alohadaisy
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I am almost at wits end with my new bully. She's chewing her legs and scratching her face.
I rescued her about 3 weeks ago so I have no history on her. I found her dumped on my road in the dark starving and covered in black scabs with a terrible eye infection. She smelled horrendous. I brought her home and washed her. Many of the scabs washed off as sticky clumps, leaving large bare patches of pink skin. I took her to the vet the next day to be scanned for a chip and to address her issues.
The vet said no mange or parasites, prescribed antibiotics for skin, eye and respiratory infections and said her skin issues were likely allergy related and said to get a novel protein food and it should clear up her yeasty ears and prevent the black scabs on her body.
I couldn't get any novelty food over the weekend and I started reading about allergies, yeast and skin issues with bulldogs. It seems like they can react to all kinds of things and decided to try raw. Chicken and pork did not seem to sit well with her - she would itch her sides bloody after eating. She didn't seem to react to beef. She's been eating raw hamburger for 2 weeks now.
Morning: 7 oz raw hamburger, 1 raw egg (no shell because they're shell treated eggs), 1 tsp Now brand Bone Meal, 1 tbs. Organic coconut oil, 1 tsp dried alfalfa, 1 tsp raw apple cider vinegar with mother, 1 tsp Now brand nutritional yeast (dead yeast), 1 tsp bentonite
Evening: Same as morning except switch egg for 1-2 tbs plain yogurt
Treats: homemade gelatin bites made with plain beef gelatin, hamburger, diced carrots and peas.
I do not have bones in her diet yet, hence the bonemeal - chicken is out and I don't have a source for safe sized beef bones. Weight bearing bones are at the store but I understand those are too hard for eating.
She is filling out well, her ribs aren't standing out any more and the skin and fur on her body looks good - nice white skin and her fur is quickly growing in on the bald spots. Her ears are not producing much blackish red goop any more, 1 ear is almost clear. Her smell is much improved but she's still mildly smelly. I can't isolate the source on her but it's a bit like off cheese which makes me believe I'm combating a yeast issue.
She was limping and I discovered a furuncle between her toes so I started soaking her paws in Epsom salts and rinsing with peroxide and cleared up the cyst.
I started adding a couple drops of oil of oregano to to her food 5 days ago as a additional yeast killer.
3 days ago I gave her raw whiting fish and hamburger for 2 meals (morning and evening). That same day the skin of her lower legs, paws, chin and muzzle have turned red and she's been itching her face and feet. I started giving her benadryl morning and night and soaking her paws in Epsom salts with some vinegar. I gave her no more of that fish and went back to only beef.
I stopped the oil of oregano yesterday as I was concerned this was caused by too much yeast die off. I washed her legs this morning - i did one side with selsun blue and the other with sulfodene to see if one worked better than the other. Looks like both were equal and she looks less red.
She went into heat about a week ago so I don't know if hormones could be exacerbating the situation.
So finally to my question: am I experiencing yeast die off, which I understand manifests these symptoms and should improve as long as i adhere to her no starch diet or did Daisy react to the fish? How long do we endure the redness and itching before changing things?
Thank you!
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I rescued her about 3 weeks ago so I have no history on her. I found her dumped on my road in the dark starving and covered in black scabs with a terrible eye infection. She smelled horrendous. I brought her home and washed her. Many of the scabs washed off as sticky clumps, leaving large bare patches of pink skin. I took her to the vet the next day to be scanned for a chip and to address her issues.
The vet said no mange or parasites, prescribed antibiotics for skin, eye and respiratory infections and said her skin issues were likely allergy related and said to get a novel protein food and it should clear up her yeasty ears and prevent the black scabs on her body.
I couldn't get any novelty food over the weekend and I started reading about allergies, yeast and skin issues with bulldogs. It seems like they can react to all kinds of things and decided to try raw. Chicken and pork did not seem to sit well with her - she would itch her sides bloody after eating. She didn't seem to react to beef. She's been eating raw hamburger for 2 weeks now.
Morning: 7 oz raw hamburger, 1 raw egg (no shell because they're shell treated eggs), 1 tsp Now brand Bone Meal, 1 tbs. Organic coconut oil, 1 tsp dried alfalfa, 1 tsp raw apple cider vinegar with mother, 1 tsp Now brand nutritional yeast (dead yeast), 1 tsp bentonite
Evening: Same as morning except switch egg for 1-2 tbs plain yogurt
Treats: homemade gelatin bites made with plain beef gelatin, hamburger, diced carrots and peas.
I do not have bones in her diet yet, hence the bonemeal - chicken is out and I don't have a source for safe sized beef bones. Weight bearing bones are at the store but I understand those are too hard for eating.
She is filling out well, her ribs aren't standing out any more and the skin and fur on her body looks good - nice white skin and her fur is quickly growing in on the bald spots. Her ears are not producing much blackish red goop any more, 1 ear is almost clear. Her smell is much improved but she's still mildly smelly. I can't isolate the source on her but it's a bit like off cheese which makes me believe I'm combating a yeast issue.
She was limping and I discovered a furuncle between her toes so I started soaking her paws in Epsom salts and rinsing with peroxide and cleared up the cyst.
I started adding a couple drops of oil of oregano to to her food 5 days ago as a additional yeast killer.
3 days ago I gave her raw whiting fish and hamburger for 2 meals (morning and evening). That same day the skin of her lower legs, paws, chin and muzzle have turned red and she's been itching her face and feet. I started giving her benadryl morning and night and soaking her paws in Epsom salts with some vinegar. I gave her no more of that fish and went back to only beef.
I stopped the oil of oregano yesterday as I was concerned this was caused by too much yeast die off. I washed her legs this morning - i did one side with selsun blue and the other with sulfodene to see if one worked better than the other. Looks like both were equal and she looks less red.
She went into heat about a week ago so I don't know if hormones could be exacerbating the situation.
So finally to my question: am I experiencing yeast die off, which I understand manifests these symptoms and should improve as long as i adhere to her no starch diet or did Daisy react to the fish? How long do we endure the redness and itching before changing things?
Thank you!
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But she forgives me quickly
