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Dog Health Questions: Runny Nose and Green Discharge

IdeaMan21 | May 16th, 2009

If you flush a dogs ears will the fluid come back out or go deeper hurting their ears gonna do a yeast flush. My friend has a Yorkie and it has a cough and runny nose with green discharge. Could this be fatal or just allergies? The dog is 13.
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Yorkie

Yorkie

Sounds like infection to me needs on some antibiotics. If inflammation from an infection makes cleaning the ears too painful, your Vet will probably recommend a “full ear flush” to remove built-up wax, pus and debris from deep inside the ear canal. This procedure is done while the dog is either sedated or under general anesthesia.

Messing around with ears when you don’t know what’s going on in there, it is not a good idea. This needs a vet check to make certain the eardrum is intact…often times it is not when there is an ongoing infection or yeast.

So yes, it could do further damage. The 13-year-old probably needs a vet check also. Could be allergies, could be kennel cough, hard to
tell.

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Dog Ear Infections: When Diet Change is All You Need

IdeaMan21 | April 22nd, 2009

What are they thinking??? Beef is usually not the source of problems. I would simplify the diet, and if I suspected allergy, simplify to one species of meat at a time, to pinpoint a possible dietary problem. I would up the beef unless I was convinced that the dog is allergic to it. I would also introduce liver in small doses and stuff like kidney and heart with adequate bone and fat. hope u find the solution.

Definitely discontinue the Brewer’s yeast. there is nothing that will make my dogs ears go yeasty faster. also watch out for flax in your dogs diet. That will contribute to problems for dogs that are susceptible.

I second the issue with food. A natural raw diet would be best but failing that look for a kibble that has no grains at all in it. And another thing I learned the hard way was to check the contents of treats and biscuits. lots of grains in those.

Solid Gold makes dried lamb lung treats which dogs love and you can
get dried liver, beef jerky etc. which are all good. Banish any grains. You might also want to google ‘ Blue Power’ It is an ear wash you make at home and is highly effective.

I personally know of quite a few dogs that have ear issues completely cleared with it. Cleared up my sister’s dogs ears which no amount of antibiotics and ear washes from the vet had been able to do.

But do it outside. The blue stains!

I’m thinking the grainy stuff they have been receiving over the past 2-3 weeks is the culprit. I’ve always fed them beef, along with other meats and organs. Their skin was fine, and their ears were clear. I’ve packed up the other dry stuff and told my daughter not to bring her old breads to the dogs.

The thing about the ears is that every toxin is lead out of the inner body to the outside, vis ears, skin, nose, eyes, and anywhere else there’s an opening of some kind.That’s also why its important to know whats going on in the ears, and which side it affects.

Its true she isn’t all that knowledgeable about raw feeding, since she does sell dog food in her office, but she has never told me to stop feeding raw. Like I said, I’ll drop all grains, and even the small treats, since they are made up wholly of grains.

Tonight I’m giving them a bath, we’ll take it from there. Oh, they’re getting an Epsom salt bath, should be excellent for their skins.

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Tags: carnivores, chronic ear infections, clean dog ears, dog health problems, dog health questions, dog problems, ear infections, ear wash, kibble, natural diet, natural raw diet, raw feeding, raw meat diet

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Dog Allergies: More on Dog Ear Infections and Diet

IdeaMan21 | April 18th, 2009

I just answered a thread about ear infections. I was thinking about
the diet, and remember giving the dogs these hard doggie biscuits. I
bet you they are just filled with grains with only a twinge of tripe,
as they are called tripe bread sticks.

Also, my daughter had brought over her old hardened breads. I guess they might have received way too many grain products, and now their bodies are trying to get rid of the toxins they’ve created within their digestive systems?

Makes more sense, since the right ears are affected.

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Dog Health Questions: Need a Solution For Cleaning Dog’s Ears

IdeaMan21 | April 8th, 2009

Hi everybody, I have a dog with a lot of wax and debris in its ears. I want to know some good solutions for washing or flushing its ears.
Any suggestions would be great.

I don’t have an ear wash solution (my dogs have never needed ear cleaning) but would suggest that if this is an ongoing problem that you re-evaluate the diet that your dog gets. Commercial, grain based diets often lead to ear issues. If this is the cause, you are only using a ‘bandaid’ approach by continually cleaning them out.

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Dog Health Questions: What to Use to Flush Dog’s Ears?

IdeaMan21 | April 4th, 2009

For flushing out your dog’s ears I’m often asked what to use. Since I have been doing this for so long I forget sometimes that this is the first go around for most people with dogs. So this is what I suggest.

You could use a syringe without the needle of course or I have one of those baby nasal suckers I draw up the liquid in it and use that it
has less force behind it!

Baby nasal aspirator

Baby nasal aspirator

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