Hey guys,
My name is Kenny and I have a 3 and a half year old half labrador, half walker hound, and she's usually pretty low maintenance and healthy.
A while back, she got an ear infection (which I originally thought was Ear Mites)... so I got some ear mite medication for her, and it just didnt do the trick. She continued to shake her ears and scratch at them. Both ears had dark nasty wax in them, and smelled God awful.
So I took her to the vet, and they told me it wasnt the Ear Mites, but rather just a simple ear infection, and they gave me 2 things:
Malaseb® Flush (Medicated Formulation for Dogs, Cats, and Horses)
and
Baytril® Otic (enrofloxacin/silver sulfadiazine) Antibacterial-Antimycotic Emulsion
... so. I did what the vet said (Flush the ears with Malaseb once daily, followed by the medication (use medication twice daily) for 14 days.
Two weeks later my dogs ears were clean, and not smelling bad at all. She was also not messing with them at all and was doing just fine.
.........Months later, I still have a whole bottle of Malaseb and some of the antibacterial ear drops. And she's been messing with her ears again much in the same way as last time, only this time its just concentrated on one ear. Same wax, same nasty smell, same shaking of the head.
So I've been giving her this stuff again like I did last time and it seems to be getting better.... kind of. I just wanted to make sure that this stuff doesnt go bad. Its just ear drops, and ear flush.
A friend of mine asked if I had put some Hydrogen Peroxide in her ear and I said no because I didnt know if that was ok or not.
Please help me out, my poor little dog is miserable at the moment. Thanks in advance for any help.
**EDIT**
I also still have the bottle of ear mite medication.
This wont hurt her this combination of ear stuff will it? For instance if it's not a fungal infection and it is Ear Mites, and Im putting Malaseb flush in there to kill it.
Or if its a fungal infection, and Im putting Ear Mite medication in there?
Im kind of broke at the moment and cant afford a $100 vet trip just for him to tell me to keep doing what Im doing....
My name is Kenny and I have a 3 and a half year old half labrador, half walker hound, and she's usually pretty low maintenance and healthy.
A while back, she got an ear infection (which I originally thought was Ear Mites)... so I got some ear mite medication for her, and it just didnt do the trick. She continued to shake her ears and scratch at them. Both ears had dark nasty wax in them, and smelled God awful.
So I took her to the vet, and they told me it wasnt the Ear Mites, but rather just a simple ear infection, and they gave me 2 things:
Malaseb® Flush (Medicated Formulation for Dogs, Cats, and Horses)
and
Baytril® Otic (enrofloxacin/silver sulfadiazine) Antibacterial-Antimycotic Emulsion
... so. I did what the vet said (Flush the ears with Malaseb once daily, followed by the medication (use medication twice daily) for 14 days.
Two weeks later my dogs ears were clean, and not smelling bad at all. She was also not messing with them at all and was doing just fine.
.........Months later, I still have a whole bottle of Malaseb and some of the antibacterial ear drops. And she's been messing with her ears again much in the same way as last time, only this time its just concentrated on one ear. Same wax, same nasty smell, same shaking of the head.
So I've been giving her this stuff again like I did last time and it seems to be getting better.... kind of. I just wanted to make sure that this stuff doesnt go bad. Its just ear drops, and ear flush.
A friend of mine asked if I had put some Hydrogen Peroxide in her ear and I said no because I didnt know if that was ok or not.
Please help me out, my poor little dog is miserable at the moment. Thanks in advance for any help.
**EDIT**
I also still have the bottle of ear mite medication.
This wont hurt her this combination of ear stuff will it? For instance if it's not a fungal infection and it is Ear Mites, and Im putting Malaseb flush in there to kill it.
Or if its a fungal infection, and Im putting Ear Mite medication in there?
Im kind of broke at the moment and cant afford a $100 vet trip just for him to tell me to keep doing what Im doing....