Skin Problems

For a few weeks now, Jesse has been scratching quite badly on and off. He (and all the others) was treated for fleas with frontline spray. He was much better after that and all but stopped. But two weeks later he was scratching again. So I frontlined them all again with the drop ons this time. The scratching got yet again much better... but over the last week or so, it is quite bad again! It's only two weeks after the last flea treatment, so I can't give him anymore.

At the same time, I am struggling to find a diet that suits him! On the CSJ TurDucKen, his poos just weren't getting any better and also his coat seemed to be suffering. So I ended up changing him onto Nature Diet Original. To start off, this worked well without throwing up or soft poos... but soon he pretty much developped colitis with mucousy poos! I have now changed him to the Lamb variety... that was yesterday and - touch wood - his first poo today was fine (though the second one still yellow and soft). So I am hoping to have found the solution there. I know that he has food allergies and I know one of them is gluten, but it's trying to work out what all the others are. With the Lamb Nature Diet, there is now one protein source and that will allow me to gradually add other foods to see what he reacts to.

Re the scratching... it got so bad that I asked my vet whether I could give him Tavergil (anti-hystamines), which they agree to. So I gave him one tablet last night and one this morning... and I think he is scratching less already!

We'll see... I have him booked in to see the vet on Monday. If the tablets work, I will cancel it as it will then be most likely still be the flea allergy... If he continues to scratch excessively over the week-end, I will take him to see the vet!