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#110961 - 08/08/2006 07:31 PM |
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Thanks Connie, I have been giving my dog 500 units of vitamin E. I also supplement Barleans Flax oil which has Omega 3-7700mg, Omega 6-2240mg and Omega 9-2520mg per 1 tablespoon. I give two tablespoons in the morning. Should I give more? He weighs between 85 and 90 pounds. Thanks.
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#110962 - 08/08/2006 08:17 PM |
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Thanks Connie, I have been giving my dog 500 units of vitamin E. I also supplement Barleans Flax oil which has Omega 3-7700mg, Omega 6-2240mg and Omega 9-2520mg per 1 tablespoon. I give two tablespoons in the morning. Should I give more? He weighs between 85 and 90 pounds. Thanks.
Fish oil.
The Omega 3s in vegetable sources are not converted by dogs into the beneficial long-chain Omega 3s. New research......
From my post early in the thread:
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Other recent research tells me that plant sources of Omega 3s are not efficient for dogs (and not perfect for humans, either, but better than for dogs). I posted this somewhere here earlier in full but don't have time right this second to link it. Anyway, marine sources of Omega 3s (fish oil) plus Vitamin E are the right tool for the skin and the allergy support.
Also, some allergic dogs are allergic to flax. Flax is not a poor choice in general, I don't think; it's just not the thing to rely on for the dog's long-chain Omega 3 EFAs ....... END
In other words, plant sources (flax, canola, etc.) of Omega 3 EFAs are not very useful to dogs. They need marine sources: fish oil.
Here's a list of some of the good ones, IMO: http://www.crnusa.org/o3group.html
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#110963 - 08/08/2006 08:25 PM |
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......I also supplement Barleans Flax oil which has Omega 3-7700mg, Omega 6-2240mg and Omega 9-2520mg per 1 tablespoon. I give two tablespoons in the morning. Should I give more? He weighs between 85 and 90 pounds. Thanks.
I have that brand of flax oil too. Fish oil (which the store where you got the Barleans will have, probably right near the Barleans) costs twice as much, but you won't need 2 tablespoons.
Are you not seeing any dry skin improvement with the flax oil? Even with inefficient Omega 3s, I'd think the oil would be helping with the dry skin anyway.
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#110964 - 08/09/2006 06:11 AM |
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Thanks Connie, I'm going to the supermarket right after work to get some fish oil. Giving the Barleans, I'm seeing no difference in coat- even in the winter time he still had flakes, but not as much as now.
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#110965 - 08/09/2006 11:34 AM |
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.....I'm going to the supermarket right after work to get some fish oil. Giving the Barleans, I'm seeing no difference in coat- even in the winter time he still had flakes, but not as much as now.
The supermarkets near me don't have fish oil. I have to get it at health food stores, natural food stores. But they all have it, and more than one brand.
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#110966 - 08/21/2006 04:52 PM |
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I've been adding fish oil into his diet along with his flax. One thing I did notice is he had alot of house flys on him when he goes outside. Could the house flys be biting him also?
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#110967 - 08/21/2006 06:08 PM |
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I've been adding fish oil into his diet along with his flax. One thing I did notice is he had alot of house flys on him when he goes outside. Could the house flys be biting him also?
I guess maybe there's some kind of fly that bites.......? I don't know.
He has/had skin pruritis and watery eyes, right? Did you check into the human antihistamines chlorpheniramine, hydroxyzine and clemastine? Yours really sounds like airborne seasonal stuff. I would keep up the fish oil and add the non-Benadryl antihistamine (Benadryl not having panned out the way these three have, although I think it's at least somewhat helpful).
Is the eye discharge better? Is he less itchy? How is the flaky skin?
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#110968 - 08/21/2006 06:40 PM |
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There is hardly any eye discharge. The bumps on his neck and head are gone. BUT the skin is flakey. Are those medicines otc or perscription? Thanks for all your help Connie!
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#110969 - 08/21/2006 07:01 PM |
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There is hardly any eye discharge. The bumps on his neck and head are gone. BUT the skin is flakey. Are those medicines otc or perscription? Thanks for all your help Connie!
They are RX antihistamines. They are particularly for allergic reactions involving the histamine receptors, which in dogs are largely in the skin with some in the mucus membranes (like that eye discharge).
But very flaky skin is *not* particularly a common allergy symptom. The fish oil plus Vitamin E should have started to help that by now if it was just a general dry skin thing.
He has been on fish oil about ten days, right? With Vitamin E?
Specific questions:
Is his skin itchy? Is it red or broken or weepy, or JUST flaky?
Are his paws itchy and inflamed?
Has the oil supplement improved the flakiness at all or is it still the same as it was ten days ago?
Is the flakiness all over or in patches?
Do his ears look nice and clear inside or inflamed or gunky?
What shampoo are you using and how often?
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#110970 - 08/21/2006 09:01 PM |
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Paws are good, just cleaned his ears and there was nothing on the cotton balls. The flakes are on his neck and down the middle of his back. I've been giving him a bath once a week starting last week, so this is his second bath with dermagard shampoo. Lotsa flakes in the shampoo. Right now its almost ten at nite and he's in the house for bed. His sides look like he's been bit because now those bumps are back, they weren't there this morning. He loves when I scratch him also then the flakes come. I've also been using Humilac spray. I try to spray him in the A.M. so he's outside. This stuff doesn't seem to help that much plus it stinks the dog up.
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