THE PROBLEMS I HAVE HAD THIS WEEK WITH HIS SKIN

this started wed, he went upstairs at about 8 pm about 9pm he came down and had 2 lumps one by his nose and one in the corner of his eye , i thought he had just scratched himself but by about 11 he had got worse where he was lying down , so i was thinking had one of y teens sprayed something on their beds as by now the lumps were quite bad , but they hadnt so i decided to give him piriton and hopefully all would be ok , well that night he was scratchjing and itching i was up with him on and off , he was rubbing his face on the carpet , i leave for work at 5.00 am and by then he seemed to have settled so wasnt too worried , rang the hubby up about 8.00 am expecting him to say Trouble was ok but he said he has got worse and as we were speaking more lumps were coming up , i told him to phone vet and give more piriton . The pictures were taken at 2pm but by the time i got to the vet at 5pm they had gone down so it was a good job i took them , the vet said that some insect had bitten him and he had had a severe reaction , he gave a very strong steroid injection , well 2 hours later they had all come back up just like above , we had another night of crying and rubbing the face and we had to do the back for him , it mad me so sad to see him like this and TBH i thought he had developed more food allergies and in my darkest thought i did think how much more can this dog take and would it be kinder to you know what (i now feel very silly but i was an emotional wreck at the time) , i was thinking my vet obviously had got it wrong , but the next day once the steroid had the chance to work they had completely gone , we went back to vets for check up , he was pleased but if he gets bitten again i have to get emergency treatment as that was quite bad and next time it may be worse . we have no idea what bit him whether it was out on his walk or something flying in the bedroom , so i am guessing my vet did now what he was talking about ,

my sam was just like it his face was twice the normal size.

did your vet tell you you can buy pill from boots to help?

yeah piriton but thanks to this forum i had already done that

Ohh poor baby That looks nasty >< To you both.. I hope he is feeling better..

this for my sam weight so it may be different for yours

Chlorpheniramine 4mg "piriton" one or 2 upto 3 time daily
Acrivastine "piritize" one or 2 upto 3 time daily
Cetrizine "Benadryl" one daily

if you phone up you vet tomoz and ask about the follow 3 you can shock up on them just in case it happen in the future

yeah it is 2 piriton for Trouble 1 tab twice a day , i am just gonna do this for life now because of the environmental allergies as well

yea i got my first aid stock up i though i was going lose my sam he woke me up about 12 at night he face was huge i couldn't belieave my eyes

was his a bite?

i'm not sure but thanks god it hasn't happen again but the vet said it could happen again

Steve wrote:this for my sam weight so it may be different for yours

Chlorpheniramine 4mg "piriton" one or 2 upto 3 time daily
Acrivastine "piritize" one or 2 upto 3 time daily
Cetrizine "Benadryl" one daily

if you phone up you vet tomoz and ask about the follow 3 you can shock up on them just in case it happen in the future

sorry you only need 1 of the follow 3 sorry my typing is bad

i had realised that lol ....if you gave all that we would have zombie dogs lol

i think it will be likey to be a bee or wasp

that's definitely hives.

Harv got them once when he got stung/bit by something at the park, i bathed him in cool water to help with the itchiness and gave piriton and it went within a few days

yeah it was the heat from him sleeping with us made it worse but the vet said that his reaction was so bad that another time i see them coming up to just rush him down there because obviously each time it can be worse . But all is good now and i got my little furry boy back to normal

Skye came up with something like this when we went for a walk and using piriton they took a couple of days to go down worked out she had run through poison oak

Hope trouble feels better soon

Rocky has had this a couple of times, it was an allergic reaction to something or other. Tesco own brand non drowsy antihistamines did the trick.

happens more times than i would like round here with daisy, and then she loses patches of fur in spots also. takes about a week to get her through everything.