I have a 6 year old M/N Labrador with chronic skin issues. This started as dermatitis with MRSA at @1yr at adoption. He cleared up well with antibiotics, homemade diet and herbs. After 3years, he started up again with pruritus being main complaint, with secondary traumatic dermatitis. He started forming nodular lesions last summer. Neither cytopoint, pred, nor apoquel seemed to have much effect. I put him on Xiao Chai Hu Tang and Si Wu Tang in November, and the pruritus improved quite a bit. He had another drug resistant culture in December, and RDVM biopsied and found histiocystic sarcoma. They saw the oncologist last week, who is sending out the sample to another lab as Willie had no liver or splenic involvement, and he was suspect that Willie would still be around 6 months in with this diagnosis.
So, he was started on Lomustine, pred, and supportive care. After 5 days, he was showing significant improvement, nodules are demonstrably smaller, etc. I will see him again in the next week.
The pattern will have changed with the chemo. Can I put him on herbs appropriate to the new pattern, or stick with ones for the pattern before chemo, and can I do this whilst on chemotherapy?
Thanks,
Lisa