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sophie098567
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Bella's 11 months old, and when we first got her at 5 months, her skin was perfect. Her neck beautifully white and the wrinkles in her face were fine. She did have a bit of soreness under her nose but quickly got better after a few weeks of daily bathing. However we noticed that under her neck quickly got sore and really red, it also seemed to irritate her and she was itching it a lot. At first we thought it was from where she was drinking, and then the water was irritating her skin because it wasn't being dried off immediately, however her wrinkles were quite bad aswell. When we took her for a vet check up they gave us some cream for her wrinkles and some malaseb shampoo for under her neck. It turned out that the shampoo made everything better for about a day and then it just got really bad again within 24 hours. The cream didn't really seem to do much either. The soreness has gone from being a pinky red to just brown gunky horrible stuff and she's starting to wipe her face on cupboards and doors and everything because it's irritating her so much! Her neck has lost a lot of hair aswell. I've done a lot of research and read a lot of posts on this site and reckon she might have a yeast infection. She's also just started in the past few days licking her paws which I also believe is another sign of a yeast infection. I didn't realise how sensitive bullies are to food and how common allergies are with simple things such as type of protein, grain etc. When we first bought her she was on royal canine food, but she didn't seem to like it much. Not realising the damage it could cause I repeatidly changed her food every few weeks to see what she liked, and as well as this, she managed to get hold of some Wagg food, which my other dog, a staffy, eats. I've read what it contains and it appears to have a lot of grains in it and stuff that generally doesn't seem too good for bullies with sensitive bodies! I'm pretty sure it's a yeast infection so since yesterday I've been putting Canesten cream on her neck and wrinkles after cleaning with salt water. I haven't seen any improvement yet and was wondering how long it could take, or if this doesn't work, what could help?