Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Animal Health / November 2004

Jewel was on Baytril otic gtts for 10 days for a combo
bacterial/fungal ear infection.  Her ears had been very "gunky" at the
beginning, and up until the last two days of the drops I couldn't even
find where the ear canal was.  Through all this she did have some head
shaking, mainly around the third day when loads of stuff was emptying
out of the ear canals, but the shaking wasn't excessive.   Meds ended
but there still was some drainage despite irrigating them with an ear
wash once a day or every other day.  Not as much drainage as before,
but they still got dirty.  Started now on Tresaderm drops, twice daily
on Wed. evening.  Ears are looking better, starting to look cleaner.
Starting last nite she is shaking her head very frequently, more than
at any other point of this ordeal.  During the nite she never went
more than a minute without a good shaking until 4AM.  Not scratching
or rubbing, just the constant shaking.  At that point I cleaned out
her ear (wiped the outer ear with a q-tip), not a lot of stuff there,
and she finally went to sleep.  Today she is shaking a lot again.  And
again, ears still don't look that dirty, especially compared to the
last few months, canal entry looks pretty clean and open.  I think I
will skip the drops tonight to see if that makes any change.  She
won't run and play with me today, but does show interest in playing
with a string, just not all that enthusiastically.
Any ideas?  Thanks.
Teri