Dog ear infection

Allergy, injury, nervous habit. What does your Vet say?

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Amoxicillin is an antibiotic, but not one for ear infections.

To treat an infection you need to administer drops inside the ear canal.
Unfortunately there isn't any over the counter products you can use, you will need to get them directly from your vet.
Your vet will most likely take a swab of the ear an examine under a microscope to check for mites.

Another possibility is allergies.

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She might have fleas no offense. You should see her vet.

Floppy eared dogs are more prone to certain infections cause by moist, warm environments (e.g., yeast infections). There are several at-home remedies people try-and some work in some instances.

Without knowing the nature of the infection/allergy, I'm hesitant to recommend anything you could try at home. I suggest that, if you haven't already, you go to the vet to have the pup's ears looked at.

Let us know what your vet said/says.

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Ear infections can be tricky to cure. You'll have to see your vet on this one. Specific types of infections need specific types of antibiotics. Amoxi isn't a good medicine for ear problems.

What you can do to help is to clean her ear out. Get an ear cleaner made for dogs. Moisten a cotton ball and try and get as deep as you can. You can't hurt her because you cannot reach her ear drum itself. Don't put the solution directly into the ear like a levage just in case there is a problem with the ear drum itself. But the key to helping ear infections on top of antibiotics is keeping the ear extra clean. During treatment, the ear will drain. Chunks of wax will appear and you need to clean it out before the wax builds and creates a bigger ear infection.

Same rules apply for yeasty ears. The vet will have to find a mixture that will kill the yeast buds.

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I'm wondering where the medication came from - that's why I asked about the Vet. Is this medication "left over" from something else or was it prescribed for this particular dog?

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leftover, i'm in a really bad spot right now and just can't come up with the extra money right now to c a vet

Nope, no fleas. I'm very allergic, I would definitely know

anything i can do wothout a costly vet visit, i'm in a bad spot at the moment