Our dog Chubby is about 5 years old. He suffers from chronic yeast infections in his ear. He has had 4 surgery’s and they work for a little while but it comes back with a vengeance after about two or three weeks.
I have used yeast killing acid, and herb that I cant recall the name of, monostat seven, ring worm cream, silver drops, feeding him yogurt and a lot of it at that, some kind of oil like stuff from an apothecary but cant remember the name of that either, boric acid, vinegar, and tee tree oil. This list of things tried really is a lot longer but I have forgotten a lot of the things we have tried.
The poor boys ear starts smelling like road kill that’s set in the hot sun and baked real good for about three days! He often shakes his head from the pain and cannot tolerate anyone messing with it because it hurts him so badly!
The vet (I have taken him to 6 different vets) all say it is a yeast problem and its common in the lab breeds. All vets agree that the sharpie in him compounds the problem. They have all prescribed one thing or another and nothing works for very long.
Does anyone, anyone at all know what I can do for my poor chubby! I would love for him to one day live a pain free life!
have you tried rubbing plain yogart on the infection instead of just feeding it to him. at this point, i think i would try anything. i hope you can find something that works for the poor doggy. it sounds like you are trying hard. good luck.
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I never once thought about putting the yogurt INSIDE his ear! LOL I will try this if it doesn’t work I will start looking around at the dry dog foods and see what I can come up with!
I also have a lab with terrible ear infections. It once cost a $4000 hospital stay. We thought he was going to die. He is a lot better now than he used to be. We changed his food to Royal Canin Lab formula. It has helped a lot with not only his infections but his endless shedding. It is a little expensive, but less expensive than vet bills for sure. We puncture a vitamin E capsule and a fish (salmon is best) oil capsule and squeeze it on his food. Just the regular kind you can buy at the store for people are fine. He gets a dog multivitamin too. Keeping the immune system up helps a lot. What will work better than yogurt is to get some probiotics from a health store. The kind that is in the fridge section, not the regular shelf. Those are no good. If it is not in the fridge most of the probiotics have died and that is what is in yogurt that works. It is called acidophilus. I also clean his ears often with witch hazel and flip his ears open when he is sleeping so they will dry out a little. Its the trapped moisture that helps the yeast grow. I used to work for a vitamin manufacturer that had an animal product line so I learned a lot. I hope this information helps you out. It has taken many years of trial and error for us to bring our dogs problems under control so I can sympathize.
Well it took me a while but I found a dry dog food that is all natural and no dyes and non of that other stuff listed above. Its called premium edge. I also got this brand for the new puppy and for the ferrets. Let me tell you it was harder to find something like that in cat food than it was dog food! Premium edge was the ONLY one I could find in the cat foods!
I have also bought plain yogurt and have been putting that in Chubbies ear every day, so far the smell has gone down and he isn’t hanging his head as low as he was before. He has been on the new dog food for about a week now and LOL he loves it! He eats it more than he did the other food and his coat isn’t as dry and flaky.
One other thing I did was mix all those foods together. All the animals kept getting into the other animals food and would get belly aches and stuff from the dogs eating all cat food and the ferrets from eating all dog food. So I thought well I cant get them to stop it so I just went and got a big trash can and mixed everything up real good and they all get the same thing now!
I also bought from the feed store some multi vitamins for dogs, cats, and ferrets. I bought several bottles of each and mixed them up in the food too.
After all of the animals being on this for close to a week now I am seeing a change in their coats and little Oliver (my sweet baby boy ferret who never seems to put any weight on and has always been skin and bones) some actual weight gain!
The total cost of doing this was 90 bucks. I am thinking since I bought every thing in 10, 20 and 30 pound bags and the vitamins in 200, 300 and 500 count bottles I can look to be spending that approximately once a month and that seems affordable.
I also got yogurt drops for training my sweet new baby wolf/dog. She LOVES them and will do anything in order to get one! LOL lets hope that it works on the house training thing! She is proving a tuff case to housebreak!
i have never heard of premium edge, but congradulations on finding something that seems to be helping and thanks for letting us know how the dog is doing. any improvement is always better than none.
Posts: 129 | Location: anywhere usa | Registered: 09-10-05
