Cooper has been prescribed so many medicines and supplements to treat his SLO: tetracycline, niacinimide, fish oil, vitamin E, biotin. Plus, on the advice of some other owners of dogs with SLO, I also give him super vitamin B complex and biotin. Now, the supplements won’t hurt him. In fact, lots of dog owners give [...]
Archive for the ‘Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy’ Category
Change in the SLO regimen
Posted in dog healthcare, Realta Rosario Cooper, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy, tagged doxycycline, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, SLO, SLO treatment, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy on November 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »
SLO check-in
Posted in dog healthcare, Realta Rosario Cooper, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy, tagged broken nails, dogs with broken nails, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, SLO, SLO treatment, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy on August 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Although it’s been awhile since I last wrote about Cooper’s SLO (symmetrical lupoid onychodystrophy), it’s never far from my mind. Three times a day, Cooper gets medicines. Every day, I’m always on the look-out for another broken nail, another session of determined toe-licking, or non-accident related limping. And awhile back, when Cooper’s coat began to [...]
Horrified fascination
Posted in Realta Rosario Cooper, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy, tagged broken nail, dog, dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, SLO, split nail, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy on March 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
You know how you can’t help yourself when something horrible is happening? You have to watch: car wrecks on the road, scenes of destruction, videos of natural disasters and violence. That’s how I felt last night. Last night, we noticed that Cooper had begun licking and chewing on one of his toes. That can mean [...]
4 weeks of no broken nails
Posted in dog healthcare, life with dog, Realta Rosario Cooper, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy, tagged dog, dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, SLO, SLO treatment, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy on December 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Since going back to the full regimen of medications for Cooper’s SLO, we’ve had no broken nails. That was on October 28 — more than a month ago. Funny. I just realized that I wrote, “we’ve had no broken nails.” Not exactly true, but that’s exactly how it feels. I know that Cooper is the [...]
abandoning our SLO experiment
Posted in dog healthcare, Realta Rosario Cooper, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy, tagged dog, dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, SLO treatment, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy on October 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Well, today we discovered a badly split nail. Looking back at our records, since starting our reduced-tetracycline-&-niacinimide experiment on Sept 15, I can see that Cooper has had 2 minor-ish splits and today’s 1 bad split. Prior to that, on the full dose of tetracyline-&-niacinimide, plus the herbs, we had 11 weeks of no split [...]
11 weeks of no broken nails, part 2
Posted in dog healthcare, life with dog, Realta Rosario Cooper, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy, tagged dog, dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, SLO, SLO treatment, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy on September 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The vet was just as pleased as we were with the improvement in Cooper’s nails, so after consulting with the veterinary dermatologist, she agreed with our wish to reduce the amount of tetracylcine that we’re giving Cooper. So now we have the same array of medicines, but just less of the tetracyline and the niacinimide: [...]
11 weeks of no broken nails
Posted in life with dog, Realta Rosario Cooper, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy, tagged dog, dogs, dogs with broken nails, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, SLO, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy on September 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Halleluhia! I just realized that it’s been about 11 weeks since Cooper broke a nail. Back on June 21st, three nails broke very badly, and we had to go to the vet to get them clipped and filed off. Since then, the surfaces of two nails have peeled back somewhat, but no nails have broken [...]
SLO nails don’t break, they explode
Posted in dog healthcare, life with dog, Realta Rosario Cooper, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy, tagged broken nails, dog, dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, SLO, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy on June 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
When I say that Cooper’s nails “break” because of his SLO (Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy), that’s really misleading. It might make you think, “Oh, a broken nail. No big deal. Happens to dogs all the time.” A much better way to describe it is “blow out” or “explode.” That’s what the nails really do. Picture a [...]
Surgery worse than the condition?
Posted in dog healthcare, life with dog, Realta Rosario Cooper, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy, tagged dog, dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, SLO, SLO treatment, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy on May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We got Cooper’s bandages off his feet, and hoped that all would be well. One of the two nails has healed up just fine, but sadly, he’s still limping. This morning, he finally let us look at his feet. We noticed that on the foot that makes him limp, the vet cut the whole nail [...]
More broken nails
Posted in dog healthcare, life with dog, Realta Rosario Cooper, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy, tagged dog, dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, SLO, SLO treatment, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy on May 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
When you have a dog with SLO, you expect that nails will break. For Cooper, mostly a nail splits and he chews it off. It’s uncomfortable for a couple of days, but he gets the nail off, the quick underneath dries out, and we go on. Last night though, when we got Cooper home from [...]
13 pills and some powder
Posted in dog healthcare, life with dog, Realta Rosario Cooper, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy, tagged dog, dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, SLO, SLO treatment, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy on February 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
That’s what Cooper gets every day to treat his SLO. My regular vet and dermatologist vet worked together to prescribe this regimin: Morning: 400 mg pentoxifylline, 3 salmon oil capsules (for 540 mg EPA and 360 mg DHA), and 400 UI vitamin E Afternoon: 500 mg tetracylcine, 500 mg niacinimide, and 2 salmon oil capsules [...]
Broken nails, broken hearts
Posted in dog healthcare, life with dog, Realta Rosario Cooper, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy, tagged dog, dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, SLO, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy on February 20, 2010 | 7 Comments »
After all these months of silence on the topic, I’m not sure what to say or how to start… How about with this: This afternoon, Russ took Cooper into the vet to have a piece of broken nail trimmed off. It turned out to be more than the vet tech wanted to handle, so the [...]
