Treatment methods for dog ear mites

1. Inject ear oil into the ear canal, and then massage gently to help clean it, which can kill many mites.
2. Use a metal ring to remove a large amount of exudate that is close to the eardrum during the cleaning process.
3. Apply acaricides after cleaning: commonly used acaricides such as Conex, dimethyl phthalate, and protective oil matrix solutions are instilled into the ear canal once a day.
4. For severely sick dogs, the dog’s entire body should be treated with parasiticide powder or medicinal bath every day to kill mites that are not in the external auditory canal.
5. If there are inflammatory lesions, hydrocortisone neomycin ointment should be applied to the inflammatory site until the inflammation subsides.

Causes of dog ear mites

1. The male body length of dog ear itch mite is 0.35-0.38 mm, and there are two slender hairs at the end of its third pair of legs; the female The body length of the insect is 0.46-0.53 mm. The fourth pair of legs is underdeveloped and cannot protrude from the edge of the body. It is 3 times shorter than the third pair of legs. The third and fourth pairs of legs have no suckers.
2. It lives in the external auditory canal of dogs and makes a living by piercing the skin to suck lymph and exudate, resulting in irritation, inflammation and scab formation.
3. Sometimes due to secondary bacterial infection, the lesions can penetrate deep into the middle ear, inner ear and meninges.

Symptoms of ear mites in dogs

1. Ear itching mites parasitize the outer ears of dogs, causing a large amount of ear fat secretion and lymph fluid leakage. And often secondary suppuration. There is an itching sensation, and the sick dog keeps shaking its head, scratching its ears, whining, rubbing its ears on objects, and even causing bleeding in the external auditory canal. Sometimes a rotational movement is made to the side with more serious lesions. Later, the lesions may spread to the forehead and the back of the ear shell.
2. There is dark brown wax and exudate in the ear canal, and sometimes there is a phosphorus-like scab.
3. If the meninges are invaded, the sick dog will show symptoms of madness.
4. Use an otoscope to examine the ear canal. You can find small white or flesh-colored ear itch mites moving on the dark brown exudate. Examining the exudate with a magnifying glass or a low-power microscope can prove that it is a dog. Ear itch mites.
5. When the symptoms are not obvious enough, you can take the scab on the skin of the affected area to check whether there are insects.