 Using q-tips
Apparently there are conflicting opinions on using q-tips in dogs' ears! My furboy had a yeast infection as well as earmites when I brought him home. Unfortunately the examining vet didn't discover the mites and didn't even mention the fact I needed to keep the hair plucked out of his ears. Teddy began the head shaking the very day this vet checked his ears which makes me think the mites were there and he stirred them up! I was visiting in another state the next week or so and noticed Teddy shaking his head quite often and he had a funky smell about his ears...which was yeast. I took him to a vet and she showed me how to pluck his ear hair as well as clean them with a fairly long q-tip. She really got down in there deep! She gave me a drawing of a dogs ear showing how it curves..she said I should not be afraid to get in there with a q-tip as it would be impossible to reach the eardrum with it. She also said I should not need to do that very often if I keep the hair plucked, which by the way, a curved hemostat works really well to get the hair out. |