Has anyone found a solution?
My poor girl has come down Collagen Lip again. It's been about 5 months since the last flare up. Before that about 3 months. Then two weeks between incidents. Her bowls have been changed from ceramic to stainless steel, her food from various run of the mill stuff to very expensive hypo-allergenic stuff, there don't seem to be any observable environmental or stress triggers...but the lip is slowly swelling up again. I noticed it on Monday. It just looked like a little pimple under her bottom lip, but I knew what that was going to lead to so started her back on the anti-biotics I still had left from her spaying two weeks ago (same type as the vet has given me for the other Eosinophilic flare ups). When I've taken her in for this in the past the vet has given her a steroid shot and then it's two weeks of anti-biotics twice a day. So far just the anitbiotics haven't seemed to have had any impact as the bump is still growing larger. I'm really worried about the long term effects of giving her not just antibiotics so regularly, but, also, the steroid shots. To compound the problem this time, our vet is out of town til Monday and I'll have to take her in to see a vet who isn't familiar with her condition. If anyone has any advice about this condition, I'd really appreciate hearing it. Thank you.
My poor girl has come down Collagen Lip again. It's been about 5 months since the last flare up. Before that about 3 months. Then two weeks between incidents. Her bowls have been changed from ceramic to stainless steel, her food from various run of the mill stuff to very expensive hypo-allergenic stuff, there don't seem to be any observable environmental or stress triggers...but the lip is slowly swelling up again. I noticed it on Monday. It just looked like a little pimple under her bottom lip, but I knew what that was going to lead to so started her back on the anti-biotics I still had left from her spaying two weeks ago (same type as the vet has given me for the other Eosinophilic flare ups). When I've taken her in for this in the past the vet has given her a steroid shot and then it's two weeks of anti-biotics twice a day. So far just the anitbiotics haven't seemed to have had any impact as the bump is still growing larger. I'm really worried about the long term effects of giving her not just antibiotics so regularly, but, also, the steroid shots. To compound the problem this time, our vet is out of town til Monday and I'll have to take her in to see a vet who isn't familiar with her condition. If anyone has any advice about this condition, I'd really appreciate hearing it. Thank you.