Isopropyl Alcohol
Reading about it online it sounds like nasty stuff? Or am I being paranoid? Ru's ear grease gets on all the fur around the ears & I can only pluck a little at a time and want to use something regularly to keep this grease down, if this stuff is safe, how often can I use it? Thanks |
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| I'm trying to remember.....I think I used rubbing alcohol and white vinegar 50:50 to keep Crumpet's ears clean. She was a real problem.
Anymore I buy the ear cleaning stuff but thankfully don't have ear-children right now. The commercial stuff is good enough for my guys as they don't need frequent cleaning. |
| I use it to wipe the flaps down because I always have it around. I always prefer ear cleaner wipes but I usually just use what's close to me when I'm thinking about it. |
| Listerine works well too and smells nice. I had some blue Listerine and worried it would dye the fur, but it didn't. This is what they used at the dog grooming school my daughter attended. Before that I just used alcohol. But Listerine does have alcohol in it. |
| Never heard of using Listerine before, interesting. |
| alchohol can be drying and sting according to my vet. he recommends water and vinegar half and half - it makes my girl crazy though so we use ear magic. now Listerine might smell alot better than ear magic with its citronella smell. wonder if I can use the listerine after to kill the smell? |
| I am certainly no expert. However, I had kids with "swimmers ear", (where water gets in the ear and does not dry, and then causes an infection - or something like that) and it is painful. Part of the treatment for it contains alcohol, and the stuff you use later for prevention is almost all alcohol. The doctor said we could use that, or just put a few drops of alcohol in the ears after swimming.
My take on the whole thing is that you put the alcohol in for the purpose of making sure the ear gets dry. It has been years since I learned all this, but it is just second nature to me to put alcohol in everyone's ears. (Not gallons!) When I got these dogs I was given access to a website with ear information and a recipe for ear cleaner. There is a lot of information (or words) on this website, I have not sorted it all out but get the impression something happened at one time or another that was controversial. I do not wish to be involved in the controversy (if one exists) but was told that the actual ear stuff is good. So here is the link if interested: http://www.itsfortheanimals.com/BLUE.HTM[/url] |
| Blue Power.
Our basset rescue swears by it. I have used it on rescues that come in with nasty ears, no problems at all. If it works in basset ears, it will work in any other dogs!! |
got sheep wrote: Blue Power.
Our basset rescue swears by it. I have used it on rescues that come in with nasty ears, no problems at all. If it works in basset ears, it will work in any other dogs!! dawn does it help prevent problems? That's why I started using the ear magic - when I remember it seems to cut down on problems with Marley. Of course if I forget and feed her biscuits with chicken in them it doesn't help   |
| I use the Ear Magic too and it seems to work pretty well. |
| A 50/50 mix of isopropyl alcohol is an old-time solution for cleaning ears that works for occasional use but gives them an ear smelling of vinegar for a day or so. Most of my OES have had ear infections at one time or another and if they were severe, I've usually taken them into my vet to have the type of infection identified (they usually turned out to be "yeast" infections rather than bacterial). She once told me that anything that could be used for a douche was appropriate-- which was not helpful information to me as a man.
I think that if the infection is severe or persistent, you need a prescription anti-bacterial/anti-fungal like Momentomax or Otomax to really knock down the infection. Use it for the full 10 days or whatever your vet tells you to. It is important to keep excess hair pulled out as well. If your dog is prone to recurring ear problems, a regular cleaning routine is probably a good idea. |
rfloch wrote: A 50/50 mix of isopropyl alcohol is an old-time solution for cleaning ears that works for occasional use but gives them an ear smelling of vinegar for a day or so. Most of my OES have had ear infections at one time or another and if they were severe, I've usually taken them into my vet to have the type of infection identified (they usually turned out to be "yeast" infections rather than bacterial). She once told me that anything that could be used for a douche was appropriate-- which was not helpful information to me as a man.
I think that if the infection is severe or persistent, you need a prescription anti-bacterial/anti-fungal like Momentomax or Otomax to really knock down the infection. Use it for the full 10 days or whatever your vet tells you to. It is important to keep excess hair pulled out as well. If your dog is prone to recurring ear problems, a regular cleaning routine is probably a good idea. If your dog is prone to ear infections for various reasons than cleaning helps, it can't avoid all of them. a lot of ear infections are due to allergies, and then we have the baths where (pick one) 1) we forgot the ear cotton; 2) they pawed it out of their ears the minute you got soap in your eyes; or 3) they shook them out when you turned around to get the soap. We use a cream vetimax (I think) The vet just makes sure I always have one for when they progress beyond the runny stage. I did use OTC yeast infection medication on one of the dogs - it worked very well. you can usually tell if its an yeast infection by the smell. |
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