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My 2 year old Rhodesian Ridgeback has been suffering from an allergy to something in the garden. We thought it was Wandering Dew (which we found a bit of)...but now that we have gotten rid of it, he still has sores on him. The Vet keeps wanting to put him on Kortizone, and I don't want to do that anymore. Does anyone know of any creams etc that may help the sores heal? It doesn't help that he keeps licking them.

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My 2 year old Rhodesian Ridgeback has been suffering from an allergy to something in the garden.

What are the allergy symptoms?

My 3yr old ridgie was at the vet last week because she had little bumps come up (looked like bites) then some of them turned into little scabby patches that lost hair, while on her tummy and inner thighs she develped big pimple looking things and welts that looked like jelly fish stings! It was all rather ugly and worrisome, but the vet said it was common in dogs who moved from cooler climates to hotter ones (she came to QLD from Sydney) but that they had become infected and that she could possibly be allergic to the long grass at the park. He gave her a jab of antibiotics and then gave me some tablets to give her (anti-inflammatories perhaps).

They did clear up, but the pimples are returning, and now my other ridgie has some of the bite-looking bumps coming up, so I dont know whats going on!

Having never dealt with allergies before, I'm keen to find out about others' experiences with them and what does and doesn't work. I have no intention of going to the vets every other week and dosing her up with chemicals!

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Hi,

Symptoms my Ridgeback is experiencing is that he lost all hair on his underside. Initially he had open sores...and it hurt for him even to walk sometimes. His underarms were scabby with no hair. His inside ear flaps were scaley, and he had a slight scabbiness around his mouth where his whiskers come out of.

So the vet gave him antibiotics and cortizone. I don't like giving him cortizone though, it knocks him around a bit.

You can get a blood test to try to determine the alergy, but it cots about $400, and it is not conclusive.

The vet also said he could be allergic to grass! That would be bad.

He now only has the sores on his thigh area on both sides. He keeps them fresh by licking them. I don't know how to get him to stop short of putting a nappy on him! Band aids don't stick to his fur...and I can't very well cover his bits and pieces!

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I've found Malaseb wash followed up by Aloveen leave in conditioner to be a great help. Doesn't solve the problem but does give a lot of relief.

Seems like this season is particularily bad, for a lot of dogs. Guess it's like my hayfever some years are really bad and some years hardly any symptoms. :rofl:

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Hi Cactus. Your dog's symptoms sound exactly what I am going through at the moment with my dog. She started off with scracthes, that turned into sores, got pimple heads, lost hair, put her on antibiotics, they cleared up, took her off drugs and they came back again in three days. This has been going on now for three months.

I have just been to a dog dermatologist who has put her on a final course of antibiotics and then we will go down the path of food allergy diets and allergy vaccinations if necessary.

I sympathise with you totally. I suffer from allergies myself and I know how crazy it drives me having itchy spots! I would rather have them than my dog though.

I have found aloe vera gel helps a bit with my dog.

I will keep in touch and let you know how I go. Good luck. Tanya

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Symptoms my Ridgeback is experiencing is that he lost all hair on his underside.  Initially he had open sores...and it hurt for him even to walk sometimes.  His underarms were scabby with no hair.  His inside ear flaps were scaley, and he had a slight scabbiness around his mouth where his whiskers come out of.

wow biancalouise, that sounds a whole lot worse than my girl has!

I wonder whether there is something natural you can use to boost his resistance?

Has his diet/bath wash/bedding etc changed recently or are you certain that its something in the yard?

I used an elizabethan collar on Zara to stop her licking her welts- that eased them quite a bit as she was keeping them inflamed. She has some of the pimples coming back on her inner thighs, but so far she hasn't touched them. Now that i think of it, I think she may have got the welts on her underarms first.

Its a real mystery to me.

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Have also moved from cooler climate to hotter, and 2 in particular scratch.

I was given Malaseb and Neotopic-H (cream with antibiotic, anti-inflamm and local anaesthetic) from vet which eases it a bit.

A lot of DOLers swear by Aloveen Shampoo and leave on conditioner.

Then there is Veatdine, an iodine based wash for non specific skin conditions, you can either get it from internat, vetproductsdirect, or a saddlery shop such as Horselands. You dont have to wash this out.

Yes we also have wandering jew, but vet didnt seem to think that was the pblm

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She started off with scracthes, that turned into sores, got pimple heads, lost hair, put her on antibiotics, they cleared up, took her off drugs and they came back again in three days. This has been going on now for three months.

So she got a secondary infection as a result of scrathing at a rash?

I think thats what the vet said was happening with Zara. I wonder if I had not let her scratch if they would have cleared up quicker through not getting infected and being kept angry and inflamed. So I wonder in that case, as a temporary measure, if something to simply take the itch out might work in conjunction with the elizabethan collar?

I have just been to a dog dermatologist who has put her on a final course of antibiotics and then we will go down the path of food allergy diets and allergy vaccinations if necessary.

Yikes I couldn't afford allergy testing!

I have found aloe vera gel helps a bit with my dog.

I didn't try that, but will next time I see her bothered by them.

I will keep in touch and let you know how I go. Good luck.

Thanks Tanya! Seems like a few of us are in the same boat with this rash business.

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I was given Malaseb and Neotopic-H (cream with antibiotic, anti-inflamm and local anaesthetic) from vet which eases it a bit.

A lot of DOLers swear by Aloveen Shampoo and leave on conditioner.

I'll give these a go. Could I get them from my vet without having to pay for a consult do you think? I've paid over $1000 in vet bills these past three months, so I'm looking to avoid paying more than I have to!

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Hi Cactus,

We haven't changed anything around Hondo lately, only thing is that the weather is hot, so he sleeps in the dirt or under a tree a lot. We have checked for wandering dew under there but nothing. He sleeps on bare dirt.

My partner is going out today to buy an above ground outside dog bed and will put it in the shade on top of the dirt where he normally snoozes.

Natural remedies...I read that omega 3 is good for them. I work at Heinz, who produce Greenseas so thats no problem in giving him tuna most days.

We have an Elizabethan collar, but being a Ridgeback, he is very flexable, and can still just reach the sores with his toungue. They are just near his tail, but on his thigh muscle.

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Hmm... it seems my other girl Kiki has proved all my previous assumptions to be false :rofl:

She has never had allergies in the time I have had her- about 15 months, and has always lived in this area, and yet what did I just find under one of her little armpits??!! Welts! Grrr.

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I am not saying your dog has fleas but there could be fleas in the dirt that he is lying in.. & he could have a flea allergy.

Friends had a BC that had this & she was the cleanest dog out there but because she kept laying in dirt under a specific tree she kept getting a reaction to the fleas in the dirt.

I would if possible keep him confined from that area, treat it for fleas & him as well.

Wandering jew if not removed by digging under the root system can still be active in the ground as well.

Other possibilities has the area he is laying in been treated either with a fertiliser or weed killer?

Jacq

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Diesel also has a contact allergy. We have I think a native version of Wandering Jew in the yard, and so far it has been resistant to my attempts to eradicate it :laugh: His tummy and recently his tail is affected. This week Diesel is on cortisone, I am also washing with Aloveen shampoo and leave in conditioner. Luckily the cortisone doesn't seem to have knocked him around, although I know it can for some.

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