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Could this be scabies? Please help!?
My mini-dachshund scratches and chews himself all the time. He has done it pretty much since we first got him at 6 weeks old and he is now four months. At first we thouht it was due to fleas so we put him on Comfortis and that has worked for the fleas. We took him to the vet and he said it was probably a flea allergy so he said to give him children's benadryl. He lost his appetite and it didn't help him. I called the vet back about this and was told by another doctor (there are several at this clinic) to take him off the benadryl. I did and we took him back that night to see what else they could do with him (this was Tuesday). They gave us an antehistamine but this vet said it might be scabies so we are supposed to put Revolution on him every two weeks (I have three tubes). I still haven't seen any difference. My question is should I have seen one by now and do you think its scabies? We hold him all the time and he sleeps in our bed. Wouldn't we have gotten it too?
He did a skin scrape and said it wasn't demodex, but that he couldn't rule out scabies because they were harder to find? But he did that thing where he rubbed his ear and his foot started thumping. Also, he has a couple of scabs on his back from scratching so much but no hair loss.
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- LuvsdardLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
My puppy had this when we got him. Give the revolution a few weeks to work. You might see a difference after a week. If you get it, it'll go away on it's own after a week or so cause it's on the wrong host. I had it on my arms and it went away. No big deal. Just don't give him anything with cortisone in it. It'll make it worse. And my dogs scrapings came back negative also twice. Is he losing fur around his ears or around the side of his belly? That's where mine lost it.
- 1 decade ago
First you need to find a new vet. Then have them do a skin scrape on your pup. Then they can tell you what is wrong with your dog instead of guessing. The skin scrape will look for Demodex and Scabies. He may have demodex, which the revloution wont help. Only the skin scrape would tell you for sure.
Source(s): 7 Years RVT - 1 decade ago
It could also be something as simple as dry skin. Is he flakey?? Try giving him an oatmeal bath, lotions, oils... Things of that nature. Especially since a vet isn't picking up on it..that means it might not be something internally. Try that a few times and see how that works. good lcuk :)
