[nagdu] Ear infection

Thu Oct 3 17:17:23 UTC 2013

Hi,
I have a golden who is prone to chronic ear infections, so I clean out
his ears once a week with the epi-otic solution, that Minh mentioned.
I just clean his ears out with Kleenex, or I flush them by squirting
solution in, allowing him to shake it out, then wiping the excess
solution out of his ears.
I say the cleaning schedule just depends on the dog. Some dogs never
get ear infections and never need their ears cleaned. Others need
their ears cleaned once a month to once a week. After a dog gets an
ear infection though, they are more likely to start getting them. One
of the vet techs at my vet recommended that I clean the golden guy's
ears out, not once a week, but only when I saw dirt in there. I told
her that she was nuts and I just could not do that with all the
chronic ear infections that he had this summer.
The vinegar solution helps to get rid of ear infections. One of my
girlfriends who has a lab guide tried it out, and I think the
infection was gone after ten days.
It's better to use this on repeat infections so that the dog does not
build an immunity to certain antibiotics.

On 10/3/13, minh ha <minh.ha927 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I actually clean my dog's ears once a week with virbac epi-otic
> solution recommended by GDB. I thought this was really excessive at
> first so I stopped doing it a month into getting home and bam, Viva
> got an ear infection. Back to once a week I go. I like my ears to be
> clean so I imagine they do too. I've also heard of a new treatment
> that vets are giving the dogs for ear infections; instead of applying
> ear drops twice a day, the vet just fixes up a solution and it's kind
> of waxy and puts it in the dog's ear. When the ear infection is gone,
> the wax will fall out on its own. Viva hasn't actually needed another
> treatment, but her puppy raiser suggested I look into it if she gets
> another one as it's a lot more convenient than putting eardrops.
>
> Minh
>
> On 10/3/13, Star Gazer <pickrellrebecca at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, 2 parts water, 1 part vinegar. It works on humans too.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Darla Rogers
>> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 9:43 AM
>> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Ear infection
>>
>> 	That is exactly what my vet said to do; he caught the beginnings of
>> an ear infection when I took Mr. Finn aka Huck into the vet for a stool
>> sample, so I had to use it twice a day for 10 days and now just once a
>> week.
>> 	I hear a mixture of 2 to 1 vinegar and water also works well.
>> Darla & Huck Finn
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jewel
>> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 8:19 AM
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Ear infection
>>
>> Faye is eating Taste of the Wild Pacific Stream, which is a high protein,
>> low filler food. I will make sure to vacuum more often during this
>> season,
>> and maybe that will help. She has eardrops for twice a day, and that
>> seems
>> to be making her feel better. The vet also gave me some solution to clean
>> out her ears once a week until this clears up, then once a month. Does
>> that
>> sound about right?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Oct 3, 2013, at 9:02 AM, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Jewel.
>>> Sorry Faye has an ear infection.  It's not a comfortable thing.
>>> If my dog had an ear infection, I'd look first at his food.  It's my
>> opinion that a frequent cause of ear infections is an allergy to wheat or
>> corn. What food is Faye eating?
>>> If it's not food, I'm not sure what you can do to prevent recurrences.
>> Vacuum frequently?
>>> Fall and spring can both be big allergy times.
>>> Tracy
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jewel" <herekittykat2 at gmail.com>
>>> To: "the National Association of Guide Dog Users NAGDU Mailing List"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 1:44 AM
>>> Subject: [nagdu] Ear infection
>>>
>>>
>>>> Faye has been scratching at her ear and quite agitated by it the last
>>>> few
>> days, so I took her to the vet today. She said it is an ear infection,
>> and
>> that Faye was the fifth dog just today that came in with an ear
>> infection.
>> She also said it is probably allergies. Is this common this time of year?
>> What, if anything, can I do to prevent future infections?
>>>> -Jewel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> reply://herekittykat2@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>>
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