It is wise to determine what kind of mange your pet has; demodectic mange or sarcoptic mange before you decide on a mange treatment. Another factor when deciding on a mange treatment depends on how severe your pets mange symptoms are. Beware… There are many mange home remedies on the internet, there are also traditional very toxic mange dips and oral medications such as ivermectin and there are also very effective topical non toxic mange treatments.

Finding a good Mange Treatment for Demodectic Mange and Sarcoptic Mange is basically a two step process. You treat the infection if it is present and your treatment should kill the mange mites that are causing your pet to itch and tear its skin. This can be a pretty daunting task if you don’t know how to accomplish this task easily and quickly.

Lets talk about a Mange Treatment for Demodectic Mange. Demodectic mange, sometimes also called Demo or Demodex mange most often includes infection. You can usually tell if your dog or cat has infection by just smelling your pet. If it has a septic smell, then it is most likely that your pet has infection. The skin is usually red and perhaps even raw.

A Mange Treatment that will stop the infection as quickly as possible is most often needed because if the infections gets too bad, it could get into your pets blood stream and your pet would then have to be treated orally with antibiotics. This plays a big part on why your pet is not running around and he is not happy.

Finding an effective Mange Treatment to kill the mites using non toxic topical products is also critical. You don’t have to make your pet sicker by applying toxic dips or giving him oral toxic medications such as ivermectin. These toxic products reduces your pets immune system even more. The mites are there doing damage in the first place because your pets immune system has already been compromised; that’s why it can’t fight back the mites. So why make it worse?

The reason that Demodectic Mange is much harder to treat than Sarcoptic Mange is because the mange mites are buried deep into the hair folicles while Sarcopitc Mange Mites burrow themselves just below the first few layers of skin. A mange treatment for Sarcoptic mange will usually last about 2 weeks, while treating mange for demodectic mange can last months.

You normally want to continue The Mange treatment several weeks after symptoms stop, the skin has healed and/or hair has started to grow back. It is also recommended that you give your pet vitamins to boost its immune system; this way he will be stronger to fight a future mange infestation.

It is always recommended that you keep your pet that is infested with mange mites to keep them isolated from the other pets. Wash its bedding daily and never allow your pet to sleep with you; or you’ll be scratching too! Mange mites are highly contagious to other pets and your family too.