Saturday, November 26, 2011

Improvement with New Homeopathic Remedy

Dr Loops sent two remedies: Graph LM/3 and Calc-C 30C.  Before receiving them, I had to quickly find a local vet to replace Banfield and found the VCA Animal Healing Center.  Dr Gabriel is recommending a full thyroid panel but also prepared a homeopathic remedy consisting of galium-heel/lamioflur/hespar/traumeel.  I'm giving Ziggy 5 drops 3 times per day.  Started that on Monday evening. Today is Saturday and he is doing much better.  The skin seems to be healing and drying out.  The ears are clear.  He sleeps through the night better without the breathing problems.  Dr Gabriel also recommended an enzyme kit from Nzymes.com which I just received and will be starting Ziggy on it this weekend.

I feel that I should wait and not give Dr Loops remedies just yet.  Otherwise, I won't know which remedies are having which effects.  Dr Gabriel is also interested in knowing what Dr Loops is sending so I want to go by her recommendation as well.

The Nzymes website has a list of foods that yeasty dogs can eat.  I'm considering trying out one of the dog foods they are recommending but I think I will ask Dr Gabriel about that as well and maybe it's better if I wait for this skin issue to finish clearing up before changing his diet.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Skin Issues that Will Not Heal

This latest round of skin breakouts are not healing up even though he is on medication.  I have to wash his skin every morning with the Malapet/Malaseb shampoo and everyday by mid-afternoon he's breaking out and smelling yeasty again.  It's ongoing and I don't know what to do to resolve it.  This infection is on both back legs and under the front left armpit.  Here are latest pics.



Thursday, November 10, 2011

Pennsylvania Allergies

We're in Yardley, PA now and Ziggy's allergies have gone crazy again.  We have Banfield here so I was able to get him right in to a vet who had instant access to his medical records.  She's very nice and I like her a lot.  She put him on Ketoconazole but that wasn't enough to solve the problem so I had to go back and get him on an antibiotic.  I hate doing that but it's the only thing I can do to get this under control.  He was itching and biting and licking all thru the night and totally miserable.  I may have to reconnect with Dr Loops and try the homeopathic option again.