Dog with dry flaky skin.

Octopus

Over the last month or so my lab/springer x has had very dry flaky skin (like dandruff). I brought her to the vet a month ago and he said it was probably some kind of mite and gave me a pack of flea/tick/mite treatment oil. I have applied this as directed, cleaned out the kennel and run and changed all the bedding but the skin is still dry and flaky.
She doesn't seem to worried and isn't scratching or rolling around.

Anyone have any remedy's for dry skin or coat.

deeksofdoom

Could it be too much protein in its diet?

Tackleberry.

have you changed the dogs food, even if it was a good while back, could be the food, and high protein food can be the problem in bad cases it causes boils on the skin.

Tackleberry.

deeksofdoom wrote: »

Could it be too much protein in its diet?

just piped me at the post

Jamie Starr

I don't want to alarm you, but it might be an idea to have your dog checked for cancer. It's probably not the case, but my aunt's dog was affected by dry skin for a very long time, despite being one of the best fed, well-groomed dogs I had ever seen. They tried everything to treat her, gave her every subsequent medicine the vet ordered, until a cancer was finally detected. By this time she was in so much pain there was no other option but to put her down.

I sincerely hope your dog has nothing really wrong with her, and that it is only a skin problem easily sorted through meds, but it was such a frustrating ordeal for my aunt to put the dog through all these treatments, totally unaware what the real difficulty was, that I think at least asking the vet to check for anything cancerous might be a good idea- definitely if the problem persists.

Best of luck!

Ronnie Beck

deeksofdoom wrote: »

Could it be too much protein in its diet?

This is a myth DOD. It's more likely to be a result of not enough protein.


It could be something to do with her food though. She more likely has an allergy to one of the ingredients or protein sources in her food rather than protein content. I would give her a tablespoon of cod liver oil with her dinner for a start and then look at a changing her diet. Could be many other causes: central heating if she's inside, dirty dusty kennels will promote mites, wrong shampoo etc.

Invincible

My brother's dog had a fierce itch,like dermatitis,vet gave him medication to no avail. He changed him on to Burns Hypo-allergenic dog food, he improved within a few days,never looked back since.

gunisfun

cod liver oil worked for my two labs they had what your dog has add a bit to his/her food for a week or two and she should be fine but is not do as invincible's brother did

Octopus

Thanks for all the replies, much appreciated.

I feed the dog a mix of brown bread, dry food and mince. I had changed the dry food during the summer to a lower protein food but had not changed it back when the hunting season came around. I changed her dry food back to what I had her on previously about a month ago also, red mills worker, which she never had a problem with .

I will start her on the cod liver oil from today to see how that goes.

Once again thanks.

sonofthegun

gunisfun wrote: »

cod liver oil worked for my two labs they had what your dog has add a bit to his/her food for a week or two and she should be fine but is not do as invincible's brother did

+1 on the oil always give the setter a can of tuna in sunflower oil with his dry food once or twice a week oil helps to protect the skin and keep a good shine on the coat .he used get a bit of dry skin but not anymore
stog

Octopus

sonofthegun wrote: »

+1 on the oil always give the setter a can of tuna in sunflower oil with his dry food once or twice a week oil helps to protect the skin and keep a good shine on the coat .he used get a bit of dry skin but not anymore
stog

Good tip SOTG

Octopus

Thanks again for all the tips. Looks to be doing the job, her coat feels much better.
I'll finish off the tub of cod liver oil tablets and add in the tin of tuna once a week.
Oddly enough i thought i'd have trouble feeding her the cod liver tablets but she love's them :eek:. I just take one out of the tub after walking and she takes the hand off me for it.