i know i know someone is going to say "search it" and i have... spent many a hour looking for this... layla has SUPER dry skin.. all she does is itch... she is getting olive oil on her food and i am giving her oatmeal baths... my question is how often should i give her the oatmeal bath??? i feel like i dont' know what to do to help her... i gave her a bath last week... and it was good for a while.. but now we are back to itching like crazy.. can someone PLEASE help.. i jsut hate seeing her like this. any other suggestions on how to relieve the itching... i know i'm doing "long-term" things to help but she needs relief tonight!! thanks in advance. |
Winter weather always dry out our skin and our dogs as well. I don't know how to help you with a quick fix unless you don't mind your baby looking a little oily for awhile. It isn't really oily, wont rub off on anything, but does look oily. Anyway for a quick fix you can add a some liquid lanolin to some conditioner that is watered down so you can just spray and leave on. In the meantime, put her on real food and give her omega fatty acid each day on her food. Like fish oil or cod liver oil. I use the #1 All Systems Pure Lanolin Plus Skin & Hair Emollients mixed with #1 All systems Protein Lotion http://mjmcompany.com/1allsystems-grooming.htm When I bathe the girls, I use the # 1 All Systems super cleaning conditioning shampoo then I do a hot oil treatment on them. |
Have you tried taking her off her food? Sometimes they are allergic to chicken, corn, grains etc.......... My poodle is allergic to corn. She itched like crazy. I took her food and fed her homemade and it dissapeared. Turns out she is allergic to the corn. |
thanks so much!! she has no corn or chicken in her diet.. because i was worried she might allergic.... as far as the cod live oil.. where do you get that??? like in a capsule?? do you just break it open and put it on their food??? thanks so much!! |
Fish oil! I have very dry skin and in winter it's worse. A couple of years ago it started flaking around my nose and even my eyebrows were flaking. Apparently it was the start of eczema. Anyway, at the time, I started on fish oil for other health reasons, and the flaking immediately went away. If you read Dr. Perricone's skin cure (he has a website that is very informative), he talks about how important the right oils are for proper functioning of our organs and for smooth radiant skin, meaning healthy. Other diet authors talk about beef as well, that in western culture because of the way we raise beef (fattening them up in farm warehouses and feeding them weird feed instead of letting them be naturally grass fed grazing in pastures) is particularly high in arachadonic acid which is what causes PH imbalances in our skin. In order to properly rebalance PH, it's important to counteract all that arachadonic acid with EFAs and GFAs(?) available in fish oil. Those oils are essential fatty acids and are needed for overall health, but the effects show up in skin first. They counteract arachadonic acid from beef. In Iceland, for instance, they feed their dogs fish rather than beef. In fact, there is a chew for dogs from Iceland made from fish skin which is completely digestible. It's made by Elinora and you can find and order the chews online. Dogs love it and it does provide some essential fatty acids. In order to raise the essential fatty acid levels in your puppy faster, you might try opening a fish-oil capsule and mixing it into your pup's food at a couple of feedings a day or buy liquid codfish oil and mix a spoon into the food. Start with a small amount first and build up, as it tends to burp up if you start off too high. Also, I would look for food that does not contain beef. Try food with lamb and chicken instead of beef since most lamb is not raised in farm factories and chicken is low in arachadonic acid. |
Missing Link:thumbup: It's got all the Omega oils, plus the lignans in the ground flax seed, and Blackstrap molasses, and tons of other good stuff:) Luna was SO dry, flaky, and itchy when we got her, I was calling her Flakey:laugh: The ML really did make a difference in her skin and coat, it's miraculous:D |
Do you run a humidifier in your house to keep the humidity at 50% or above? Also as someone else said, it could be food alergies. Are you rinsing her well wehn you bathe her? Do you use a conditioner? |
What do you feed? |
layla eats Bluf Buffalo (it's 100% natural) Lamb Formula. She gets conditoner after her bath and we rinse and rinse... toinght we will be putting a humidifier on and we do use missing link however i have found she has been itchier since... but we are going to try the fish oil capsule tomorrow... anyone have an idea of how often she should have her oatmeal baths? |
Blue Buffalo is good - I have no idea. I know they can still be allergic to a protein source, so if she is on lamb try duck or something else, but that's not likely to be the problem. I'm stumped... |
According to our dog trainer who was asked how often to bathe a puppy the other day in front of us by one of the other "trainees" in class, you should only be bathing a puppy once a month. Now personally, I consider bathing once a month to be precious little. We asked our vet the same question and she told us that we could bathe our puppy every other week. So that is what we've done. However, since we weren't using oatmeal shampoo, the last time we bathed her, she got very itchy. So we're sticking with once every other week and oatmeal shampoo only. And we have our puppy chewing on the fish skin chews as well (she loves them), and I'm going to add in a fish oil cap once a day to see if that helps too. You can order Elinora's fish skin chews on this page: http://www.sitstay.com/store/edibles/fish1.shtml |
Here is an interesting article about why we need the essential fatty acids of fish oil, as well as why this particular fish oil (Cod liver) is better than others. You might find it helpful as far as your puppy's skin problem: http://www.mercola.com/forms/carlsons.htm |
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The cod liver oil comes in gel caps. I just bite the top and squeeze into their food once a day. Be careful with the flax oil as it can cause diarrhea. I just use whole flax seeds when I make their peanut butter balls. If your babies can eat tuna, sardines or salmon, then those would be really helpful, but take it a little at a time to see if they have any upsets. Most Yorkies seem to have a delicate tummy. If you add beef, then buy free range beef. It cost more but they are not given hormones or chemicals and are range fed. Chicken can be more of an allergy food than beef, so go slow with it and again use the free range chickens. |
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