My 6 year old bull terrier bitch suffers very badly with folliculitis.... we have tried many things, remedies but nothing seems to be working... a breeder has suggested a hefty dose of marbocyl..... my vet is very untrustworthy and is not at all understanding... is there anyway that i could get a prescription without revisiting my vet
Veteran Advisor Helen Fines says:
December 19th, 2007 at 09:48 PM
Hi, sorry to hear about your problems with Akira. These problems invariably need long courses of antibiotics so you do need to see a vet for the correct prescription. If you aren't happy with the vet you see could you ask to see another or go to another clinic?
Lara says:
December 19th, 2007 at 09:58 PM
Thank you for your answer, i am unhappy with my vet but i live on a spanish island and the vets here dont really know of or understand akira´s problems they all seem to have the same answer life long steroids and a special dog biscuit (that is so expensive)
To help you understand more here is the full story: When I brought Akira as a puppy she was a healthy little nutter (as all bully pups are!) In her first year we were backwards and forwards to te vet with anal gland problems and ear infections..........
My vet said that she had an underlying allergy to something which he couldnt detect, he wanted to put my puppy on steroids for the rest of her life!!!! with this prescription, I went away and researched allergies and home remedies. Straight away I changed my vets and her diet...... originally (as she was my first bully) she was fed on commercial canned dogfood and biscuits. I instantly changed her diet to tripe, mince, chicken necks, fish, rice, pasta, garlic, oliveoil etc etc. I now know the allergy is to dog food especially the biscuits with colouring like frolic, bakers complete, pedigree etc etc. She has lived five happy years with no flairups......... until now! Just over a year ago now I moved from england to Mallorca (spain) where there is very little choice of dog food and tripe is almost non existent!
After a long search I have settled feeding all my bullies on a plain biscuit (with no added colouring) tinned fish in oil, pasta and rice. In the last 4 months my bully bitch has suffered severely with cysts between her toes and pads. They arent painful but they swell up, the hair falls out... then they rupture... out comes clear yellowish puss like fluid and blood, then for days after they stay open like a puncture wound. They heal after a couple of weeks, then they appear somewhere else.......she has now had them appear on her genitalia, under the tail, on her nose and on her stifle joint as well as all over her feet.
I have a really good (but very expensive) english vet here and he has looked at them very puzzled and again first prescribed antibiotics which didnt work.... then he took a scraping for demedex ( negative) I tried daily soaking in hibiscrub but for a dog that is petrified of water this is almost impossible, then he suggested hills special food ( didnt work) now he has also suggested steroids.......
Im sorry but i dont want to purge my lovely dog with this for the rest of her life, and lose her to kidney failure! So again back to the drawing board...... having read up lots about pyodermas and folliculitis in canines on the web i understand that it is caused by many things but mainly allergies and yeast.
I have tried and tested many things and have finally found something which seems to be helping to control them: She has 1/2 a Piriton ( childrens doseage) daily, and i rub a mixture of e45, teatree oil and canesten thrush cream into the bad areas and between her toes and pads to control the bacteria and flairups........... It has been hard but im seeming to be getting somewhere with it she now has only 2 pyodermas at present compaired to about 9 in one go!!!!
In the last couple of days the cysts have started to reoccur and attack her badly her feet are swollen but again they dont seem to bother her... a breeder friend of mine knows this condition in bull terriers well and said to me that the only thing that works is marbocyl.....
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