Anyone have any experience using either one of these medicines with there dog?

They are both commonly prescribed antibiotics. What is your concern specifically?

hi deanna, well my main concern is that I think my dog has become immune to the Clavamox.He has a really bad infection around his chin and nostril area.The problem is he goes on the Clavamox for a month the infection goes away but always seems to come back,this has been going on for two years now and it is getting very frustrating and very very expensive to try to cure.I was wondering if I tried the Baytril,which is also very expensive would I have better results or is it the same drug.The Clavamox works great for healing the infection right away but you cant give it for more than 30 days,so a month or two later the infection starts to come back.It is always worse in the winter than the summer why that is I do not know.Any input from anyone who has had experience using either of these drugs would be greatly appreciated.Thanks

I've used both for my animals, same results. I think you need to address the issue as to why the infection keeps coming back.

Do you feed your dog from plastic bowls? Is he getting proper supplementation? (Lack of B vitamins will cause sores around the mouth.)

What did the vet have to say?

That's the problem I don't think that the infection is ever been totally cured.I feed both my dogs from stainless steel bowls that I wash very well after each feeding the same goes for there water bowl.I'll have to look into the b-vitamins The vet did a biopsy on the dog,took a series of plugs from his nose and mouth and sent them out for results.The results came back as a bacterial infection we just can't seem to get it 100% cured.I was wondering if dogs can get virius that can never be cured.For lack of a better explanation I will compare it to herpes in humans,once a person gets the herpes virus there is no cure.They get sores every now and then and the sores go away but they come back.I know my dog does not have herpes but was wondering if he has some sort of virius that works on dogs like a herpes virius works on humans.Sorry if I am rambling on but I am simply trying to get this taken care of once and for all,I am looking for any thoughts or suggestions before I take my dog to a different vet to see if I can get better results.

Don't compare viruses to bacteria, it is only going to confuse you. Herpes is a virus. It sounds like that the bacteria are resistant. In this case just giving the same meds is only going to prolong the problem. A culture and sensitivity test sounds like it is in order to find the correct antibiotic.

I don't know what you feed your dog but this is also something to consider. My roomate has a dog that gets skin infections at least twice a year, they are triggered by allergens and he does MUCH better being fed raw and given multivitamins than he did when he was fed kibble. This is still a problem for him and it is frustrating, but it is not as severe as it was.

Thanks Deanna,I will call my vet tommorrow and see if I can set up culture and sensitivity test.I started feeding raw a week ago and so far that is going great. I know it will be a couple of weeks before I start seeing results from his new diet,maybe it will help.