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Originally Posted by dwerten  have blood work done and have 6 panel thyroid done as thyroid can cause skin issues and related to hormones and may fit within her just having puppies and her hormones out of whack-- you have to do 6 panel and have vet send to michigan state lab or dr jean dodds. Hypothyroid is common in this breed and is an auto immune disease -- if nothing in diet changed this could be it or could be seasonal allergies to pollen and dust in changing of seasons
also do you think she picked up a mite from puppies as mites make them real itchy so maybe get a few skin scrapings as mites are hard to detect |
ok. I just talked to the vet and he said to bring her back when she gets a little more itchy. The only diet change I really did was to preimum dog food as opposed to ceasars which is what she was eating but again this was before and a little after the itching started. In addition, when I look at the symptoms for food allergy she doesn't have them. She is itching and biting at her paws and a little nasaly. They did do a skin test on her, her eye was really bad and he did a scraping on it three times and came up with nothing. I don't know that he "actually" tested for mites but he did do a skin test.
She is allergic to dust mites, according to her previous owners but that is the only thing they said.
I will be taking her to the vet and will ask for the six panel blood test.
thank you