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1yo male EB with rashes on face and losing weight

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Question
My bulldog is having rashes on his face (under the ear on both sides of face) coming back from the kennel. The vet at the kennel put him on a 10 days dose of clavamox (he is up to day 5 now) and the skin rashes are now drying up into large scabs (it must've been raw before). I also noticed my bulldog is losing weight (was 24.5kg before and now on 22kg). I feed him earthborn holistic (lamb) 2.5 cup per day (split into 2 meals) and supplement him with fish oil and vit E. Can you please help and suggest if I should be doing things differently. Thank you!

Answer
Hi Lenka,  Sorry your bulldog has been having skin troubles ;  Sounds like the Vet is treating it as a staph infection;  See if you can buy a therapy oatmeal bath/shampoo for dogs.  As far as food, add more cooked meat to his dry kibble;  cook up 1/2 pound of ground hamburger or ground lamb ;  You can add 1/2 cup of this meat per day into the am meal;
If you can add this home-cooked meat to his diet it will be helpful.

Best wishes,

Marie Peppers LPN MA
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