Replied by Theresa
(Mpls., Mn) on 12/30/2015
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Hello Frank,
A few things come to mind when I read your post. First, Ted's Mange Remedy is a good first step in dealing with skin issues. If this were my dog I would make up the formula and treat following the directions exactly; keep in mind that repeated treatments will likely bleach your dog's coat and turn him red over time. You might do well with just one or two dips, and then follow up treating the lesions with a spritzer bottle of Ted's Anti-fungal/Anti-staph remedy [I will post that at the end]. Given the condition developed after water therapy I would make sure the solution sat wet on the dog for at least 20 minutes, allow the dog to shake dry, wait half and hour and then blow dry to ensure the coat is fully dried down to the skin.
What are you feeding your dog? Diet is tied to skin - a good diet increases the chances for trouble free skin, and a grain based diet increases the chances for allergy skin and more - so make sure you are feeding quality groceries, no grains or food dyes or sugars.
Often these staph infections /pyodermas are tied to allergies; consider boosting your dog's immune system with colostrum, quercetin and yucca - you can get these at the health food store. The yucca is often available in liquid form - 'yucca intensive' - and many find the addition of yucca, an anti-inflammatory - to be very helpful. Turmeric - the kind from the spice aisle - added to the chow may be helpful as well, as well as probiotics or acidophillus that you will find in the refrigerated section of the health food store.
You may find supplementing evening primrose oil, coconut oil or fish oil helpful for the dry skin.
Lastly, I find it helpful to alkalize my dogs drinking water when they get the itchies. 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda added to 1 liter of drinking water for a couple of days will also reduce the yeast infection; if the yeast infection issue is due to a fungus, 1/16 teaspoon of borax added along with the baking soda in one liter of water can also take care of it.
Ted's Anti-fungal/Anti-staph solution
Ingredients:
- 1 - 16 oz bottle of 3% hydrogen peroxide
- 1 bottle Milk of Magnesia
- 1 box Epsom salts
- 1 box Borax
- Filtered or distilled water
Method:
Dilute the 16 oz brown bottle of 3% hydrogen peroxide to a 1% solution by dumping the bottle into a jug and adding 32 oz of filtered or distilled water; I just fill up the empty brown bottle with water and dump it in the jug twice. Now you have 48 ounces of a 1% solution of hydrogen peroxide.
Add 4 table spoons EACH:
Borax, Epsom salts, and Milk of Magnesia.
Shake the dickens out of the solution. I usually run a tub full of hot water and set the jug in the tub, and then when the tub cools where I can bathe my dog the solution is by then an agreeable temperature for the dog. Bathe the dog in doggy shampoo or what have you, get all the crusty lesions gently scrubbed up and loose skin and scabs off and rinse well. Now drain the tub and when empty plug it up again and now pour the jug of prepared solution over the dog. I use a plastic cup to scoop up the solution and keep pouring over the dog. I try to keep this up for 10 minutes. If you have multiple dogs with skin issues you may be able to do two at a time depending on the size of your dogs. After 10 minutes I pull the plug and let the dog drip a bit in the tub, and then I take the wet dog with bare hands and put her in a crate with no bedding. Do not towel the dog off - you want as much of the solution to stay on the dog as possible, so it can 'work'. I allow the dog to drip dry in the crate with no bedding. It helps to have the house heat ON, and a nice tasty bone or high value chewy in the crate to distract the dog for a bit. After half an hour I let the dog out and towel dry as best I can and then let them work themselves dry by running all about the house. You do NOT rinse the solution off - you let it dry completely and that is it, until the next bath.
If you have a tiny dog, if you do not wish to make up such a large quantity of solution, the single batch is as follows:
- 1-1/2 cups of 1% hydrogen peroxide
- 1 tbsp MOM
- 1 tbsp Epsom salts
- 1 tbsp Borax
You may be able to put this into a spritzer bottle and spritz problem areas on your dog, but I find it best to tackle the entire dog with a full body treatment first, before using the spritz bottle for a spot treatment approach.
Replied by Eartha Kitty (Honolulu, Hi) on 01/29/2017
Why the MOM? What does it do to the staph infection? Thanks in advance.
EC: MOM = Milk of Magnesia
