Category Archives: Medication

episoothe

Posted by admin on March 15, 2015 Comments Off on episoothe

D’Artagnan had Superficial Pyoderma.  His skin is very sensitive, I know that since I had him as a puppy, someone wanted to shave his belly since the coat was long and he wan’t peeing with his leg up yet so the coat was always soaked. He shaved him and the poor thing cried all night because his skin was scratching. He never got clipped since then.

Superficial Pyoderma 2

So I puchased episoothe shampoo and conditionner. I had a good experience with virbac products so far, although I don’t use them for regular bathing. As soon as I  gave him a bath he felt already much better. He stopped scratching. I had to shampoo him twice a week  for 3 weeks to make his skin less red and scratchy.

I am currently looking for a topical cream to sooth his skin as I can’t make him stop scratching at all.

cyst part 2

Posted by admin on January 13, 2015 Comments Off on cyst part 2

In a previous post I wrote about Aramis’ under skin lumps, small cyst that were there but which didn’t cause any problems.
I was petting him and I discovered some hairs sticking together with some bloody wound under it.
I thought he got wounded from the longboard riding straight at us but it wasn’t. We went to the vet to check this wound.
She trimmed all the hair and cleaned it up. She told me it was the cyst that broke. Aramis may have scratched it and it opened. It was full of dirty fluids.
She gave me an antibiotic : Cefpodoxime 100 mg. I have to give him 1/2 tablet for 10 days, once every 24h with food .
antibiotic

This is how it looks after the vet visit
lump

I will post an update picture when it heals completely

She also told me he has 2 other ones which I knew about, they are smaller in size but if he scratches them, same thing will happen.She mentionned that I could have them removed if I wanted to.

I took couple months and now it is completely healed.

healed

Nose wrinkle issues

Posted by admin on June 8, 2014 Comments Off on Nose wrinkle issues

They both had a nose problem recently, Aramis had a bacteria growing under his fold , it was wet and smelly.

D’Artagnan had some redness and hair gone due to over licking his nose.

I researched a lot and found this great product on a bulldog forum.

Dog with a nose wrinkle  are prone to bacteria.

I bought Douxo Chlorhexidine 3% PS Pads. It is very easy to use. One pad is way too big to use for only 1 dog , so I cut
it in 4th parts.

nose1

nose2

before : D’Artagnan
As you can see he is missing some hair over his nose
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Aramis ‘wrinkle is a smell and bacteria issue which is less visible on the picture.

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