Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Why The Best Mange Home Remedy For Dog Mange Can Slow Hair Loss In Dogs

By Wendell Ruben

How The Best Mange Home Remedy For Dog Mange can help a dog is a short article that describes four home remedies for mange and reveals how these remedies fight mange. These home remedies owe their effectiveness to the power of science.

The latest dog to arrive at the dog kennel suffers from an uncomfortable skin disease referred to as mange. When the dog no longer can bear its suffering it turns its head, and bites into a patch of scaly skin. Up to this day, the dryness has not been reversed. What home style remedies are there to try? Do such remedies work? These are questions dog lovers wonder about.

Hydrogen Peroxide Mixed With Borax

One remedy, a hydrogen peroxide and borax solution, drills down into the skin, dries out then kills the parasite that causes mange. It kills the unseen cause of this skin disease. The peroxide seeps in, pulls in the borax and borax kills the parasite. The exact formula for this doggy dip is, well, inexact. But, between four and eight teaspoons of borax poured into one liter (or one quart) of hydrogen peroxide and stirred until the borax dissolves make a very nice doggy dip. Simply said, just pour some borax powder into a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and stir them together. And yes this is the same borax powder our great, great grandmothers used to wash their laundry clothes.

For safety, follow these rules. Do not drink this solution or splash it into the eyes of humans or dogs. Borax powder is slightly poisonous. Never use boric acid because boric acid is highly poisonous. Only use borax powder also called powdered borax. Only use hydrogen peroxide that is one percent concentrated. The percent concentration is written on the side of the bottle of hydrogen peroxide. Use water if one percent hydrogen peroxide cannot be found. The formula for the water solution is two or at most four cups of borax powder spilled out into one gallon (or four liters) of water. Stir the solution to make the borax powder melt.

Pour the borax solution onto the mangy area on the skin of the dog then let the area dry naturally. Treat the mangy area on a weekly basis over the course of one month.

Soap And Mange

Applying mild soapy water to the mangy skin of a dog provides some relief for mange. The formula for soapy water should contain only one cup of soap added to ninety nine cups of water. If the soap or dish washing liquid is ultra, concentrated or strong, then use less soap, use one half. If a person has no containers larger enough to hold all this water, then mix one tablespoon of soap with ninety nine tablespoons of water. The secret to making this soapy water remedy effective is to make the water less soapy not more soapy, and to not rinse the soap and water off the dog until five or ten minutes have elapsed. Soapy water gets rinsed off the dog, but the borax water does not get rinsed off. Soapy water kills by drowning insects that sit on skin.

Oil Remedy

This next best home remedy smears oil onto the skin and fur of dogs. As odd as it sounds, oil is thick and kills by depriving insects of the air they need to breathe. Oil in its many forms is just lying about the house. Oil is made from petroleum and from plants such as corn, soy, olives, and sunflowers. Butter contains animal oils. These oily products can smother small insects so that they die.

Clean Area Remedy

Some best remedies for the skin disease known as mange prevent parasites from hopping onto Barky the dog. Prevention calls for pet owners to scrub the sleeping area, bedding and toys the dog interacts with. Owners should also observe the behavior and appearance of Barky the dog. Too much scratching of the body or head could be a sign of mange. Too much chewing and licking at its backside could be a clue. A large grayish colored leathery patch of skin is a warning.

The Science Behind Home Remedies For Mange

These home remedies reduce mange to some degree because their application accomplishes three actions.

Kill parasites hiding from view.

Kill parasites walking in plain sight.

Block new parasites from infesting host.

Mites, a type of external parasite, create skin disease called mange. Most people know that fleas and ticks and mosquitoes are also external parasites. Mites hide under the epidermis. Borax kills mites under the skin. Soapy water kills mites on skin surface. Regular cleaning of a dog and its environment removes mites and prevent new infestations.

How the best mange home remedy for dog mange matches up with science is a short article that illustrates how four at home treatments align with scientific knowledge. Maybe this alignment accounts for the effectiveness of such low tech solutions for treating mange.

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