Essential oils and Your Dog's Ears

in #doghealth6 years ago


If your pooch struggles with ear infections, this may help you too!

Stella loves to swim plus a few food reactions can give her mild to sever ear irritations/infections. She will shake her head like crazy along with redness and tenderness in and around her ear- this is the tell tale sign.

Sometimes the ears will also have an odour. Not so with Stella but true for our late Chocolate Lab.

Before I panic and run to vet imagining the worst and then throw her on a bunch of medication, I consider a couple of things...

  1. Has she been fed by others recently?...meaning I don't have control of what's going into her belly. Eggs and meat cause tremendous reactions in her. Yes, even organic.
  2. Has she been swimming?

At the time of this video, both were true so we enter into level 1 of dog ear remedy/drama. That does mean we have a second level. Yup. Stay tuned for that video.

Recipe: Mix together 1 tbsp of coconut oil + 2 drops of tea tree oil + 2 drops of peppermint oil. *

Rub into ears, the peppermint oil will quickly soothe the irritation.

If like Stella, the pup also has an ear hematoma from shaking so much, follow the application with a wrapping of their head with the ears placed "naturally" - for Stella, that is ears forward. Pretty sure that's normal for all dogs but do your own observations. The wrap only needs to stay on for a couple of minutes until the soothing peppermint is in full swing.

I reapply once a day for a few days. If I don't see improvement by day 2-3, time to consider "level 2" or visit the vet.

The mix you make keeps at room temperature for a long time. It also works for humans....applied to a qtip.

*make sure to use a double tested reliable source for your essential oils. ALWAYS!


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