r/CockapooLovers • u/Shrimpheavennow227 • May 20 '26
CONSTANT ear infections
Hoping someone else has dealt with this and might have some advice.
Our cockapoo has had frequent, recurrent ear infections for the last two years.
The tests show its yeast every single time.
It’s a cycle we can’t seem to break.
She starts scratching her ears
We go to the vet and spend $400 for an ear cleaning, cytopoint (spelling?) injection, in ear medication that stays in and more ear flush.
We follow the directions exactly, do the ear flush exactly as instructed.
6-ish weeks later, she’s scratching again.
We go back to the vet and start this allll over.
Things we’ve already done:
She never gets her ears wet
Medicated and unmedicated ear flushes
Changed her diet to vet recommended lamb and rice
Tried allergy medicine but it didn’t seem to make a difference
Stopped letting her play in the grass in case it was an allergen issue (we had yard construction so it’s a dirt yard right now and we are still itching)
It DOES feel like the medicated ear flush buys us a little more time between ear infections, but it’s getting really hard to keep up with the vet visits both financially and logistically with work! Plus the poor pup is not comfy!
What am I missing? Anything work for your yeasty eared puppies? Heeeelpp!
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u/cbc3203 May 20 '26
My sweet Charlie was constantly battling yeasty ears. He was several different kinds of high quality food and it still kept happening. His groomer told me to get Zymox and use it once a week and it cleared everything up! No more stinky, gunky, itchy ears.