Dog has infected ears.?

This web site had a recipe for a home made ear cleaner. The ingredients are easy to get from a pharmacy. White vinegar is one of them and will reduce the ph so yeast won't thrive, but the other ingredients (alcohol, boric acid powder, betadine anteseptic) make a more effective combination. I would make some up and use it every day when you see your dog scratching their ear or if it smells or has discharge. Squirt some in and massage the ear canal well. When is cleared up, use it weekly for prevention. Try to trim any hair from the opening in the ear to help air get to it. http://www.zimfamilycockers.com/EarClean%E2%80%A6

Also go read the ingredients panel on your dog food as grain allergies (grains with gluten, similar to celiac disease in a human) might be contributing to yeast overgrowth and ear infections. Most vets were not trained in pet nutrition and will recommend popular foods (or the Science D*** they sell) but not tell you to eliminate grains. Check these sites to understand good dog foods:

http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/

http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/

Check what you are feeding. Is there any corn, wheat, soy, by-products or chicken? If so, get off that and onto a food that doesn't contain these ingredients. I would also request (actually insist) upon a thyroid blood panel. Recurrent infections anywhere usually are the result of a compromised immune system, caused by either allergies or Hypothyroidism. Have your vet send the blood to Michigan State (they all have the address) because you need a complete analysis, not just the T3 and T4 that most local labs test.

Hypothyroidism is extremely common in all breeds and getting worse all the time. Most vets are not keeping up and do not do enough testing for the condition and many breeders are not testing their breeding stock in order to control this. It's not an expensive test, and treatment is not expensive either.

Part of the solution (IMO) is to stop the ear infection issue on the Coon hound. While moisture is not good & can encourage ear problems, a change in diet is generally the most helpful. Dogs eating a food high in grains (corn, wheat, oats, barley, etc.) tend to have a lot of inflammation due to the grains & they largely digest into SUGARS (which feeds yeast) the basis of may ear problems, while allergies are another major cause. Corn & wheat are the top two food allergens for dogs. If you 1) spray the ear flap with Bitter Apple or Fooey the licking may stop or be reduced. Option 2) is to muzzle the Weim, so she can't lick the

Totally understand your dilemna. I have similar but not so bad with my boy.

He came in as a foster dog at 18 months old and his ears were bad. He had been fed on rubbish Bakers which is one of the worst possible in the UK.

I transferred him onto raw diet as that is what I feed and had his ears flushed when he was under GA being castrated.

It has definitely improved but NOT gone completely, and I have, to a milder degree, the same problems as you do in that he will let me clean the surface but I can't get drops down very easily unless I squeeze a liquid from the cotton wool to disguise what I am doing. Most of this however is because the stupid vet took him and with 2 others, pinned him to the ground to get ear drops in his ear. Not the way to do it with a large rottie male. (my fault in allowing it, but I had a broken wrist at the time and couldn't hold him securely)

I believe it is probably time for another veterinary flush out, but have no secret remedy to solve the problem. There are many many remedies on the market but I have not found any that really do the job.

hi, my daughters staffordshire dog has had the same,she had to do drops clean out ears and antibiotics too, vet suggested to do allergies test too and similar to your dogs came back.now she used to wash kitchen floors with flash and disinfectant daily as she has a child and muddy dog prints everywhere in this weather and i said maybe shes laying on it and absorbd it into her skin,she stopped using the cleaning stuff and 3 weeks later the dogs ears have cleared up.id say stop using detergents conditioner when washing dog bed or blankets,if you use fabreze to spray sofas etc to keep house smelling fresh which we all do when we have pets,alo floor cleaners bleach etc.i also think that dogs will and often do scratch there ears with paws and if they walked through anything like us its on their nails and gets put into open places like eyes ears etc. try it and see if it helps at all it did for my daughter and if after a few weeks the dogs still bad then ask vet to perform ear drainage operation,it is under anethestic,and doesnt take long that way they get deeper in swill out debree and if it has a moved deeper into the canal it will get all of it properly out to stop repeat infections that way my daughters dog had same op.its not fun to see them suffering and it needs to be done ,also a shot of steriods will speed up recovery.hope it works out and yur dogs well soon.

The thyroid gland is situated at the front of the throat, below the Adam’s apple. It comprises two lobes that lie on either side of the windpipe, joined in front by an isthmus. The thyroid gland secretes hormones to regulate many metabolic processes, including growth and energy expenditure. Hypothyroidism means the thyroid gland is underactive and fails to secrete enough hormones into the bloodstream. This causes the person’s metabolism to slow down.