calliecritturs
Posted : 6/4/2010 10:44:20 AM
No chance it could be environmental? dried mud or something from a puddle?
red typically means blood -- yeast SMELLS like yeast usually.
I'd probably use witch hazel rather than alcohol (that's gonna sting) --
A couple of thots -- you could do one of these or a couple - which ever is easy for you:
1. do you have an aloe plant?? That will dry the skin a bit (yeast thrives where it is moist) and will reduce any inflammation (do you know how to harvest the goo out of the leaves?)
2. do you have any chamomile? (as in tea?) -- brew it strong and let it cool -- it's an anti-inflammatory and will reduce redness. it's also mildly antiseptic. If you have any tea tree oil, add 5-10 drops and shake it up, and swish his feet in it and dry with an old washcloth. Tea tree will kill yeast (and yet in that small an amount diluted in other liquid it won't make him sick).
You can get tea tree at Wal-Mart -- it's on the aisle with the herbals usually on the BOTTOM shelf all the way at the end of the aisle)
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3. Selsun Blue (with the red cap) absolutely ROCKS for yeast -- dilute a squirt of it in a couple of cups of water and massage it in well and then RINSE very very well -- that will also reduce redness and kill anyyeast that may be present. Don't leave it on long tho -- it will tingle. But it's very healing