Hello, I posted a few times right after we got our puppy and got much needed help from you all. I'm hoping again you can give me some much needed advice. Our Dakota is now almost 9 months and is doing quite well behavior wise and potty training. But we noticed awful redness and lots of wax in her ears and lots of itching so we took her in a week ago. The vet said he wasn't quite sure what she had but that it was likely a bacterial infection and gave us Mometamax which we used for a week and saw no change so we brought her back in today and he gave us Otomax. Said if we wanted we could stop giving her all medications for 2 weeks and bring her back in for a culture. I guess the medicine messes up the test results, understandable. Anyway I just felt that we weren't given any real plan as to what to do to clear it up. He said the 2nd medication was unlikely to clear it up since the first one didn't so we're going to wait to do the culture, but he also said that based on the culture's results we might just find out that she has certain bacteria/yeast/etc. and that she's resistant to the medications to treat it. So -sorry to make this so long- I have no experience with this and am wondering first of all how to keep her other ear health because obviously we haven't been doing as good of a job taking care of her ears as we thought, and secondly, if any of you have had this experience-how have you gone about getting it cleared up. The vet kept talking about how we might have to have surgery for her to get tubes put in and that this might be a lifelong thing and I just can't accept this for her.
Thanks in advance so much,
Dakota and Worried Mommy
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Thanks in advance so much,
Dakota and Worried Mommy
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