Hello Everyone, this is my first post and hopefully not the last
I felt like some issues I have with Charlie can be a bit frustrating in terms of its origin.. hopefully you have some advice which I can follow in this instance.
I know that Cockapoos are prone to ear infections. With Charlie, our 6 year old cockapoo, we had infection of his right year in December 2022. Went to the vet, gave him prescribed medicine for 2 weeks (Aurimic). A week later an infection came back so we went back to the vet and gave additional course of Aurimic. After 2 weeks of medicine we had a break of 3 weeks as we were away (this is end of January - beginning of February) and Charlie was staying with my MIL (who didn't give any medicine to him). When we came back, mid February, I noticed that his infection came back, for a week I continued giving him the usual Aurimic... but no visual success, in addition Charlie started yelping every time he would scratch his ear.. Off to the vet we went again.
We got some painkillers to deal with his pain and steroids. This time they also prescribed Easotic, since Aurimic wasn't helping anymore. After a week of this course of medicine we stopped the pills and continued with another week of Easotic. After a week when we stopped it, the ear was once again flooded with discharge.
Went to vet again.. (March)
Our vet said that it is just an yeasty discharge, not an infection. We just need to flush this ear twice a day (but not overclean it...) for some time until it goes away...
It's been almost a month now, cleaning one ear twice a day, the yeast still accumulates every day (morning starts with shaking his head), surely we can do something to stop this???!
P.S. I saw an add about probiotics, so decided to try, Charlie has been on probiotics for the past two weeks now... no change so far.
