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That was the vet's best answer, after years of treating "allergies."Her family ordered anyway, and the camera date-stamped every step back.
“If anyone saw her, they were shocked at her appearance. She looked as if she had been thrown from a car.”
Blizzard was a healthy 90-pound white German Shepherd, five years old, when her health began declining dramatically. Her skin turned itchy and inflamed and she chewed and bit at herself constantly. She lost hair over most of her body, down to bare skin. Her skin carried a bad odor and blackened badly in places. She slept poorly, kept to the dark corners of the house, and stopped going out into the sunlight. Eventually she had lost 30 pounds.
Her family took her to numerous vets and dermatologists. No one could say what was actually wrong. After rounds of antibiotics and anti-inflammatories, the best answer anyone offered was five Benadryl a day. And then the vet said the words her family never forgot: "her time was up."
The day the Nzymes box arrived. Her family labeled the photo themselves.
Stamped by the camera. "If anyone saw her they were shocked at her appearance."
In the middle of August 2002, Blizzard's owner saw a local TV commercial about Nzymes and thought, "maybe this could have helped Blizzard." The ad ran three more times that week. She decided to call and order anyway: it certainly couldn't hurt, and it cost less than another vet visit or another round of shampoos.
The Nzymes team read Blizzard's situation as a combination of poor immune system health and yeast overgrowth in the GI tract, and suggested starting with just two parts of the Healthy-Skin Kit (now called the Skin Rescue Bundle), plus a diet switch away from starchy carbohydrates, treats included.
Within the first week, Blizzard's biting and chewing eased. The itching calmed, and the redness began to fade. Then, around the second week of September, she went through what the Nzymes team had described in advance: a deep detox, with the itchiness and redness flaring back up and some days when she honestly looked worse.
Her family called the office. The first question back: are you spraying her problem areas with the 2% Ox-E Drops solution, two to three times a day? They hadn't been. They started that day, "and began to get very good results."
"Very lethargic, but inflammation and itching begin to subside."
Sometimes she looked worse in the first month. They'd been told to expect it.
By October 2, six weeks after the box arrived, the redness over most of her body was completely gone and her fur was growing back in beautifully. By late November the constant biting, chewing, and scratching had stopped. Blizzard was running and playing again, back up to 75 pounds of the 30 she had lost.
Her family's note on the November photo: "Itchiness is gone. Most hair re-grown. Energy and playfulness returned." And on December 8: "one big happy puppy." In her owner's words: "I am so glad that we did not put her down as we were advised."
Six weeks in: the redness gone, the fur coming back.
"Itchiness is gone. Most hair re-grown. Energy and playfulness returned."
Good food, a little knowledge, and common sense truly saved Blizzard's life.
In mid-July 2003, when the California heat arrived, some redness and itching returned, exactly as the Nzymes team had predicted the summer before. By then two new products were ready: Bac-Pak Plus and Tincture of Black Leaf joined Blizzard's routine, and within about five days the flare was fading. Her family's update, August 20, 2003: a happy dog once again.
The same small family team that answers the itchy-dog call every day is a phone call away. Tell us what's going on with your dog's skin, what you've already tried, and how long it's been. We were built for the calls nobody else takes.
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Blizzard started on the original Healthy-Skin Kit (now called the Skin Rescue Bundle). The two products developed during her story, Bac-Pak Plus and Black Leaf, have been part of it ever since. Today it all comes as one Skin Rescue Bundle: six products that rebuild from within and calm the outside, with the interactive guide and support included.
Blizzard's timestamps read 2002, nearly a quarter century ago. The same family, the same free customer care, and the same 120-Day Worry-Free Guarantee are still here today.
