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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  I'm glad you're heading to the vet soon - he sounds miserable. It could be an allergy - most likely it is either seasonal or environmental - or a food allergy (which is the least common). The first step though is to rule out any pests and/or skin infection/invasion or fungus.
If allergies are diagnosed, you may want to consider Atopica (if you can't prevent exposure to the allergen, that is) - my Marcel does great on it.
If your vet cannot properly diagnose the issue, I can't recommend highly enough that you see a Vet Dermatologist. I had to go that route - and while it's not cheap, it's worth every penny to solve the problem. |
100% agree i have an allergy dog as well and we work with dermatologist - they get down to the issue much faster - food allergy is 10% of the time so since you are using frontline and itching all over and you are not itching so probably not scabies or demodex as demodex there are spots you would see. Scabies can be ruled out by revolution but sounds like environmental as well as food -- what are you feeding? if itching like this i would switch slowly to venison and sweet potato by natural balance as even if not food allergy totally all allergy dogs need to be on a limited ingredient food. Even if on flea protection the flea can still bite the dog and cause itching up to 3 weeks - flea protection only prevents flea infestation not bites. Flea allergy affects the back half of the dog only. so the scabs on back end could be flea related unless staph infection which would be all over the back. Most allergy dogs are also allergic to oatmeal so do not use oatmeal shampoo - only use hypoallergenic shampoo and the ones i like are blue hypoallergenic sold at petco, dr bronners mild unscented baby shampoo, and earthbath as i prefer all natural to any chemicals.