I was standing in waterlogged aquatic weeds in a small lake and I received numerous bites on my legs. The irritation and itching got of poorer quality after 24 hours. Someone said it force be duck mites but I don’t reckon they live in aquatic weeds. Does anyone have a clue?
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My dog is excessivly Itching every where!!!?
Ok so our three-year-ancient Shepard mix is itchy. She is a rescue from Virginia just before hurricane Katrina made land fall.
We like her to death but she is so itchy. Her ears, neck, chest, face, tail, stomach, all four legs especially her hock’s, ok her entire body is itchy. Along her spine she has patches of peeling skin and sparse hair due to biting and scratching. Her chest is becoming red and inflamed. Her hocks are very red and have little hair.
Her itchiness came about two months after we got her. At first we though flea’s or mites she was tested and the results were negative. Slowly she started loosing hair around her eyes and mouth (it grew back). She was placed on fish oil, anti microbial baths, allergen free foods, no foods that were possible allergens (so in the end she got two different treats one was salmon and one was venison), and a oil she was less itchy for a few months and she was super itchy again. She was switched to a salmon food and everything else stayed the same she got better and then of poorer quality a few month later. She was tested for everything from roundworm to lime disease to hyper thyroid to scabies to mites and everything in between.
Right now she gets three medicated baths a week, two oatmeal baths a week, two fish pills a day, one splash of extra virgin olive oil in her food, fish oil added to her food, Solid gold seaweed powder (it has flaxseed and seaweed and other stuff) in both meals, she is brushed double a week, Benadryl every day, and science diet (the only food that helped her itchiness). We have tried Vectra 3D, Advantix, Revolution, and Benefit the Vectra and Benefit did nothing, Revolution so so, and Advantix was good but did not stop the itching. All that and she is still itchy.
We have ruled out peanut, dairy, chicken, bovine, duck, venison, and lamb allergies.
All the foliage (which she likes to run through) are raked out of her reach. We don’t use pesticides, we vacuum every day, we use hypo allergenic detergent, all the pet beds are cleaned weekly and shook out side daily, the carpets are shook daily, we don’t use lighten or any non plant based chemicals in the household, her toys are washed three times a week, and we dust only when she is out side.
We are at our wits end. Have you ever had a super itchy dog? What did you do? Are there any remedies we have not tried? Could it be pollen since she is from Virginia and we live in New England?
Sorry its long =)
She is 20 time of poorer quality with out baths. She is itchier andshe gets more red spots.
Other human members of our family are allergic to wool, fabric softeners, and pollen so measures to get rid of those have by now been taken.
She is not allergic to eggs.
She dose not eat anything containing soy or corn or wheat.
Dariy allergies have also been ruled out.