Hi All.
My little boy, Bozo, has just been diagnosed with generalised Demodex.
He is an Australian Bulldog who is 16 weeks old and has been through a hard run in his short life!
He caught Parvo a few weeks ago and recovered extremely fast, the vet wasnt too positive about his condition (not our normal vet) and caused us undue torment. Anyway he was out of hospital in 3 days!!!
He was back to his normal self and had just finished his 5 day course of antibiotics, when I noticed slight hair loss, which looked like insect bites. So I wasnt too concerned, I started moisturising his patches with a mix of Sorbaline base with Lavender oil, tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil. This stopped any itching.
I stopped this after 2 days and the patches started again...I took him to our regular vet and she did skin scrapings and confirmed it was Demodex generalised form...We were so disheartened as Bozo was going to be our stud dog...Anyway I expressed my concerns to the vet about breeding him, and she asked all sorts of questions about his parentage, and health etc.
After she had discussed the case with interstate vets, we got some really good news!!! We can still breed with Bozo, as his Demodex is due to having a low immune system, due to the Parvo...So long as it has healed and skin scraping come back negative by the time he is 9 months old!
She also told me that my use of the cream helped him alot, so you can imagine how I felt, really pleased with myself!
He is being treated with fortnightly doses of Advocate, 10 day course of Antibiotics and medicated baths! He has been on treatment for 5 days now and his face has cleared up immensley!!! And the areas on his body have gone down aswell...So it looks really positive for him, which is so good!!!
His diet consists of Supercoat Puppy dry and Pal Puppy (for the moisture content) also some chicken mince! The only natural supplement is the sorbaline and oils which are applied twice daily.
He is such a beautiful little fellow...The picture added was before the demodex.
All the best!
