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Originally Posted by kelleykrack  Hi. I have a sick baby and its not one of Kileys babies, they are fine and growing like weeds, i will post more pics as soon as I get them resized. This puppy is my 13 week old female chihuahua my husband got me for mothers day. About 3 weeks ago her hair started falling out on her side. Now she has none on the back of her legs and on one side and on her chest. I took her to the vet and she though it was just allergies since the skin scrape showed nothing. So I started the meds like she said. All was going ok and she had stopped scratching but the other night i noticed a bluish white spot in her eye. I made her an appointment with the vet for the only day I have off this week. Well tonight her entire right eye is the bluish white color. I cant tell if she can see out of it since she wont stay still long enough. She doesnt seem to be having any problems while walking around and is still eating and drinking ok. Any ideas on what this could be? Oh, shes 1 pound at 13 weeks so I believe she may be a smaller adult. |
the spot on her eye is most likely unrelated to her hairloss. Since she is a puppy i'm going to venture a guess and say that it may be demadex. Alot of times puppies get this from their mother. Its a type of mange that causes massive hair loss and itchiness. What medication did you vet put her on? also did he do a scrape from just one spot or from multiple spots? sometimes one scrape from one area will not find the demadex. I highly doubt such a young puppy has allergies. mites are more likely the culprit.
As for her eye, it sounds like she has a scratch on her cornea. Another idea is that maybe her eye isn't closing totally when she sleeps. check next time she is sleeping to make sure her eye is closing all the way. Either way the vet would need to treat the eye.
sorry your having such problems with a new puppy
hopefully she'll get better soon.