility of pink eye crossed my mind, but I don’t think that’s what it is (I had pink eye once when I was in middle school).

Is there anything I can do, assuming it is a scratch, to make the redness go away or to make it heal faster?

Here is a picture. I had to use the flash on the camera because it didn’t really show up that well without the flash, which is why my skin looks REALLY white lol.

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t223/lprdgecko/eyes.jpg

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Answer by Kyle Bonnyman
Hey, So, it looks like you just rubbed it a lot, but I’m not a doctor of any type and that picture isnt the greatest…so if it persists, definetly go see a doctor of some kind (eye or MD)

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Question by Lottie: Is anyone else a very allergic person? Like me.?
So is anyone else on here allergic to a lot of things like me? To be honest I am getting use to it but it is a right pain in the ass and always wonder why some people have a lot of food and airborn allergies?!?!

Im allergic too:

Grapes
Salycilate Acid
Cats (not dogs) but other animals too
Dust
Grass
Dairy products
Red meat
Kiwi
Pollen
Skin products
etc

Am not like feeling sorry for myself but concerned as to why so many?
Forgot “Aspirin” on my list too. Lol

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Answer by Shona D
I have hayfever…….if that helps???

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Question by HD: Rhodesian Ridgeback with persistantly high ALT, all else normal?
The vet & I are stumped… my 9 year old Ridgeback has been running persistantly high ALT for the past 3 years, but all else is coming out normal.

She eats only dog food (Iam’s Low-Residue), no people food.
Bile Acid tests – normal.
Ultrasound – normal, if anything liver was a bit small.

She has been on 475mg Denosyl for 6 months & the ALTs keeps rising.

Urine ph has always run high ~7.2+, which is controlled with 500mg Vitamin C. Saliva ph is a healthy 8.

She behaves fine & doesn’t look her age. Her eating, drinking, urination are all normal. No fatigue/depression issues.

She did have a tooth repair in 2003, in which the doggie dentist did a root canal and used human-grade filling compound. She had an allergic reaction to a bug bite 7 years ago, but seems to have outgrown that allergy.

I’m not wild about putting her through a liver biopsy….

Any thoughts???
Just in case anyone else is search of liver disease advice — this blog was the most helpful and concise info site I found.

Many thanks to “Mary in Ordinary Time”
http://maryeliz.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/bear-the-dogs-liver-disease/

And thank you to the other folks who sent notes of concern…

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Answer by Evan L
ummm i dont know

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