Your dog has allergies and the vet has suggested antibiotics and Prednisone as a treatment.
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Often times after the allergies are gone and you think your dog is in the clear, the allergies reappear.
Why does this happen?
The use of too many rounds of antibiotics can result in the immune system being compromised. A dog has good flora and fauna in his stomach but if you remove the good bacteria by repeated rounds of antibiotics you run the risk of your dog developing yeast infections and staph infections.
My dog has severe allergy symptoms with spots and scabby lesions all over her body. They started at the tail and spread like wildfire.
My vet kept giving her larger and larger prescriptions for Cephalexin. First it was give her 1 capsule twice daily for a week. Then it was two weeks of medication and then finally he handed me a huge bottle of the same prescription and she was supposed to take it for 60 days.
All the doctors out there tell us to go easy on antibiotics. This was getting ridiculous and to make matters worse, the scabs came back. I fired my vet.
Anal Gland Infections
I took her to another vet who said she had a staph infection of her anal glands and from there it spread to the rest of her body.
Now we were getting somewhere because it always started at her tail and spread.
My new vet gave me Panalog which is a very good medicine for treating infections. It will prevent a cut from getting infected better than any medicine I know.
First her anal glands had to be expressed. Anal glands are two glands that are located below the anus on either side. When these glands get stopped up they often become infected.
You may have seen a dog scooting along on his butt. This is because he or she is trying to express the anal glands to let the musk out.
Once the Vet expressed the anal glands and applied the medicine she got better and better.
The vet showed me how to express the anal glands and now it is no problem for me to do it at home and save me a trip to the vet.
Now, after a week of medication she has no more scabs forming and she is finally getting better.
Now the next thing I have to do is reintroduce the good bacteria into her system. I can use capsules or yogurt with live bacteria (the good kind).
If you don't fix the immune system you will have a sick dog who is always having problems with yeast infections of the ears and anal gland infections. Anal gland infections are so common that the dog insurance companies will not cover it. They told me it wasn't one of the problems they cover.
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