Poor dog.

[rootofnewt]

So . . . Whiskey has scabies (eeeek!), hookworm (eh.), and heartworm (shit).

Scabies should resolve shortly with a couple rounds of Revolution. Hookworm got the first pill today and will get another in three weeks. Heartworm treatment starts Monday.

None of this is a surprise. He was woefully neglected--worms are pretty much a given.

I think I'm going to stop eating meat and do a pantry challenge. And give up getting coffee out for a couple months. Or just drastically cut back.

In other news, he's a very good dog and the vet thinks he'll pull through the treatment just fine.

The biggest problem I have (financial worries are just a big old sigh) is the fact that I already itch constantly. I have a rash that my doc *thinks* is viral and which doesn't respond to anything, so I'm on atarax. If I also end up with scabies, I'll just go soak in a vat of gasoline and contemplate self-immolation.

Off I go to start a two-week cycle of hot water washes of EVERYTHING.

And maybe I'll just go ahead and make a pre-emptive derm appointment. It's not like I don't have reason to see a dermatologist already.

Comments

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Poor dog. I am so glad that he has found a home with you guys.

And the itching sucks. Fingers crossed that the hot water washes work!

[ladymeshel.livejournal.com]

Poor doggie! I hope everything turns out ok. How great of you to take on a dog with issues after what you've recently been through. Yay, rescue dogs!

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Everything I read about onset of symptoms said 20-40 days . . . and then I was going nuts with finger itching tonight, so I looked up that data to reassure myself and declare myself a victim of hypochondria. And it said that if you've had prior infection, you can react within a couple days. o_O I'm pretty sure I had it as a kid.

Damn it. And Tom's gone off to WFM without his phone, so I can't ask him to pick up some tamanu oil.

I have some neem, but just opening the bottles makes me woozy. I don't know how people use the stuff.

[wolfden.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised the rescue didn't vet him prior to placement.

I've seen many dogs get heartworms treated without issue. Hook worms are very common tho I would remove his poop quickly as hook worms can remain in the soil a long time (inceptor will help prevent reinfection following heart worm treatment).

Did they actually see scabies mites in a skin scraping? With the kind of neglect he's had I wouldn't have been surprised if he had demodex.

Poor puppy. I hate he has so many issues. Hopefully, he'll be all fixed up quick as can be.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Yes, our vet scraped and found scabies, not demodex. This is good, as scabies can be treated without causing adult heartworm die-off. So we could start scabies treatment today.

The rescue had him seen for a skin infection and he was on abx and pred for that. They also had him neutered and got his shots. But the shot record they provided looks weird, so our vet repeated parvo (the parvo they use here is parvo & lepto. Lepto's an issue here and it's important). They said they were waiting to finish up this round of treatment before testing for heartworm.

I think it's odd that the other vet didn't do a skin scraping, though. I think that the rescue is just very small and mostly out of pocket for the main person involved.

We clean up poop right away. Kids play in the yard, after all.

[inahappycrowd.livejournal.com]

Kudos to you on the adoption! Poor dog, for what he has already been through in his short little life. I'm glad that he's better off now.

I just did a quick search for scabies out of curiosity and it might make you feel better that I found this:

Dogs and cats are infected by different types of mites than those which infect humans. Animals are not a source of spread of human scabies. Scabies on dogs is called mange. When canine or feline mites land on human skin, they fail to thrive and produce only a mild itch that goes away on its own. This is unlike human scabies which gets worse and worse unless the condition is treated.

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/scabies/article.htm

[inahappycrowd.livejournal.com]

I just realized that I've commented twice with kudos now. Heh. Guess I REALLY mean it... ;-)

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did find that eventually, which was somewhat of a relief.

The bigger concern is that I already have very broken skin, so any extra irritants are a bad thing.

[inahappycrowd.livejournal.com]

That's understandable.