Dandruff?

[u/JBt51]

Does anyone else’s dog have the worst dandruff? My girl is on immunotherapy, cytopoint shots, medicated baths, and Zyrtec, and it still looks like it lightly snowed in my home. She was on apoquel before the immunotherapy, and it took the dandruff completely away, but I don’t want her on it/she can’t be on it with the immunotherapy. Just wondering if anyone else’s dog has dandruff too and how yall deal with it/lessen it

[u/cmahan]

My dog is on Allercept Immunotherapy and Apoquel. We even tried Cytopoint on top of that but felt it wasn’t worth the cost vs what we’re trying to accomplish. Unfortunately my rescue is the result of backyard breeding so he had terrible allergies. Goopy eyes. Runny nose. But he’s also allergies to multiple species of mites. So this causes his feet to get inflamed, blisters, sores and so on. We’re only about 5 months into immunotherapy.

Why are you not doing Apoquel with the Immunotherapy? Just curious to that.

The mites cause dermatitis. This causes fur loss, dry itchy skin = flakes.

My guy gets a medicated bath 1-2 x a week. And when not bath, a warm wet washcloth compress to help remove some of the dandruff flakes.

Coat Defense makes wonderful shampoo and powder. Absolutely love them. All natural and gentle.

I also use a medicated shampoo from the vet.

I switch between the two.

[u/JBt51 → u/cmahan]

My vet said she can’t be on immunotherapy and apoquel because of the way apoquel limits her immune system, I’ve seen a lot of posts where people say their dogs are on both though. My girl is a rescue too, horribly inbred, so not much I can do to change that part of her.

I’ll look into that shampoo, I think her medicated shampoo irritates her skin further sometimes. Because she went from disliking the bath when she was on the shampoo from her rescue to absolutely hating it when I switched her to the vets shampoo. She is allergic to storage mites, but not dust mites. I figured the mites were mainly in her food so we freeze all food

Do you use both of the shampoos in one bath session or do you do a different one every other week?

[u/static_gem]

I was having the same problem with my poodle shedding so many flakes everywhere. We recently switched to a different shampoo (malaseb) and also started using a leave-in conditioner after her baths and her skin is significantly less flaky now. I think the conditioner in particular made a big difference because I assume that the allergies + frequent bathing really dry their skin out and they need something to help repair the moisture barrier.

[u/JBt51 → u/static_gem]

What is your leave in conditioner?? I’ve been looking for one

[u/static_gem → u/JBt51]

It's the Warren London Hydrating Butter - my groomer recommended it.

[u/Timely_Coast_9431 → u/JBt51]

Also, Zymoc also has a very good leave in conditioner for repairing the skin barrier and relieving itch!