My GSP female has been diagnosed with the genetic type of mange (6 1/2 months old). I am giving her the medicine my vet gave me .
My question is, will she continually break out or once i treat it will it be done?
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depends on her immune system but most of the time it does cure it
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If you feel like you are banging your head against the wall, try using the door.
Scott,
Demodex can be brought on by a number of factors. If she has recently had shots, depending upon the shots given, they may compromise the immune system and cause an outbreak. Too much general stress to the dog, ie. heavy training, being left in a strange place while you were on vacation, etc... can also cause stress on the immune system and allow for an outbreak of Demodex. What it boils down to is: her immune system has been stressed in any number of ways and this has allowed the Demodex Mite to get an upper hand against her immune system. Depending on how bad the condition is, it is often recommended that you not treat a pup on an initial outbreak and see if her immune system picks up and beats it, if it does, reoccurence is often not an issue. Should her immune system not pick up and get the mite under control, treatment becomes mandatory, the pup should be spayed/neutered and the breeder at any rate should be notified as it should affect their future breeding plans. There is alot of info out there on the web concerning Demodex. I'm guessing you were given Ivomec?? or are they doing the dip??
I had 1 pup in 30, out of 3 different litters from a repeat breeding come up with Demodex and started doing alot of research, as I feared it was genetic going back to my Sire or Dam. After much research the owner and I determined that he was putting too much training stress on her. When he stopped training, she cleared up on her own. He had started training hard at 3 mo.s and by 6 mo.s had her on a level that many hunters would have been tickled with. He backed off and let her grow up a few months before doing any further training with her and she has not had a reoccurence since and she is now 15 months old.
Hope this gives you some food for thought...
Demodex can be brought on by a number of factors. If she has recently had shots, depending upon the shots given, they may compromise the immune system and cause an outbreak. Too much general stress to the dog, ie. heavy training, being left in a strange place while you were on vacation, etc... can also cause stress on the immune system and allow for an outbreak of Demodex. What it boils down to is: her immune system has been stressed in any number of ways and this has allowed the Demodex Mite to get an upper hand against her immune system. Depending on how bad the condition is, it is often recommended that you not treat a pup on an initial outbreak and see if her immune system picks up and beats it, if it does, reoccurence is often not an issue. Should her immune system not pick up and get the mite under control, treatment becomes mandatory, the pup should be spayed/neutered and the breeder at any rate should be notified as it should affect their future breeding plans. There is alot of info out there on the web concerning Demodex. I'm guessing you were given Ivomec?? or are they doing the dip??
I had 1 pup in 30, out of 3 different litters from a repeat breeding come up with Demodex and started doing alot of research, as I feared it was genetic going back to my Sire or Dam. After much research the owner and I determined that he was putting too much training stress on her. When he stopped training, she cleared up on her own. He had started training hard at 3 mo.s and by 6 mo.s had her on a level that many hunters would have been tickled with. He backed off and let her grow up a few months before doing any further training with her and she has not had a reoccurence since and she is now 15 months old.
Hope this gives you some food for thought...
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"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten"
Mark Twain
Bruce, Raine, Storm and GSP's
Almost Heaven GSP's
"In Search of the Perfect GSP";)
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