This is the exciting message we received:
What a surprise; the hair has grown back in after one month of taking Pinfenon!
We have received a message of appreciation from the owner of a cute Shiba Inu that has suffered from skin disease ever since he was two months old.
This is a good example of great success using Pinfenon! The owner was giving it to her dog without telling the vet. How fine it would be if every pet turned out this way!
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Five-month-old male Shiba Inu, 11.4 kg
●Message of July 6, 2006, telling of problem
This three-month-old male Shiba Inu, weighing 7 kg, began at two months of age to have itching on his face and neck, and then began losing hair.
Reddening of the skin, thinning fur, and itching are confined to the part of his body from the chest to the abdomen (and also the anal area).
The skin on his neck has not changed color, but there has been some hair loss where it itches.
His face is the worst, and where the hair has fallen out, his skin is blackish.
He had his first medical examination when he was 80 days old.
As there was a suspicion that the trouble was due to a food allergy, I stopped giving him the milk meant for puppies, and egg ball snacks.
I was told to keep giving him his usual dog food and see how he was in 10 days, but several days later his usual food was finished, and on the recommendation of the pet shop, I switched to a lamb and rice food of the same brand.
The redness of his abdomen was gone by the next day.
One week later, he had a second examination.
Although the vet said I shouldn't have changed the dog food without consultation,
since the redness was better, he/she said I should keep on doing what I was doing. However, though my dog is not itching as badly as before, there are still some itchy spots on his head and neck.
He is now three months old, and since the first of this month, I have been leaving him outdoors.
The next two days, a pimple-like rash developed around his private parts, where the hair had not yet come in.
Two days after that, he also got a rash on the parts of his face where the hair had fallen out.
There does not seem to have been any worsening of the itching along with these rashes, but because his face looks awful, I have decided to move up the physical exam that was scheduled for the 10th and take him to the vet tomorrow.
I should also mention that his dog food is Diet Pro, Puppy (lamb & rice).
●Message of August 31, 2006
From the time he was two months old, he had hair loss and itching from his face and chest to his abdomen and around the anus. I thought it might be due to an allergy and changed his food. Then the vet told me not to feed him anything else, but I secretly began giving him Pinfenon; and the itching and hair loss seemed to stop right before my eyes. In about a month, all his hair came back in again!
The vet is under the impression that all I have done is change the food, so he/she was greatly surprised and exclaimed, "It got so much better just from changing his food?"
Still, I did give him some snacks without thinking, and when I gave him one Pinfenon pill a day, he had some hair loss on his face, so now I am only giving him the dog food and Pinfenon, as I used to. The Pinfenon is about to run out, so I am sending this order in haste.
It appears that Lucky just can't do without Pinfenon.