I don't usually put these things in the form of a post, but the comments don't seem to be working as they should on the Aural Hematoma post, so I am re-posting this lady's question, along with my answer. Hello Doc– I'm contacting you regarding my 7 year old golden retriever mix with very floppy […]
Category Archives: Ear Problems
Liz writes: We have a 100 pound American bull Dog. He has had a constant yeast infection in his ears for over one year. He flaps his ears so hard that the top of his head is bleeding from flopping his ears.He has been on Ciprofloxacin 500 MGM twice a day and this is not helping.To clean […]
I recently had an email from a reader who is fostering a dog with some pretty severe ear problems. The dog has had head-tilt and balance problems, as well as an obvious external ear canal infection. The situation isn't straightening out very fast, so she was looking for more information, She knows that her veterinarian […]
Last week we saw a lovely (if overlarge) cat named Baby. She didn’t look quite so bedraggled then. This picture was taken as she awakened after her ear-cleaning procedure today. It was Baby’s first visit to our hospital and I was unhappy to learn that she had been suffering from chronic ear infections "for years". […]
I put this under ear problems because today these nasty little seeds were an ear problem. Some people call them "wild oats" (not the kind you wish you had sown, either). They are the little grass seeds from grasses that look sort of like stalks of wheat. In our part of the country, these are […]
In the September 1, 1993 issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, a letter to the editor appeared, entitled "Of Mites and Man". This letter was submitted by Dr. Robert A. Lopez, and is (ostensibly) a description of the sensations he experienced after deliberately infecting himself with ear mites in 1968. According […]
You won’t ever see a dog or cat with an ear like this. [Click the picture for a better view] Now, the inside of their ear canal gets to looking like this mess, but on the outside they look pretty much okay. That is, until they scratch it raw. They’d love to stick something down […]
An aural hematoma is one of the most painful-looking conditions I know of. Aural means ear and hematoma means bloody swelling. The pinna is the floppy, outside part of the ear (as opposed to the ear canal, the tube going down and in to the ear-drum). The pinna is a 3-layer sandwich of skin, cartilage […]
Ear mites ARE my favorite ear problem. Why? FIrst, they are so cool to show people under the microscope. Unlike most other microscopic things (that just look like some variation of a blob), these guys are obviously bug-like and they move. I’ve got a little eyepiece camera that plugs into the USB port on the […]
If you love animals and have an interest in veterinary medicine, you have probably read James Herriott’s books (All Creatures Great and Small, etc.). [ If you haven’t read them, you will enjoy them, so go read them. Then you can finish reading this some other time.] In many ways, my first year in practice […]