Ben Curtis
Well-Known Member
I've attached some pictures, and I'm hoping someone out there might have had some luck dealing with an issue like this that can help.
Enzo not long after we got him started getting bumps on his chin. Our breeder suggested they were puppy acne. They continued to get worse, and our vet said it was defiantly not acne. He went on steroids and antibiotics, and it cleared up very fast, but not completely.
As the bumps started coming back we changed to ceramic bowls and eliminated any of his toys that were plastic that could be contacting his chin.
The bumps slowly kept coming back.
We tried changing foods to ones with out chicken, fish based, and so on, but nothing seemed to help or make it worse.
It got bad enough that we put him back on antibiotics but tried it this time with out steroids. Once again his face cleared up with no other change, just slower than it did on steroids. Our vet and us both agreed that if he had a food allergy the antibiotics would not have cleared it up. We stayed on a double course of the antibiotics, but about 1/2 way through the second course, it stopped getting better, and once we stopped it started coming back again.
His paws have always been a bit swollen in between the fingers, but they are inflamed now. Not sure if this is all related.
It feels like our vet is throwing darts at what this could be. We had her contact a pet dermatologist, and now we are set to try a mite medication (because these could cause some of the symptoms, and it's easily treated just in case), antibiotics again, and they would like to go to a food elimination process. The vet will do a skin scraping before we take him of the antibiotics.
My problem with all of this is if he gets better, then we have no idea why, because we are treating with 3 different types of medications.
Our plan is to hold off on the food, because I still feel like it should be eliminated, and I think our vet has just forgotten the conversation. Am I loosing my mind here?
I'd like to add that besides how it looks, Enzo is not effected by all of this, and is himself.
My guess is that his skin is irritated by putting his face in the food to eat. We now have a much wider bowl where the food is more spread out in hopes of helping. I can't think of any way to eat with out his face in it, besides feeding him one morsel at a time. I welcome any ideas.
We've also tried cleaning his face after eating and drinking, apple cider vinegar to clean, tripple anitibotic, Epson salt baths for his paws, and more i'm sure I have forgotten.
Any ideas, recommendations, anything would be appreciated at this point.
Thanks,
Ben
Enzo not long after we got him started getting bumps on his chin. Our breeder suggested they were puppy acne. They continued to get worse, and our vet said it was defiantly not acne. He went on steroids and antibiotics, and it cleared up very fast, but not completely.
As the bumps started coming back we changed to ceramic bowls and eliminated any of his toys that were plastic that could be contacting his chin.
The bumps slowly kept coming back.
We tried changing foods to ones with out chicken, fish based, and so on, but nothing seemed to help or make it worse.
It got bad enough that we put him back on antibiotics but tried it this time with out steroids. Once again his face cleared up with no other change, just slower than it did on steroids. Our vet and us both agreed that if he had a food allergy the antibiotics would not have cleared it up. We stayed on a double course of the antibiotics, but about 1/2 way through the second course, it stopped getting better, and once we stopped it started coming back again.
His paws have always been a bit swollen in between the fingers, but they are inflamed now. Not sure if this is all related.
It feels like our vet is throwing darts at what this could be. We had her contact a pet dermatologist, and now we are set to try a mite medication (because these could cause some of the symptoms, and it's easily treated just in case), antibiotics again, and they would like to go to a food elimination process. The vet will do a skin scraping before we take him of the antibiotics.
My problem with all of this is if he gets better, then we have no idea why, because we are treating with 3 different types of medications.
Our plan is to hold off on the food, because I still feel like it should be eliminated, and I think our vet has just forgotten the conversation. Am I loosing my mind here?
I'd like to add that besides how it looks, Enzo is not effected by all of this, and is himself.
My guess is that his skin is irritated by putting his face in the food to eat. We now have a much wider bowl where the food is more spread out in hopes of helping. I can't think of any way to eat with out his face in it, besides feeding him one morsel at a time. I welcome any ideas.
We've also tried cleaning his face after eating and drinking, apple cider vinegar to clean, tripple anitibotic, Epson salt baths for his paws, and more i'm sure I have forgotten.
Any ideas, recommendations, anything would be appreciated at this point.
Thanks,
Ben