Vet Basics Lime Sulfur Dip – Skin Itch Relief Concentrated Antimicrobial & An...

I’ll update this weekly for the next 6 weeks. Some background: I have an Aussie mix. For the last year she has been to the vet every 10 days. Multiple scrapings, never found mange. She has been constantly on antibiotics, antifungals, anti yeast pills, Creams, shampoos, wipes, sprays, homemade and prescription. Some made it worse, some worked for about a month. After being more than $3,000 in and watching her struggle and just be miserable. I was very much considering that maybe this was the end even though she’s so young as I couldn’t force her to live so uncomfortably (she would whine because she was so miserable constantly!) Her tummy, sides, paws, back legs, and ears were raw, hairless and red. Week 1.) It’s been just 6 hours and so far the redness on my dogs sides, belly, and in between her toes has lessened. Her swollen toes have gone down as well. She is much more comfortable it seems. The smell is strong, however it goes away 98% within 2 hrs. I used a cleaner milk gallon jug, filled it with water, added 4 tablespoons in (outside), hosed her down and washed her with a medicated shampoo then while she was still wet shook up the gallon jug and poured it all over her and used an old rag to rub it in. I then put a donut collar on her and let her stay outside for 4 hours (no rinsing the product off). I had some left over and poured it all over the porch (where she lays) and on the bottom part of her crate (where she sleeps at night). I let those just sit for about 30 min in the sun then dumped it off and let it air dry. Then washed all of her bedding on hot with a vinegar & essential oil solution (1:1 water & vinegar with 10 droppers peppermint oil) All this happened at 3pm, it’s now 9:15pm and she for the first time is resting comfortably with no whining and very very minimal licking / scratching (maybe a total of 90 accumulative seconds since the “bath”. Before she’d be scratching for 5-10 min every hour.) Her next one will be on 9/30/19 (going for a full 6 weeks) and I’ll come back and update then. Week 2.) This time I went with the recommended dosage instead of a more diluted one since I felt comfortable enough that it wouldn’t cause a reaction. 4 oz in a gallon milk jug, washed her before hand with an anti fungal and anti bacterial shampoo then immediately followed it with the lime sulfur dip. The hair on her abdomen has begun growing back, as well as on her sides. There is no more redness on her abdomen any more! There is still redness between her toes unfortunately BUT they’re no longer swollen at all! Trace amounts of redness can be found on her sides, however 75-80% has cleared! I have also been using the remainder of the mixture to soak her plastic crate bottom in and laundering her bedding in hot water with a vinegar and peppermint oil solution. Will update again for week 3. (Doing 5-6 treatments total) Also, the smell this time around wasn’t as potent, I suppose that’s due to just getting used to it / seeing the benefits my dog is having so I’m just too happy to care. Week 3.) I just learned to make this MOST effective you need to wash the dog with a benzoyl wash before dipping. I’ve been washing her before but haven’t been using a benzoyl wash. Will buy and use that in conjunction with this for the next 3 washes I have left. Anyways, one side of my dog is having very steady hair re-growth, no more discoloration. The other side is lagging behind, has hair regrowth but still has a couple red spots however the entire area is not red or pink anymore just a few straggler spots. Her toes are doing better (still pink inbetween), her ears are doing much better (no more pink), her belly is 95% better.

I never write product reviews, but I am writing this to hopefully help someone else. This stuff is amazing. Hands down. If your cat has ringworm, you need to purchase this and use it. Yes, it stinks. Yes, it stains. Yes, it is wildly time-consuming and inconvenient, but this is the only thing that will absolutely 100% get rid of persistent ringworm. After adopting our kitten, his ringworm (which we were told had been treated and cured. Yeah right) absolutely exploded. We did everything we were supposed to do. Vet visit, isolation, lotrimin, oral itrafungol, anti-fungal shampoo… The only thing I wasn’t doing was THIS. Despite our vet recommending it, I put it off because I was intimidated by the smell and staining issues, and thought I could handle ringworm with other methods. Boy, I wish I had started earlier... Only when I started using this stuff did it turn around. And boy, it turned around FAST. Our kitten was battling ringworm for 6 weeks, and after introducing this, it was gone in 1. First of all, I want to explain how ringworm works. This will help you understand why this stuff is so important. Ringworm is caused by fungal spores. The fungal spores attach to the cat’s hair shaft and feed on dead skin. Anywhere your cat sheds hair is a potential source of contamination. A single spore can turn back into a raging case of ringworm if you do not absolutely destroy it. Lime sulfur dip has the power to penetrate and saturate the outer layer of the hair, reach the hair shaft, and do exactly that. This is what I recommend: Isolate your cat. This is a MUST. You will feel guilty, but it is medically necessary. You can still play with them while wearing long sleeves and gloves! The second the ringworm spreads to your other cats, kids, or you, you are in for it. If you DO get ringworm, don’t panic. There is an oral medication you can get at urgent care, and lotrimin is available at Walgreens. Humans are easier to treat than animals. Just remember to stay vigilant. Take them to the vet and get them going on Itrafungol oral solution. This is how you will fight the ringworm from the inside. Purchase a quart-sized spray bottle you plan to never use again, Sanicloth wipes, and a Wood’s black light. Dilute the lime sulfur dip - according to the directions - in the spray bottle. Designate an outfit you also never plan to use again. Every three days, put on that outfit and use the spray bottle to saturate your cat’s ringworm spots. I recommend the spray bottle because your cat will NEVER let you dip them. My cat was horrified of the bath, but didn’t bat an eye at the spray bottle. It’s much faster, easier, and less stressful. You can use lotrimin on your cat’s spots any days you are not doing lime sulfur, or you can choose not to. I didn’t, and it worked fine. I might recommend it just for the paw pads, though. Place the cat in a carrier after spraying their spots and sanitize the entire isolation room. I’m talking vacuum and wipe everything down with Sanicloth wipes EVERY. DAY. It’s going to take up your entire life for a little while, but it will work much quicker than if you do not do this. Routinely check your cat’s ringworm spots with the Wood’s lamp. Ringworm glows green. Even when you don’t see green anymore, keep up with the lime sulfur until all of the hair grows back. A single spore can set you back to square one, so you must ERRADICATE it. Any towels, rags, or clothing you use must be washed on the extra hot setting on your washing machine. There are some warnings about skin problems, but this did NOT irritate my cat’s skin at all! This stuff is the best. Our vet recommends it. I recommend it. I was hopeless until I used it. DO IT!

This immediately improved my cats ringworm. A combination of this and oral terbinafine pills from the vets made a drastic change in their infection. I was originally treating my one cat with miconazole cream & terbinafine pills but he wasn't showing any improvement. When I saw my other cat get a patch on her toe I knew I needed to step up my game. This made a much bigger difference. The application - I applied it while the cat sat in my shower with the door closed inside of a clean litter box (I have one they never used). This collected the liquid that came off of them and contained the mess & allowed me to reuse it. It also got the bottom of their paws on it, which was an infected area. This helped a lot. If I were to do it on them full body again I think a spray bottle would be a good applicator. For applying around their eyes I recommend using a cheap tooth brush. My cat has it surrounding one eye completely and this is how I applied. I made sure to avoid his mucus membranes, but at the same time I had to get it close as that's where his infection is the worst. I then put cones on them and gave them both churu. After the light towel drying so they aren't dripping they should be allowed to air dry for several hours before they groom. After applying I immediately ran the shower on hot for a while to thoroughly wash away the lime sulfur solution. Some smell lingered and I've tried cleaning with a vinegar solution, which worked OK, but there may be better cleaning products. After my cats dried they needed significant brushing. A very large amount of hair came out, which is normal after bathing. There was also some hair loss & dry skin on one of my cats ears as I accidentally made the solution a bit too strong the first bath. This healed over a few days, though. I did go longer between treatments to wait for him to heal, but the first bath alone nuked basically all of his ringworm and he didn't have any patches glowing under black light for 1.5 weeks after and significant hair grew back in that time. He now has a very tiny glow above his eye still, which I am spot treating every 3/4 days. I also treat his forearm that he rubs that area with during grooming as ringworm previously transferred there. My other cat needed 2 treatments + terbinafine to have her minor ringworm symptoms go away. My recommendation I haven't seen elsewhere - if you get significant amounts of this on any clothes or towels just throw them out. I ran mine through the wash AND dryer. This made the washer and dryer require heavy cleaning and the smell got on other clothes / my blanket which I ran through after. I STRONGLY encourage you not to do this. I'd say either use old towels or buy the cheapest towels you can find.

My dog has been having an ongoing battle with some type of mites. It got to the point where anyone he was laying next to/on was getting bit up & we couldn’t get rid of them for the life of us. We decided to try this product based off Amazon reviews & I’m happy we did. It makes my house & dog smell like fart, but works lol. When he gets this treatment he has no skin irritation or reactions. He gets a good shampoo first, then while still wet this gets applied, then rinsed. By the end of it he has a faint fart smell but nothing horrible, & let’s be honest dogs usually smell like fart anyways. It is easy to use & rinse off, we haven’t had any issues with this product transferring onto household items. When used as directed it has significantly helped my dogs mites & I would recommend trying this if you’re having similar problems.

Why did you pick this product vs others?: Saves the hassle of trying various products that claim easier or cleaner than this. It smells, the whole process is terrible for you and the animal PLUS you still have to do due diligence and treat the house, bedding, yard and repeat the whole thing in a few days to cover the life cycle or any time delay that could have missed a few here and there. Your pet and family will be better if you strictly follow a proven plan. And yes sometimes your individual circumstances or situation may create more complex or additional treatment if you can’t contain, or don’t have help, or tolerance/resistance has been a problem. Some treatment works only on specific applications or has dangerous side effects that limit its use, but I can tell you think worked for killing fleas on my cat. I had to repeat it a few times because he is a cat and doesn’t listen when I explain not to lick his paws (after treatment or exiting the litter box} and not to wander off in the garage or front patio where treatment is in process). Hiring a professional is great if you can afford it but only has its limitations if it’s not covering every aspect of how it can continue or how it can be reintroduced. The money pit will continually return. So take a few days off and get some assistance to tackle this in one big swoop. Smell like an egg in private and throw away everything that can potentially inhibit your progress ( trust me if you think you have enough paper towels and buy-in from family or friends, it’s probably not enough so get a few extra and have a emergency back up supply). If you don’t have a commercial laundry facility in house then you won’t be able to tackle a large project like this without paper towels and clothing you are specifically going to treat like hazmat - or any other contact surface or defined separation of areas treated and untreated to prevent tracking or spreading even if seemingly insignificant or overly cautious. You can’t be too careful and most peo0e going through this will have long battles where this comes back to haunt you. If you don’t see any dint assume it’s not there. Take shoes off and wash hands even if gloves are on and if you enter an area assume you or it is contaminated unless you control that. It’s often one flea that hitch hikes in that started the whole mess.

Yes, it is malodorous, but not as bad as I was expecting. It has the classic eggy sulfur scent but it doesn't smell rotten. My dog has Skin Issues. Whenever I think they're clearing up, they flare up again. I have excellent doggie shampoo, but thought I'd try a stronger item like this sulfur lime dip. (Mineral lime, not fruit lime.) I make it up in a 1.5 liter juice bottle. I've drilled 3 small holes in the cap and use it to squirt the diluted mix over my dog, which works fine. I dilute as directed - 4oz/gal means it goes a long way. It seems to be helping keep the "old dog warts" at bay. (I'm not convinced they're inevitable as some seem to come and go and this helps them go.) The spots of who-knows-what that have been creeping around my dog are retreating. I'm not yet brave enough to let the dip stay on my dog. So far I douse him and brush it through and rinse, because of the odor but may try longer term application if it helps his bad spots more. He's been dosed twice over 2 weeks and there is improvement over just using the shampoo. I've also used it as a foot soak which helps me get callouses off my heels (which also get scraped/scrubbed off) and they seem to be staying gone longer. I also used some on the landscaping to control powdery mildew, which worked. But I didn't rinse it off before a heat wave and the residue did some cosmetic damage that does not bother me. I tried it in a spray bottle, but flaky crusts precipitate out and clog the nozzle if I let it sit for a couple days. The directions say to reheat it in a warm water bath to reabsorb the (presumably lime) flakes. I will try this on my little sprayer but haven't yet. Lastly, I've added a few squirts of diluted mix to the prewash when washing dog towels and bedding. The odor can stick around - mildly noticeable but there - but seems to clear out of the machine fine. I'm using it as insurance to prevent the skin issues from sticking around. It *feels* like it works. My feet are doing better and the dog seems to get stinky less quickly. The plant mildew seems largely remediated.

Easy to use and cleared the fungus up fast.

Received without a lid. It is sealed with aluminum/plastic. Product is not leaking but I will have to find a lid that fits or transfer to another container.