Dear David: I'm willing to bet it is an airborne allergy, probably dust, since it comes on when the furnace comes on. Not much you can do about dust but you can do something about the allergy.
Give your girl a 600 mg Bee Pollen tablet daily. Available at any health food store. I had a labrador who went to the Rainbow Bridge at the age of 13. When he was a young dog, he suffered terribly scratching until he was raw and bleeding. I went the conventional route with cortisone shots twice yearly until someone put me onto Bee Pollen. Once he was on the Bee Pollen, he never had another hot spot and never had another shot of the dreaded cortisone. Good Luck. Jean Kingston Waawaaskone Reg'd. Cavaliers A Fancy For Glass http://www.cartogra.com/rs/67CF4CD0-65F5-11D6-B42B-0090277A760E ----- Original Message ----- From: "David A. Draus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 11:16 AM Subject: [CKCS-L] > I am writing to anyone who could help. I am sure there are a lot of you out there who can do that. > > We have two cavaliers and one English setter. We've had problems with the English Setter since she was two years old. She is now six. We took her to an allergist who tested her and gave us serum to inject every two weeks and then give her allergy oral medication every day (which made her sleep, sleep, sleep). We were spending a lot of money for the serum and meds and couldn't see any improvement in her for over three years. > > No one can figure out what she is allergic to except that when our heat goes on in the house she scratches until she bleeds. When the heat goes off (our just barely runs), she immediately stops scratching and is perfect. The vet thought it might be something outside, but we know it's not. It's the heat factor in the house, and we live in Minneapolis, so the heat is on about 7-8 months a year. > > My question is====can anyone help? We have taken her off of all injections (they weren't helping anyhow and were very expensive) and taken her off of oral meds (she wasn't even a dog anymore--just slept all day). What can we do other than move out of state (can't do that for our one dog). > > I will be very grateful for any advice on the subject. And thank you. > > Gayle D at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?bodyto start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author. > ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
