What to do if your dog has an ear infection

Treatments for Dog Ear Inflammation

1. Let the dog find a comfortable posture first. Ears take a little while to clear.
2. If there is ear hair in the dog's ear, you need to use ear hair powder to pull out the ear hair first, pour a little ear hair powder on the part of the ear hair, rub the dog's outer ear, and let the ear hair powder stick to the skin First, the ear hair powder has an anesthetic effect, and it can be done by hand or with the eyebrow plucking tool used by humans.
3. Use a cotton swab to carefully touch the outer ear of the dog, which is where it can be seen, to clean the corners of the ear pinna.
4. Extend the mouth of the bottle of ear drops to the depth of the dog's outer ear, where the ear hole can be seen, and drop 5-6 drops at a time.
5. When dripping, it is best to hold the medicine bottle with the left hand, and pull the dog's ear with the right hand. After the ear oil is quickly dripped into the ear canal, the right hand that is pulling the ear quickly clamps the root of the dog's ear with the thumb and index finger and squeezes. Press, the squeeze mentioned here is the opposite pressure of the thumb and index finger. The hand shape is that the thumb and index point to the root of the dog's ear, and the other three fingers face outward. Dogs love it this way.
6. After applying medicine to both ears, face each other from the back of the dog’s head, and squeeze the dog’s ears repeatedly at the 45-degree angle of the back of the dog’s head, so that the medicine will go deep into the dog’s ears place.
7. Use a cotton swab to clean the dog's outer ear.

Dog Ear Inflammation Symptoms

1. Dog ear inflammation is divided into otitis externa and otitis media. The initial symptoms are flushing, edema, and itching of the external auditory canal, and light yellow serous secretions flow out from the ear canal, staining the coat of the lower part of the ear.

2. Dogs tend to show restlessness, often shaking their heads, or dawdling and scratching their ears. As the disease progresses, local swelling intensifies, or pustules appear, and brown-black foul-smelling purulent secretions flow out, which often leads to hair loss or dermatitis at the root of the ear, and hearing loss in sick dogs.

3. When it becomes chronic, it will be good and bad, recurrent, and can cause tissue thickening in the ear canal, and even tumors, resulting in thickening of the skin of the auricle, deformation of the auricle, and hearing impairment.

4. In severe cases, the inflammation invades the facial nerve and parasympathetic nerve, causing facial paralysis, keratitis sicca, and perforation of the tympanic membrane can be seen by otoscopy of the nasal mucosa.