Determining whether your dog’s ears are healthy by earwax

Inferred from earwax Whether the dog
Clean the ears

Dog's earwax It can be very straightforward to reflect the health of its ears. Color and smell are the two main criteria for inference. If the owner can clean the dog's ears regularly, then there will mostly be no problems with the dog's ears. However, if you do not pluck the dog's ear hair or clean the ears for a long time, once water enters the dog's ears, it will easily lead to ear inflammation and provide a favorable living environment for ear mites.

1. Dog earwax under normal circumstances

Under normal circumstances, a dog's ears are relatively clean, not much dirty, and the inside of the auricle is also relatively clean. If you take a look at your ears, there will be no obvious dirt on the cotton. Even if some yellow dirt is taken out, it is considered within the normal range. And there was nothing in the ears, and the useless ear hairs were all cleaned up.

2. Earwax of dogs with ear mites

Help your dog to pick out his ears. If you find black or reddish-brown dirt on the cotton, it may mean that your dog is infected with ear mites. However, this is not absolutely correct, and it still needs to be investigated to know. If we can find more obvious granular objects in the center of these dirt and emit a larger smell, then there is a high possibility that the dog’s ears have ear mites.

Using earwax to judge whether a dog
Don't use cotton swabs as ear picks

To determine whether there are ear mites, you must also observe the dog’s normal behavior and the presence of dirt.Several. If your dog scratches his ears frequently and there is a lot of dirt, he should go to the hospital for a microscope as soon as possible to see if there are ear mites. Then clean the dog's ears every day and then apply medicine.

3. Earwax in dogs with ear inflammation

Occasionally The red earwax in the ears may not be caused by ear mites, but may be caused by ear inflammation. In addition, when there is pus-like watery discharge in the dog's ears, first check whether there is any trauma. If no signs of trauma are found, it is mostly caused by inflammation.

The common cause of dog ear inflammation is that the ear hair is not cleaned for a long time, the ears are not cleaned, and then water enters the ears. In this case, clean the ear hair as soon as possible, and then clean the ears with ear cleaning water every day. Just take some ear medicine with anti-inflammatory effect.

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