I am going to recap as quickly as possible.
As many of you may remember, Ollie started losing hair in little spots throughout his coat. He had a line around his neck where his tag bag lays with hair missing and a medallion sized one with NO hair where his tag bag rests in the center of his lower neck. The collar is not tight on him at all.
THe loss of hair started right after he had a few fleas, was treated with advantage and capstar. One week after treatment we treated with pred for 10 days because he was still scratching.
We went to see 2 vets. One treated with 10 days of clavomox to make sure it was not an under the skin infection. The 2nd vet (one of the big guns who is pretty much retired and comes in for very brief periods one or 2 days a week) He said just leave it, sometimes he gets worse before better. But unless we do a skin bx, there is no way of really knowing and he was not ready to do a skin bx just yet.
We are now almost 2 months since this started. Ollie's coat has some peach fuzz growing in some of the spots BUT his thighs are now bald. Totally.That medallion shaped spot is totally bald. When I take a magnifying glass, there is no hair growth.
In addition, now his deep red coat is turning BLOND? WTH is going on?
I have noticed Teddy's hair also is getting weird.
Common denominator?
They both were on pred for 10 days.
They both eat raw.
They both started melatonin back in the early summer and had AMAZING, truly AMAZING results. I backed off because I did not want them looking like Borzis and I have been giving them the melatonin every other day.
Could it be the melatonin? Lack of nutrients? Pred? (it was only 10 days and it was over a month ago)
This is insane!
This is from tonight.