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01-20-2009, 10:57 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: My baby's heart
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| Leather Nose??? I've been reading alot about "leather/winter ear" and it is still quite confusing. They say it is due to fungus build-up which causes hair loss on the ear and nose bridge. I took my 8-month old baby to the vet to be checked out because she seems to be losing hair on her nose bridge. It wasn't even much to begin with When she was 5 months old, her very little and slow growing hair on the nose bridge and ear made me think she was a "red-legged yorkie". But now, the vet says she has fungus on her nose and prescribed an antiseptic shampoo to be used instead of her regular shampoo. But there's no fungus on her ears, can it still be leather ear??? Weeks have passed and I'm not sure if there's been some improvement on her nose. I bathe her twice a week and let the medicated shampoo stay for several minutes. However, it's quite impossible to do. She keeps on licking her nose (where the medication is) and she ends up vomiting after taking a bath. And she vomitted alot, I didn't even know where that much came from. So the problem is, how can the medicated shampoo cure her fungus on the nose if I can't leave a few drops on her nose bridge for several minutes??? The vet didn't recommend any other ointment of some sort. But I've read here Lotrimin is used to cure leather ear. If I use that and put the lotrimin on her nose bridge, is it safe for her to lick it off? It's so difficult I cannot do anything to keep her from doing that i don't know what more to do...just watch the hair on her nose disappear day by day
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01-20-2009, 12:29 PM | #2 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Yeah, I think I'd want an anti-fungal. But even before that, I'd want a skin-scraping to be grown out in culture so that I knew for sure what it was - so you can tailor the med to the bug. Has the vet offered that? What fungus was diagnosed?
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