[nagdu] ear issues

[minh ha]

It sounds like a food change is in order. If he's having a constant
ear infection, then I definitely think he's allergic to something in
his food. Giving him stronger antibiotics is going to help for a
little while, but it's not really addressing the heart of the problem.
Try switching him to a grain free limited diet food and see if his ear
infections go away or at least decrease in severity. Viva used to get
ear infections quite frequently, and still does to a point, but I
switched her over to a grain free food with limited ingredients and
she's doing a lot better. I hope you figure out what's going on with
his ears; it's not fun at all when they have helicopter ear syndrome.

Minh

On 12/27/14, Greg Aikens via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Per my vet's advice, I changed my dog's diet to something  fish based. His
> ear issues have cleared up since then. His skin has cleared up some but
> we're still working on that one.
>
>> On Dec 27, 2014, at 7:24 PM, Danielle Sykora via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For the first few months I had my dog, his ears were perfectly clean
>> all the time. About a month ago, one of his ears developed a pretty
>> severe infection. I took him to the vet and got an ear cleaner and
>> topical antibiotic to apply for one week. The infection seemed to
>> clear up after the week long course of antibiotic so I stopped
>> cleaning his ear. ever since then, his ear seems to get infected or at
>> least pretty dirty if I don't clean it on a daily basis. His other ear
>> is completely fine and I have only ever cleaned it once. Have any of
>> you experienced this with your dogs? Any suggestions as to how to
>> prevent this from happening?
>>
>> Danielle and Thai, who is tired of having an itchy ear
>>
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