In this video i'm talking about what mange is,
the symptoms to look out for and how to treat mange in dogs naturally, quickly, and effectively.
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We dog parents want a healthy happy dog that looks the picture of perfect health but when
something like mange is diagnosed and your dog looks downright unhappy with ugly skin problems,
it's time to take a serious look at the underlying cause, but more on this later.
Let's look at what mange is, the symptoms and how it can be successfully treated. There's two types
of mange, demodectic mange and sarcoptic mange. Both involve mites that live within your dog's
skin and on the surface of the skin, and vets will take a skin graft to determine which of the
mites is present. In the case of demodectic mage, the mites that normally live in balanced numbers
not harmful to your dog and deep within the skin, break out in large numbers causing boldness
and great irritation as hair falls out to leave your best friend in an ugly and uncomfortable way.
This leads to immune suppressing use of steroids, a dangerous and often long and expensive option
that can lead to bigger problems and the potential for small areas of mage to become more generalized
over the body. And if antibiotics are also involved, the problem can rapidly go downhill from
there as gut flora health is impaired, causing further health problems and the potential for
yeast infections. With sarcoptic mange the mites are at the surface level and become contagious
including to humans in the form of scabies. You'll notice the symptoms of localized sarcoptic mange
when you see a small sort of five cent sized clear patches of hairless skin showing up as
the hair falls out. And they continue to grow in size the longer they're left untreated.
There's also the potential for generalized mange when your dog's entire body is blighted
all at once with hair loss and infected red looking and possibly crusty and thickened skin.
The cause of the condition can be summarized this way: If your dog has generalized demodectic mange
over the body there's an imbalance in the immune system and in most cases it's diet that plays a
major role in stressing the immune system from inadequate nutrition. If your dog has
socoptic mange they've caught it from another animal. So how do you fix the problem before
it gets really out of control and avoid toxic and destructive veterinary drugs like dips, steroids,
and antibiotics. In both instances it's nature's neem oil to the rescue. Neem oil is one of the
best bug killers you can use and it's a natural holistic essential oil. It will kill everything
from fleas, ticks, ringworm, and lice, to mange mites. It's also very healthy for skin and hair.
I've been using neem oil on fleas, ticks, mites, and lice, for nearly 20 years
and it's been 100% successful every time. On one occasion my dog caught sarcoptic mange via local
foxes while walking the local park where I began to notice small round holes appearing on his back
where the hair had fallen, out exposing raw skin. I quickly applied neem oil to the affected areas,
killing the mites within hours and the hair grew back over the following month.
If your dog has generalized demodectic mange or has patches of sarcoptic mange mites or ringworm,
use pure neem, oil but don't use it neat especially if your dog has cracked or open skin,
weeping soars, etc. Neem oil is very concentrated and needs to be diluted with a carrier oil.
Dilute neem oil at a light starting regimen of one to ten, so that's one part neem oil to ten
parts carrier oil, with a light carrier oil like grape seed oil or almond oil. Mix well and then
massage the oil into the skin over the affected area and you can apply it daily on problem spots
for dogs hot spots, infected bug bites, or when treating dermadectic and subcoptic mange
and ringworm. It's possible to increase the neem oil concentration to a one to four ratio,
that's one part neem oil to four parts carrier oil. For example, one teaspoon of neem oil to
four teaspoons of carrier oil. Also keep an eye on the skin for potential reactions or
irritation and wash off with mild soapy water if any adverse reactions occur.
Generally though, neem oil is found to be an amazing skin and hair conditioner,
promoting healthier skin repair and a more lustrous shiny coat. One application should
be effective at killing all sarcoptic mites over your dog's skin, and reapplication daily over
a week will be needed to reach demodectic mites deeper in the skin. If using neem oil on puppies,
always mix the oil at ten to one that's ten parts carrier oil to just one part neem oil.
Simply rub it all over, avoiding the facial area. Leave on for an hour then comb through thoroughly
and wash off with a very mild puppy shampoo. And i'll link to my favorite in the description
below and at the link above. While you can buy commercial ready-made neem products like sprays,
I found that these refined extracts of azeradictin, the ingredient in neem oil, we need,
are always in too small a concentration to be effective. It's easy and much cheaper to make
your owner from pure neem oil and i know that it will be 100% effective every time. Not all neem
oils have the same quality sometimes the products offered are really just extracts of neem oil
and these extracts are lower in concentration for the insecticidal component azeradictin,
so keep an eye out for a hundred percent pure neem oil, also known as raw or crude neem oil. Look for
cold pressed and particularly organic neem oil so you know it's uncontaminated. Using heat solvents
or petrochemicals for extraction dramatically lowers the quality of azeradictin. And i'll
leave a link in the description below and above to a quality neem oil so you get the right option. If
generalized mange is a problem for your dog, then its nearly always diet that's causing the problem.
And feeding dry food alone will cause most dogs health problems at some point and demodectic
mange is a clear symptom of this immune system imbalance. That's why I created an ebook called
Feed Your Dig Better that begins with a simple but Healthier Kibble Diet and how you can quickly
boost your dog's kibble diet to affect real and lasting change in your dog's overall health.
I created a diet plan that simply involves adding specific combination of supplements
to your dog's kibble meal to boost the nutritional content of the meal and you'll find a link in the
description below or at the link above to a video explaining more about the Healthier Kibble Diet.
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