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Originally Posted by bernie435  Our 11 year old is starting to have skin problems...the vet says it is a staph infection, we give her the meds and when the meds run out the infection comes back. It is dry, scaley skin that seems to itch and hurt at the same time....I was thinking that maybe we could supplement her diet or change her food or something...giving pills all the time cannot be good for her.
Does anyone have a suggestion????
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get to a dermatologist and also have a thyroid panel done as due to age your dog may have hypothyroid which goes along with skin issues especially since your dog has not had allergies prior correct?
The reason the antibiotic is not working is for skin issues they have to be given for 25 days and sometimes more. Mine is on second round as after 25 days it came back 3 weeks later so now she is on day 30 and we are using clindamyacin. Are you using simplicef as that is the first one of choice? If the staff came back then your vet should have done a skin culture sent to lab and got a antibiotic sensitivity test to get the exact antibiotic to kill it.
Also you need to bath weekly in chlorhexedine shampoo or benzoyl shampoo - chlorhexedine is milder but both are very drying of the skin but it will kill it topically - are you doing this ?