It sounds very much like Demodectic Mange. It is caused by a mite that is on all dogs but due to immune deficiency some dogs can not keep under control. It is common to see a bit in young dogs whose immune systems are still maturing but whose maternal antibodies have fallen off. It is also know as the Red Mange. Severely impaired dogs may show it at 6-8 weeks and some do not recover.
It is very interesting if it is Demodex and CS controls it. Although it can be difficult to isolate by skin scraping, because it burrows deep into the skin and subdermis, this is one way to confirm. The other is by physical exam and medical history, which is how most astute vets will diagnose it. The not so astute resort to steroids. There are dips for it but they are very liver toxic, be very careful if you decide to go this route. Ivermectin also kills the mite and is used off label by some vets for the difficult cases orally and topically. Do not do this without knowing how much is too much as ten times the therapeutic dose, or in collie breeds even less, will cross the Blood Brain Barrier and kill the dog. The "other" mange mite is Sarcoptic Mite and is easier to kill, it is generally a different pattern though and a bit easier to detect on skin scraping but both can easily be missed. Mites are not insects but Arthropods and harder to kill than insects. Old remedies included smothering them by coating the dog with old motor oil. <yikes> But if the dog survived sometimes it worked. The features of Demodex are the hairlessness around the eyes and the red rash on her belly and legs. It is usually more symmetrical and Sarcoptic is more on the body, generally, asymmetrical. If you do decide to get a skin scraping to confirm this and CS continues to control it please post this to the list under a subject heading of Mange so it is easily searchable. Steroids are not at all useful and in fact will suppress her immunity even further. How old is she? Does she have any reason to be immune suppressed? Is she inbred? Stressed or have other physical or environmental immune suppressors? I have seen this in a whole litter of inbred puppies starting with the hair loss around the eyes are 6 weeks of age. If I can be of further help please feel free to email me privately if you wish. Good Luck! Garnet On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 02:05, Marie Hofman wrote: > My dog gets this funny thing ...nobody knows what it is, but when it > happens I usually take her to the vet and $70 later (after giving her > steroids) she would come right. Now I have a CS generator and make my > own, I have dowsed her with it. What happens is ... she goes bald > around her eyes, making her look quite strange and all the hair > around her eyes drops out, then she gets a real bad rash under her > legs and on her tummy. She goes through hell scratching etc and cant > bear it, an allergy of somesort I guess. However, since dowsing > with CS a couple of times a week she is looking well ... shining and > beautiful, no rash no baldness around the eyes, also I put it in her > drinking water. What a saving. what a relief for her. > > Thanks for the silver (and for the List) > > Marie. > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Watch movie trailers and listen to music online with the Xtra > Broadband Channel ! -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for > discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted > at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: > [email protected] Silver List archive: > http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic > messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: > http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List > maintainer: Mike Devour -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
