Ted's Borax & Peroxide Mange Treatment for Dogs

I HAVE BATHED MY PICKPOO FOUR TIMES IN HYDROGEN PEROXIDE 2 PARTS WATER AND I PART PEROXIDE WITH BORAX TO SAT. POINT. MY DOG HAS STOPPED SCRATCHING AND SOME OF HIS HAIR IS FALLING OFF AT INFESTION POINTS .DOES THIS SEEM NATURAL AND DOES THIS MEAN THAT HE IS BEING RID OF THE INFECTION? I AM ALSO PUTTING 1/2 TEASPOON OF BORAX PER LITER OF WATER. HOW LONG SHOULD I KEEP UP THIS TREATMENT. SHOULD I RUB HIM DOWN WITH CASTER OIL WHEN HE IS DRY? FRANK

For about a month:

1. I used the Borax, peroxide & water, per Ted's directions, to fix the worst part of mange, spritzing my thick-furred keeshond-collie mix every three days.
2. I also gave him a weekly bath using Neem animal shampoo. Immediate normal skin coloring returned.
3. I fed him a daily dish of yogurt mixed with a spoonful of immune-fixing Spirulina. He was very sick before, inundated by the mange and not eating much. Within two days of Spirulina he left his favorite spot and joined us at activities.
4. I also spread a powdery mix of borax & diatamaceous earth all over the house for about a month, rather appreciating the spread being blown around by the ducts and ignoring the messy house look. This dried up all flea activity. And Finally...the healing:
5. Last week, I bought another spritz bottle, some non-scented hypo-allergenic baby oil (a cheap kind) and a blue bottle of Lysterine, original. Mix 1/3 water, 1/3 baby oil, 1/3 lysterine. The lysterine will not hurt, even the sores. It soothes and disinfects! I rubbed it in real good, giving a massage over the many many scales & little bumps and sores. My Rusty stretched into the pretend-scratching of his itches, loving it! It was nearly 5 hours before he scratched himself and bit into himself, so I gave him another spritz, rubbing it in.

Now I only spritz him with the baby oil mix every few days, when he 'points' to it. Then he frolicks all over, too energetic for the cat, so I let him out and he rolls in the snow to remove the smell, tossing snow into the air with his nose, wagging away. His horrible self-mangling has stopped. The bumps are nearly all gone. He rests & sleeps comfortably. He's much happier and so are the non-furred members of this group!!

I have been reading your solutions for mange and not one of these solutions says how to control and help with mange around the eyes. I know you shouldn't use any of the solutions this close to the eye. My dog has been suffering from mange for a long time, it has never completely went away and her eyes stay bald and slightly swollen. Do you have any suggestions on this?

I used Ted's treatment. One bottle of Hydrogen peroxide mixed with two bottles of water and added Borax until it would not longer dissolve.

I washed my dog in this and let it dry naturally. The next morning I rubbed all affected areas with Castor Oil. I did this about every 3 or 4 days for two weeks. (4 washes)

My dog was fully cleared and healing. He now is completely restored and shows no signs of Mange.

There was zero ill effects. Amazing!

Ted I want to THANK YOU for your Borax and Hydrogen cure for mites. My dog Sam got the mites at the vets office after getting neutered.It was about two to three weeks after coming home that we noticed his intense itching and biting. Looked up symptoms on the internet and came across your site. What a blessing.It took just about two months to cure.My dog looked like a bleached blond with a bad perm. At times I didn't think he would ever get rid of those pests. One thing with Sam was after the Borax and Hydrogen bath. Leaving it on to dry. He would get the trembles each time we applied it. They lasted several hours. We also had to make him wear a cone around his neck so that he wouldn't lick it all off.If you have a licker get yourself a cone so that the solution can dry. Got the cone at Pet Smart.One thing we did was reinforce the cone with duct tape. This made it last longer. Also started giving him vitamins that I got at Walmart. Plus Brewer's Yeast with garlic also by(Pro-Pet). He is healthy and shinny and happy now.Don't give up keep treating. Also I am still putting Borax in his water. Ted can you continue to use Borax in water? All the time or should you stop at some point. My suggestion if you have a longed haired dog would be to shave all his hair off because the solution causes the hair to get burnt just like a bad perm. Hang in there it works!

If a dog is losing hair and there is a smell is that an indication of mange? My dad's scottie really smells and is losing hair. Also, he is very oily. Have to give him a bath every week just to combat the oil and the smell.

My dog, Lucy, has had mange for a couple of months. I didn't know it was mange till just about a week ago. I was going to bring her to the vet on Monday but I happened to stumble upon Ted's cure. I immediatly went and got the ingredients and followed the instuctions last night. Just over night I saw improvements. She's not scratching like mad and she is acting so happy...like it doesn't bother her so much. i'll keep applying every week and keep posted on her progress. Is there anything that I can rub on her to help her itching...like cooking oil? I want to help her as much as possible, but I dont want to mess with the borax solution on her.

Does the borax and peroxide also work on cats? If not, what can one use to treat cats with bird mites?

i have 4 springers, i just treated one, so far, did the first tx per suggestions for mange. this smaller springer loves to run down fox holes, and torment coyotes. I ususlly have to vet treat all 4 twice a year for mange. Mange is wild here. thought i would try this home remedy dogs Nell tolerated the tx during anyway, then she bolted outside and started rubbing herself in the snow. the poor thing was in a crying frenzy. i will monitor her tonight and take her in if needed. yes all my dogs are neutered.i used 3 heaping tabelspoons of borax, 500cc of h2o2. 1 liter of water. washed dog with baby shampoo first , then applied all over, but the eyes forward , thanks anyway, nixon

After reading all of the positive responses pertaining to a borax/hydrogen peroxide solution for demodectic mange in dogs i had to find out what borax actually was. Ck for yourself, turns out it is really nothing more than a type of salt that forms naturally out in the west, texas or someplace. It is used in cooking and other things. Since mites along with roaches and many other insects have an exoskeleton what i believe the borax/salt does is dry them up to the point of death. kind of like a human dying of dehydration with an endoskeleton, just backwards, from the outside in instead of the inside out. So assuming that i understand all of these things correctly i would think that if you lived near the salt water and you took your dog swimming everyday and didn't rinse him off you could get rid of the mange. Ive heard people say this before.Theoretical of course. When people say that it made their dogs condition worse the only thing that makes sense is that the salt must have dried out the skin, causing severe itching, that makes sense also. To my knowledge hydrogen perxide can't really hurt you. I gargle with it when i have a cold. Dandruff shampoo w/ sulfer makes sense to. Head and shoulders extreme, and why not just leave the shampoo on the dog. Can't be that bad or the FDA wouldn't let humans use it and definetely not as harsh as the 70% sulfer solutions sold at feed stores.I currently believe that my three Boston Terriers have contracted mange and this is the route I'm going. Tried the acne cream with 10% benzoyl peroxide and it seems to be helping as a spot treatment in only 2 days. Some sites say demodectic mange is not contageous but i don't believe it, just not contageous to humans. I'll keep everyone posted on my results.

My lab/chow mix, who is just over a year, has had a horrible skin condition. Every vet has passed it off as allergies and nothing else. Well when the sores started to get worse and he cried constantly, I knew it was something else. I started researching and found the Peroxide/Borax mixture. I just free handed the measurement but within a few hours I noticed he wasn't waking up every few minutes to chew and scratch. I can tell he is happier too, which makes me just as happy. This website is absolutely fantastic and I am so glad I found it. Thanks to everyone who has posted or left feedback, it is amazing how helpful it all is! Thanks again!

BORAX AND HYDROGEN PEROXIDE (3%) BATH.I USED 2 TBL.SPN OF BORAX WASHING POWDERS AND 1/3 C.OF HYD.PEROXIDE AND 1/2 C.OF WATER.I WASHED HIM IN FRESH'N CLEAN (BAKING SODA AND OATMEAL SHAMPOO AND CONDITIONER.TOWEL DRIED HIM OFF.THEN APPLIED MIXTURE AND RUBBED IT IN REALLY WELL.I DID NOT DRY HIM IN ANY WAY AFTER ADDING THE MIXTURE.DID THIS ON NOV.24 AND ON NOV.25 I NOTICED HIS SKIN IS REALLY RED AND SEEMS TO HAVE PUS LOOKING STUFF ON HIS BACK AREA.IS THIS NORMAL?I RINSED IT WITH WARM WATER.I HAVE HEARD THAT HYD.PER.WILL CONTINUE TO EAT AT THE FLESH IS IT IS NOT RINSED REALLY WELL AFTER BEING APPLIED.IS THIS TRUE.ONE PERSON ON YOUR SITE SHOWED HER DOG ON DAY 1 LOOKING CLOSE TO DEEK'S(MY LAB)REACTION,BUT ON DAY 2 HER DOG LOOKED BETTER.SHOULD I EXPECT DAY 2 FOR DEEK TO IMPROVE.AND NOW THAT I RINSED THAT AREA NOW WHAT?THE MIXTURE HAD BEEN ON HIM FOR ABOUT 24 HOURS BEFORE I RINSED HIM WITH WATER.ANY ADVICE?

I am writing about Ted's Borax and Hydrogen Peroxide mange cure to treat demodectic mange in dogs. I hope I am posting this question in the correct place. I need to be certain I have the recipe and procedure right. The vet confirmed demodex with a scraping and performed one Mitaban dip. The dip was so toxic to our 3-month old, pug-chihuahua mix -- she didn't move from her bed for two days -- that I sought out alternatives and arrived at the Ted's cure site.

I have tried the treatment 4 times: two days in a row, skip a day, treat, skip a day, and treat. There has been some improvement in hair regrowth on her head -- new stubble has appeared! -- but her face and scalp are still scaly. Every day I read more posts and have adjusted my procedure, but before my husband insists on another Mitaban dip I would like to be certain I am performing the therapy correctly.

I mix 2 cups hydrogen peroxide with 4 cups water and add 2 handfuls of borax powder -- not measured precisely but about 1/4 cup ("20 Mule Team" brand). I am going to start waiting 15 minutes for the borax to fully dissolve -- something I just learned from reading a past post. I start pouring the solution on my puppy and begin to rub it into the skin -- like I was washing her if there were suds. Pour -- rub -- pour -- rub, for about 5 minutes. The first two treatments I was timid around her face, but now I really rub her closed eyes, inside the wrinkles, ears etc. I then give her a treat and stay with her in the shower for another 5 minutes. I just started rubbing a small amount of dry borax powder on her while she was still wet. I then let her out and keep her on a towel or in her crate until she is dry enough to play with the family. I am going to start doing the treatment every day instead of every-other-day. I haven't shampooed her with any another products -- just the borax wash. I am now giving her a high quality food and am going to research supplemental vitamins.

Am I doing everything correctly enough to tell my husband, "Have patience! This will work -- give it time."? I appreciate any response and greatly respect your commitment to this site.

My dog has been suffering(scratching and biting)for about 3 months now. I was not sure if it was a food allergy or a pest problem. Recently he began developing lesions. I did try the ivermectin, but with nothing positive to report. just alot of extra money spent. He is doing much better on the Ted's formula with much less scratching and a reduced redness. This is with one treatment. Thanks for the information.
Kia is much happier!

After doing everything I possibly could to help rid my 9 yr old sweetheart of a dog of his itch I came upon the remedy of peroxide, water and Borax. I used if only 3 times and have seen 100% improvement on Sebastian. I was finally of the impression it was not so much fleas as it was mites though the vet thinks over wise. In addition to the peroxide remedy I also put oils/bacon grease, (which was used on horses for wounds) olive oil etc. anything greasy on the scabs to help kill mites as well.

I want to share that I also did the Diamaceious earth treatment outside and the Borax on the carpets inside as well as washing his bedding every few days.

It is a complete treatment for the area and would recommend it for anyone plagued by these persistent and dreadful creatures that wreak havoc on our pet unable to help themselves.

I used popular flea killing products on another younger dog and consider it a waste of $50, time and can not justify the toxicity of such products. Do your homework people......natural is best for your beloved pets. Good luck. Marsha