Monday, August 25, 2014

After Parvo: A very hungry Shih Tzu with hair loss

Gittik (our Shih Tzu) recovered from a nasty Parvo infection. We almost lost her; she was on various antibiotics and IVs and what not for three weeks (will post about that also now that i have recovered from the shock of it all) in March. Fortunately, she has recovered quite well apart from a few minor issues.

1. She developed massive human like hunger and ate herself to (almost) obesity (we were at fault too because she had turned into a skeleton and we wanted her to get back to normal and let her eat) till we realized that she was lazy and a total bum. I put her on a diet and she is back to her normal self...Phew!

(Images of her belly - extremely full)

2.She lost hair! When she fell ill, we shaved her and the hair didn't grow back. Its not that she is bald, but the coat has diminished and the skin is pink. She was not itching much so we know it was not a rash and kept hoping that it'll come back. However 5 months later, the little hair she has is about an inch and half long and thinned out radically (the only place it didn't thin out is on her face), some parts have no hair, the skin is pink and scaly (its like she has dandruff). 

The vet initially gave her vitamin E which she has been on for 2 weeks and a shampoo to bathe her with every 3 days(we have to apply it and leave her for 5 to 10 min before washing it out). On our last visit to the vet 2 days ago, he further prescribed another shampoo called "Polytar", Vitamin E with Selenium (that is only available from GNC) and an anti fungal called "Fluconazole" to be given for every 4 days (10 pills - This he gave because i insisted that it has to be fungal. i think). He says its a side effect of all the medication and that the hair will grow back. I will keep everyone posted on whether this works or not!

No comments:

Post a Comment