Post by emilys on Jul 14, 2009 16:13:13 GMT -5
I just got back from the CSU Vet school dermatology dept, where I had an appointment for Mr P to follow up on his recent mange (since his hair hasn't grown completely back in a couple of small spots). Good news: no mites showing up in the scraping, and at 2 years old, localized mange is still considered adolescent and not a serious concern (as opposed to much older dogs where it may reflect underlying immune problems).
Bottom line: treatment of choice now for localized demodectic mange is: Advantage Multi (a Bayer product). I had actually read about this on my boards from folks in the UK. See: Advantage Multi is sold in other countries as "Advocate" and is labelled (and has been clinically tested) against d. manage. In the US, it's NOT labelled for mange, but it is exactly the same product. Vets are allowed to use drugs "offlabel" so they can legally prescribe Advantage Multi (and it's available only by Rx). My vet had used Revolution, but the dermatologist said that wasn't very effective.
So if you have a young dog with d. mange, ask your vet about Advantage Multi (and you can google "Advocate" to get the package insert which describes the treatment.)
As you may know, the challente with mange in young dogs is that it is often self-limiting/curing, and the creepy little mites are always present anyway, even when there are no signs. So the fact that the signs of mange go away may not actually have anything to do with the treatment you've used... ??? Sometimes vets treat just the secondary infection with antibiotics and that works too...
Bottom line: treatment of choice now for localized demodectic mange is: Advantage Multi (a Bayer product). I had actually read about this on my boards from folks in the UK. See: Advantage Multi is sold in other countries as "Advocate" and is labelled (and has been clinically tested) against d. manage. In the US, it's NOT labelled for mange, but it is exactly the same product. Vets are allowed to use drugs "offlabel" so they can legally prescribe Advantage Multi (and it's available only by Rx). My vet had used Revolution, but the dermatologist said that wasn't very effective.
So if you have a young dog with d. mange, ask your vet about Advantage Multi (and you can google "Advocate" to get the package insert which describes the treatment.)
As you may know, the challente with mange in young dogs is that it is often self-limiting/curing, and the creepy little mites are always present anyway, even when there are no signs. So the fact that the signs of mange go away may not actually have anything to do with the treatment you've used... ??? Sometimes vets treat just the secondary infection with antibiotics and that works too...