>>I have a year old female chi.
>>We took her in to the vet a few weeks ago because she has started losing hair along her trunk, under her neck and on her joints. And she had a little spot on her face that was bladed and was rashing and scabbing. The Vet did a skin scrapping and found that it was demodex. My Chi has been on daily Ivormectin. (sp?)
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>>The little spot on her face seems better, it seems like it is slowly growig back hair. But her belly, neck and joints seem to be doing worse. It's not that she scratches herself alot, its that she shakes alot.
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>>Will the symptoms take a while to go away? Does Demodex take a while to kill?
>>Thanks in advance~
>>P.S. I do have an appt to take her into a different vet for a second opinion.
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Have your vet recheck her. If she's not spayed, plan with your vet on when that is going to be done. Going into heat would put her at risk of getting this again, pregnancy even more so, and she would pass it to her pups. But she can't be spayed until she is stable.
The symptoms do take time to go away, but infections are a common complication and it would be urgent to treat those promptly and completely. Be sure to have your vet check her whenever there is anything to show him/her, and ask if it would be a good idea for a veterinary dermatology to work on this, too. You've got a teeny girl there, very little wiggle room in what the illness (potentially very serious, even fatal) and the treatment could do to her (same thing--can kill). She needs close medical monitoring, including blood testing.
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Kathy Diamond Davis, author, "Therapy Dogs: Training Your Dog to Reach Others," 2nd edition, and the free Canine Behavior Series articles at http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=SRC&S=1&SourceID=47
