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my dog has some type of mange..pls help!!
Please help!! My dog has had some type of mange since she was a puppy. We originally had her on all types of meds from the vet that had no affect and it progressively got worse. We finally had to go through 6 wks of dips for her in which it seemed to clear up after that. Now the mange is back!! I dont know what to do bc i can not afford another vet visit to get 6 more wks of dips for her! She is the sweetest, well behaved dog and i just feel so bad for her! Any suggestions? Thanks!
Has your dog actually been tested regarding the type of mange, or are you just going by the appearance?
My sister-in-law has really tiny dogs - Yorkies - that always LOOKED like they had mange - it was awful - hard to look at. After a zillion visits to the vet without a permanent resolution, the vet suggested that she start feeding them exclusively on boiled chicken and rice. That was years ago. It did take a while for their skin and hair to recover, but they look great - no more problems. Once a week she prepares the food and freezes it in portions, taking one out of the freezer each night for the next day's use. A job, but it works where nothing else did.
My sister-in-law has really tiny dogs - Yorkies - that always LOOKED like they had mange - it was awful - hard to look at. After a zillion visits to the vet without a permanent resolution, the vet suggested that she start feeding them exclusively on boiled chicken and rice. That was years ago. It did take a while for their skin and hair to recover, but they look great - no more problems. Once a week she prepares the food and freezes it in portions, taking one out of the freezer each night for the next day's use. A job, but it works where nothing else did.
One of my dogs, a pound rescue, had demodectic mange (Demodex) when I got him. He was treated with a series of 8 Dectomax injections by the vet.
Demodectic mange (Demodex) is notoriously difficult to shift, dips certainly won't do the job.
If you don't have money for another vet visit you might just have to borrow money. You can't just leave you poor dog to suffer.
Demodectic mange (Demodex) is notoriously difficult to shift, dips certainly won't do the job.
If you don't have money for another vet visit you might just have to borrow money. You can't just leave you poor dog to suffer.
I had a chronic mange dog who was a royal mess when we found him. He was about 6 weeks old and hardly had any hair left at all - aside from being skin and bones and full of intestinal parasites. He had both demodex and sarcoptic mange. This was back in 1990 when the only thing available was mitaban dip.
When young dogs suffer from chronic mange, that means the immune system isn't functioning properly. Most dogs have a few demodex mange mites, but they don't react to it because their immune systems fight off the effects.
You CAN keep the mange under control with regular dips. My dog started out with dips every 2 weeks. Gradually that went to once a month, once a quarter and then 6 months. It was nearly 5 years before they were completely defeated, but the last 3 years he only needed to be treated once or twice a year.
You just have to learn to recognize the early symptoms and keep up with the dips. That's probably the easiest and cheapest route for you to go. Even better, if you have a good relationship with your vet, he should be able to sell you the mitaban and leave it up to you to decide when to use it. It's a lot cheaper to do it yourself rather than having the vet's staff do it. Just be sure to have them train you and follow the instructions. Most people don't leave it on long enough or don't do well with the head area.
The systemic method of treating mange is to basically poison the entire dog. The mites suck the poisoned blood and die. I believe Ivermectin is the current drug of choice these days, which is pretty stout stuff used for heartworms. Sometimes the dog gets so sick from the Ivermectin that he has to spend some time at the vet clinic as an inpatient. Personally, I prefer to stick with the old fashioned way and do the dips.
I know it sounds like a lot of work, but it's well worth the time and effort. We had Travis for over 13 years and he was the greatest. Everyone - and I mean EVERYONE - who met him fell in love with him. I can't imagine what our lives would have been like without him. :-)
I get really disturbed when I see dogs with terrible mange in shelters who get put down ONLY because they have mange. The truth is that most shelters don't have the money, time or the staff to treat it. If the dog is as bad shape as mine was, antibiotics are necessary to treat the secondary skin staph infection. We had to do a few rounds during our dog's first year.
Have a talk with your vet before you do anything drastic. Hopefully he'll sell you the dip and let you handle it yourself. If you get a big fat NO, see a different vet. Please don't give up!
When young dogs suffer from chronic mange, that means the immune system isn't functioning properly. Most dogs have a few demodex mange mites, but they don't react to it because their immune systems fight off the effects.
You CAN keep the mange under control with regular dips. My dog started out with dips every 2 weeks. Gradually that went to once a month, once a quarter and then 6 months. It was nearly 5 years before they were completely defeated, but the last 3 years he only needed to be treated once or twice a year.
You just have to learn to recognize the early symptoms and keep up with the dips. That's probably the easiest and cheapest route for you to go. Even better, if you have a good relationship with your vet, he should be able to sell you the mitaban and leave it up to you to decide when to use it. It's a lot cheaper to do it yourself rather than having the vet's staff do it. Just be sure to have them train you and follow the instructions. Most people don't leave it on long enough or don't do well with the head area.
The systemic method of treating mange is to basically poison the entire dog. The mites suck the poisoned blood and die. I believe Ivermectin is the current drug of choice these days, which is pretty stout stuff used for heartworms. Sometimes the dog gets so sick from the Ivermectin that he has to spend some time at the vet clinic as an inpatient. Personally, I prefer to stick with the old fashioned way and do the dips.
I know it sounds like a lot of work, but it's well worth the time and effort. We had Travis for over 13 years and he was the greatest. Everyone - and I mean EVERYONE - who met him fell in love with him. I can't imagine what our lives would have been like without him. :-)
I get really disturbed when I see dogs with terrible mange in shelters who get put down ONLY because they have mange. The truth is that most shelters don't have the money, time or the staff to treat it. If the dog is as bad shape as mine was, antibiotics are necessary to treat the secondary skin staph infection. We had to do a few rounds during our dog's first year.
Have a talk with your vet before you do anything drastic. Hopefully he'll sell you the dip and let you handle it yourself. If you get a big fat NO, see a different vet. Please don't give up!
When my beagle was 2 mo old we went thru the same thing..The dips made him soo sick , so I took him to University Vet Hospital in Illinios and the gave him heartguard hearworm medicine and he took one every day for a month, he is now 5 yrs old and has never had it again. I do believe I gave him some fish oil supplements also.
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Well I don't know if what I say will help, as it seems you have had treatment for this....
But my other dog once got mange (sarcoptic mange, which the vet thought was caught from wild foxes, out in the fields)
A subcutaneous injection solved this instantly. I am sorry I don't recall what medicine was used. But there were no dips or baths involved. The mange mite was identified from a skin scraping, and then the injection did the trick....
But of course there are different types of mange.
I do hope someone else will help you out here, who has maybe more experience with mange.
But my other dog once got mange (sarcoptic mange, which the vet thought was caught from wild foxes, out in the fields)
A subcutaneous injection solved this instantly. I am sorry I don't recall what medicine was used. But there were no dips or baths involved. The mange mite was identified from a skin scraping, and then the injection did the trick....
But of course there are different types of mange.
I do hope someone else will help you out here, who has maybe more experience with mange.
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