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02-17-2007, 05:48 AM | #16 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Staten Island, NY
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| Thanks! He doesn't seem to be uncomfortable, in pain, itchy or anything else. He's very happy and playful, thank goodness. It's just not a pretty site and so far I don't see or feel any more bumpy things. Today starts Day 6 on the meds. If his medicine clears his staph up, maybe I should try it for myself, since my doctors don't have a clue how to treat me! Maybe I should go to the vet for me......he's such a sweetheart too! |
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02-20-2007, 09:58 PM | #17 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Staten Island, NY
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| Update Just an update on the staph infection after 10 days on medication: No Change. It's still just as bad. Took him back to the vet and we are now on a different medication, Cephaloxin (Amoxicillan), for the next 20 days. I was also told not to use any Tea Tree/Oatmeal shampoo but I was given a different medicated shampoo - Malaseb. Hope this all does the trick! |
02-20-2007, 10:18 PM | #18 | |
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02-20-2007, 10:46 PM | #19 |
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| Years ago I had a schnauzer that had a skin condition that looked exactly like this as well as bladder stones. My vet kept treating the skin infection with different meds without success. So I took her to another vet for a second opinion where she was treated much more aggressively. The new vet gave her an injection of prednisone right there to boost her immunne system then he sent us home with oral steroids, antibiotics and a medicated shampoo. I had to bathe her every day for 7 days then every other day then every 2 days, etc for a month. We saw improvement in the first couple of days and she was completely healed in a week, but we had to continued the course of treatment until completion. We also changed her food to one without corn. She never had another problem with her skin after that. Maybe you should get a second opinion? Good luck!
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02-21-2007, 11:41 AM | #20 | |
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My daughter is home sick with the flu and I have not spent as much time taking care of her as I have with Ralphie! Poor furbaby! | |
02-21-2007, 11:45 AM | #21 | |
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02-25-2007, 01:08 AM | #22 |
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02-25-2007, 03:38 AM | #23 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Staten Island, NY
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| He stopped developing bumps and he might be a bit better but his skin is so so so dry in the same area. I am using the Malaseb medicated shampoo which is supposed to help. He has to stay on the medication for another 2 weeks....ugh! I'll keep you all posted. I hope it's gone before then but it's doubtful. And thank you so much for asking! |
02-25-2007, 06:09 AM | #24 |
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| New Vet... Cephlasporins are not very good for staph, skin or structure......you need a macrolide or erythromycin type antibiotic.....sounds like your current Vet does not know a lot about antibiotics..... I am sorry your Yorkie is going thru this.....and when they are on antibiotics for a long time then they get diahhea ....because you are killing the good bacteria too.... Good luck... |
03-01-2007, 08:34 PM | #25 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Staten Island, NY
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| UPDATE: I'm close to giving up! He's a bit better but the staph persists, the dry, flaky skin is still here, maybe a bit better too, but I keep bathing him with the Malaseb and for the one day he seems better as that shampoo descales him quite well. I think the meds have done nothing special, as others have stated they might not work, and I hate keeping him on them. The shampoo is disgusting. I'm not so sure I want to keep using that either. I called the vet and I have one more week to keep him on the Cetadrops and then he wants to switch him to something else! ugh... If I thought for sure it was the Hills U/D prescription food, I'd switch, but then what happens to his bladder stone condition? Can't afford to put him thru surgery ever again if I can help it. I hope this ends soon. I do catch him scratching every so often but he doesn't seem to be affected...he is happy, playful and is eating well. I'm more miserable than him. I honestly thought he picked this up at the vet's when he had his stone/neutering done, but someone told me their baby got it at the groomer when they cut too close by the tail, and that's where he was the week before surgery and it's at the base of his spine above the tail area. Now I'm afraid to go back to the same groomer. What do you think? The groomer, the vet?????? Hope everyone and their furbabies are well. Looking forward to spring soon. I can't wait! Hate the cold NY winter weather. |
03-06-2007, 04:37 AM | #26 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Staten Island, NY
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| SUCCESS my way! Hope this is the final episode of Ralphie's staph infection. I'm not so sure the meds or the medicated shampoo did the final job but I decided to take matters in my own hands a little more aggressively, and although I was not supposed to deviate from his prescription diet food, I have. I added a bit of raw egg yolk, Missing Link mixed in a tablespoon of plain organic Water Buffalo yogurt (ugh!), which he ate a flash since he is not fond of the Hill's stuff, and I have been using good old gooey and messy A & D Ointment mixed with my $60 prescription Vusion (which is the glorified Desitin). I stopped using the Malaseb shampoo which did descale him but seemed to make his skin worse by the second day, drier and flakier. His skin looks so much better but now I'm wondering: HOW do I shampoo out all the greasy stuff from his fur??? I'm not bathing him yet as I'm still applying my ointments to his skin but I don't see this washing out very easily. Thanks for everyone's help! I hope this ends the nightmare! |
03-06-2007, 08:51 PM | #27 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Madison
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| Hi, I'm really glad to hear your dog is doing better! I know it's a little late, but I thought it would be worth mentioning that I took Teagan to the vet today because she had symptoms just like you've described (something resembling a pimple, then a blackish crusty spot) and the vet said it was a mild staph infection. He prescribed Lincocin, 1/2 pill 2 x day for 2 weeks. |
03-07-2007, 04:36 AM | #28 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Staten Island, NY
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| I hope Teagan recovers alot quicker than Ralphie. It took a few antibiotics to get it right - he's still on the medicine until next Monday - plus my own intervention...probably the reason I never go to doctors myself. I stay far away! Ralphie started the same way, just one small crusty spot but it started to spread over his backbone near the tail and it remained confined to that area, thank goodness no further. Good luck and keep me posted! |
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