I have been through the same thing with my Sophie. She just recently got over Demodex. I hope this time for good. She had to stay on Ivermectin for almost a year along with antibiotics and vitamins. Then, she got a yeast infection and had to have a specially compounded medication that she had to take on top of that. It seems like when I started boosting the probiotics that it really made her improve. I gave her a powder probiotic that I mixed in yogurt. We also switched her to a grain free diet. ( I can't remember now what I read that suggested the grain free diet, but we were trying everything to make her better). My vet told me that sometimes dogs have to stay on a maintenance dose of Ivermectin to keep the Demodex from coming back and I hope this will not be the case with us. She seems to be doing so much better now. I really hope your little Bentley will get over this nasty stuff. |