Do women's remedies for vaginal yeast infection work for dog ear yeast infection?
April 27, 2010 by admin
Filed under Yeast Infection Tips
My dog, a Golden Retriever, has what it seems to be a bad case of yeast infection in both ears (not the first time). I have read that I should change his food etc. but first I need to clear his infection. I have been to the vet several times about this in the past and paid expensive medicines that seems to work just for short period of time. A co-worker suggested to use over-the-counter medicine to treat vaginal yeast infection. Does anyone has any experiense/comment/thought about this?
My husky developed some kind of rash on her ears too. They looked like flaky spots and would turn red and bleed a little if you scratched them.
I figure that it was some kind of fungus eating the skin.
I sprayed Tinactin (for athlete’s foot) on the ears (On the affected area only, NOT inside the ear-canal).
I cured it on one application. Her ears are very healthy now.
My dog’s ears are a little hairy on the inside and that helped to keep the Tinactin solution on the spots.
What DaveSFV says on the previous answer makes sense if you give your dog some kind of internal medication for humans, something that the dog has to ingest, but in this case you are using a cream or liquid that has the same ingredients as many dog’s medication. You can go to the store and compare ingredients on both medications. It is the same fungus that eat human and animal skin.
My schnauzer had one in her ears. The vet said she had too much fur in her ears, which caused the infection. She gave us some special ear drops. (and plucked the hair)
why does everyone insist on using people meds for their pets.
I can understand if you have medication left over from some previous illness and you absolutely don’t have the money for him and he is almost dead but my god.
Please, guys get animal medication for your pets.
I cringe when I read these questions.
NEVER give human medications to an animal without first consulting a vet! You could do a lot more harm than good.
Only give an animal human medication if the veterinarian tells you it’s okay to do so.
NO.. it may be a different strain of yeast. If they are not working your vet needs to prescribe something else.
The over the counter med won’t work any longer than your vet’s med. If it’s a diet change he needs than what’s the point of treating the symptoms and not the cause? Also, dogs can have different infections, it will only work if it’s really yeast.
I have never heard that. We have a beagle who gets ear infections. To prevent- he gets allergy shots, and twice weekly I clean his ears with a product I get from our vet- aloclens ortic cleaner- and it works great!
You may have to have his ears cleaned first by the vet to get to the root of the problem.
I highly doubt that it would work. Yeast infections can be caused by a whole aray of different yeasts and if you dont know which ones caused it you dont know which meds will treat it.
I would call and ask the vet before you do anything. It doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.
Do not use this on your dog. You still need the medicines that your vet prescribes. In my memory, those medicines are not extremely expensive as a matter of fact very comparable to the women’s over the counter medicines. You are correct, you need to start changing your dogs diet as your dog seems to have chronic yeast. I would suggest looking up holisitic remedies for chronic yeast that your dog has. You will find a great deal of helpful information.
I don’t see why not a yeast infeacton is a yeast infection.
Different part of the body = different bacteria.
Well duh! Would you try to make bread with yeast that is used to ferment grapes? Would you try to cure foot fungus with a product made to kill lawn fungus? My comments are to seek out the advice of a person trained in veterinary medicine and do it correctly the first time. As another person answered, don’t use any human medication on your animal unless directed by a veterinarian. I’ve seen people on this forum recommend human medications for dogs that if administered will kill them.