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Antibiotics, shots, a $500 allergist, a strict venison diet. The spots kept coming back, until her family stopped chasing them.
“They would appear so fast, and get as large as a quarter.”
Lola is a Bichon Frise from Schaumburg, Illinois, and her hot spots started almost as early as she did: at three months old. From then on they came about every month, fast and angry, growing to the size of a quarter. Her family tried it all. Vet visits. Antibiotics. Shots. An allergist, five hundred dollars, and a strict sweet-potato-and-venison diet. Then, more hot spots.
In February 2011, an acquaintance mentioned Nzymes. Sharene started the program alongside the allergist's diet, and after the food trial ended she switched Lola to a no-potato food and, in her words, went full force. If a hot spot is really a surface flare of something happening underneath, the fix had to work underneath too.
A year and a half later, in August 2012, Sharene wrote to tell us where things stood. Here's her letter.
“Hello, my dog Lola has had hot spots since she was about 3 months old. The re-occurrence of the spots were about every month. When she would get a hot spot they would appear so fast and get as large as a quarter. We had spent so much money at the vet getting antibiotics and or shots for her. She even went to an allergist who put her on a strict sweet potato and venison diet then we paid $500 again later more hot spots. I was getting so frustrated as well as my husband Steve, who treats Lola as his baby puppy.
An acquaintance of ours told us about Nzymes in February of 2011. I started using it along with the sweet potato diet she had been on from the allergist. After the food trial, I went in and got no potato dog food and went full force on Nzymes program.
It is now summer of 2012 and her hot spots, when she gets one, is about the size of a pencil eraser and lasts a day. I cleanse the area daily with the Nzymes Ox-E-Topical 2% solution (now called Ox-E Mineral Mist), and that is all I need to see an improvement.
Thank you so much for a wonderful product, our dog Lola is a very happy puppy and so are Steve and I.”
Shared with permission, lightly condensed.
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Eighteen months into the program, the monthly cycle was broken. When a spot did show up, it was eraser-sized, and one day of the topical cleanse saw it off. No more antibiotic rounds, no more monthly flares, no more watching a quarter-sized patch spread across a small white dog.
Hot spots are almost always tied to yeast overgrowth below the surface, which is why treating each spot as its own emergency never ends the cycle. Lola's family went after the cause, and the spots lost their supply line. Our hot spots guide walks through the whole thing.
Monthly hot spots have a rhythm, and breaking it starts with understanding what's driving them. Tell us what you're seeing, what you've already tried, and how long it's been. We were built for the calls nobody else takes.
The program Lola started in 2011 and the 2% topical her family mixed themselves are both still here. For dogs coming off repeated antibiotic and steroid rounds, the way Lola was, they now come inside the six-product Skin Rescue Bundle.
Lola's letter is from 2012. The same family, the same free customer care, and the same 120-Day Worry-Free Guarantee are still here today.
