Hi,
I have a litter of 4 puppies. They are 8 weeks old. I took them to the vet 2 weeks ago because i noticed they were getting bad dandruff, little bumps on them and were getting very itchy. They thought it might be the mange so They did 3 skin scrapings and found nothing. So they sent me home with a 10 day dose of clavamox(synulox).said it was just a skin infection.10 days later They are no better at all. They have little bums on them especially on their back and very flakey and itchey. They are not loosing hair anywhere though. The mother had to have a c-section when they were born and had to be put on antibiotics for quite awhile. Do you think because they could be having a reaction to all the antibiotics? My vet is no help at all. Please give me your opinion.

What are you feeding them,and mum?

They are no Nutrisource dog food. It is comparable to the eukenuba the pet store said.

it the eukenuba a friend of mine had two litter of goldern retrievers that same happen with them.took them off eukenuba and but them on either nutro or proplan puppy

Sounds like it might be sarcoptic mange or cheyletiella mite also known as 'walking dandruff'. Mange isn't always picked up in a skin scraping. Here's a link to some more info on both

http://www.marvistavet.com/html/sarcoptic_mange.html.

http://www.provet.co.uk/health/diseases/cheyletiella.htm

Depending on the breed Stronghold is used to treat both of these, so I would ask your vet about trying that. (It's toxic to certain breeds such as Collies.) We had a problem with itchy dogs and spent a fortune on frontline and various other flea treatments, not to mention consultation fees, but a course of Stronghold sorted it in the end. The vet didn't really identify what the problem was so they just tend to go for the most likely thing and said it was probably a flea allergy or something in the environment.