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Originally Posted by sferrini  I totally agree, as I am going through all of this right now. Miracle gets pumpkin and vension, that's it. She had her second visit to the derm doc yesterday. She is done with the steroids but is still on simplacef and was given anouther round of antibiotics for the staph infection she had, this will be her last two weeks. However, we will have to see how it goes from here, as we found another flea on her. For whatever reason, she is the only one that has them and ONE keeps popping up every couple of months. I know the saying where there is one, there are more, however we NEVER find anymore, so this could just be a flea allergy (hoping it is that simple), she was given medicine that kills them in 15 mins., he called it birth control for fleas. One she will take for the month along with my other babies and the other one she will get one pill every other day. So as of right now we are concentrating on a flea allergy, and he did say I could feed her whatever I wanted but I'm going to stick with venison and pumpkin at least for a little while longer.
This is not a quick and cheap process as I am already in over $1,000, but I will do whatever I can to help my baby feel better. |
no it is not a quick process at all and sadly there is no real cure just keeping dog comfortable and eliminating as many things as you can to keep them comfortable and on as little drugs as possible.
The reason your dog has fleas and others do not is because fleas gravatate to dogs with poor immune systems and i saw it first hand with dd as they used revolution to rule out scabies when this all first started and i took her and my other two to a friends by the beach - got home and dex and demi had 3 or 4 fleas and dee dee was covered. I was furious called the mfg of revolution and said wth is going on she has flea protection my other two do not have hardly any and she is the only one with flea protection and they said it does not keep them off the dog only kills the cycle so i said we are DONE with flea protection then as the flea will still bite her and cause allergic reaction so why put a chemical on her already sensitive skin - joke no way. We do not have a big flea problem by us which is good as that whole incident confirmed to me what holistic vets have said is a dog with a poor immune system will get fleas where as dogs with a strong immune system rarely does.
The flea protection the vet gave your dog sounds like CAPSTAR.
So glad you are finally getting some answers with her
