Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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A truly itchy dog will stop in the middle of something else (eating/playing/walking), to scratch.
I agree 100%.
This is a very good sign, IMO, and might indicate that if there is an inhalant allergy, it's mild.
I would start fish oil (anti-inflammatory) and E right away and see what happens.
If not enough, there are many more options (keeping up with the fish oil and E, though), like rinsing pollen off after a day in grass, doing antihistamine trials if necessary, and more.
No greasy or waxy areas on the skin. Her back end is what smells yeasty or just funky (as my husband says) My lab is allergic to flea saliva and is prone to flea bite dermatitis. Your right it usually occurs on the back and base of tail. I know she does not have flea bite dermatitis. Comfortis is a new Flea pill. It is a chewable beef flavored tablet. The active ingredient is Spinosad. You administer it once a month with food. It kills the fleas within 30 minutes. It is 100% effective within 4 hours. What I don't like about it is it is an insecticide.
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What I don't like about it is it is an insecticide.
Have you looked into the diatomaceous earth? It is carried here at leerburg, and it works SO well.
We have fleas capable of carrying off small weenie dogs here, so I was thrilled to find out about this stuff.
Yes, the fish oil is the grizzly oil. Helps loads with skin problems.
When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
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Is fish oil the same as Grizzly Salmon oil? Can I give her human Vitamin E and if so, do you know what dosage. She weighs approx. 28 pounds.
I'd get the 100 IU Vitamin E if you can find it (preferably mixed tocopherols).
If you cannot, then 200 is OK.
E doesn't come in a ton of sizes, but it's different from the other oil-soluble vits: it doesn't have a toxic accumulation dose for dogs at anything near the amounts in gelcaps.
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I'm thinking that if there is vaginal odor and 6 a.m. scratching, etc., that there might possibly be two things going on.
And maybe both are just starting. Can you remind me if this pup is over 6 months?
So I'd start with the fish oil and E (which is good for virtually all dogs anyway, IMO, who are not on RX blood thinners), and I'd have the vet swab her vagina. (Recent anal gland expressing alerted it -- the connection between that and vaginal infection. Another forum member just took her female to the vet yesterday with what smelled like a yeasty - funky - vagina, and it turned out to be bacterial.)
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