[Blood of Tyrants]

Try 12.5 mg of Benadryl to relieve the itching and help with the allergic reaction. Repeat every 12 hrs. Call your vet, too.

[SkyDancer]

Ditto - always keep Benadryl in your first-aid kit. You do have one, don’t you? Especially products for pets.

[cva66snipe]

Try 12.5 mg of Benadryl to relieve the itching and help with the allergic reaction. Repeat every 12 hrs. Call your vet, too.

He gave her a shot of it this morning so I'm not sure how long the shot would last in her bloodstream. IOW I don't want to overdose her. At 10 pounds not much room for error. BTW I tried that last year on her with this and it didn't work. She shows vaccine reaction symptoms but the issue the doctors have is it waiting a week to happen. We do live in the woods and yea I thought about Poison Ivy etc. Vet last years said it was unlikely because of a Ratty's coarse fur.

[goat granny]

The weight of the dog is important in giving Benedryl. I was shocked when my vet put her on 75 mg, twice a day, but she didn't even get sleepy from it....I take 3 benedryl for sleeping and it works like a charm...(insomnia). But she quit licking her paws which the vet told me was the main observation on environmental allergies...her ear problem also eased up and didn't put out a lot of discharge. She did not have mites or anything in her ears. The medication the first vet put her on caused her deafness...was told that by the second vet and checked it on the Internet, yep, can cause deafness in about 20% of dogs that use it....I have nothing good to say about the first vet....