Updated On September 23rd, 2025
Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed | Male | neutered | 13 years and 6 months old | 21 lbs
my 13 year old minpoodle was given tri-otic for a bacteria in his ear. he went totally deaf.right away.what can i do besides a neuorologist
2 Answers
Published on July 21st, 2018
Poor Dusty! I'm sorry to hear that this happened. Unfortunately, deafness can rarely be seen as a side effect of ear medications that contain gentamicin, which Tri-Otic does. The best thing you can do is to stop using the medication immediately as soon as the hearing loss is noted. Hearing returns in some dogs with this problem, while in others the deafness is permanent. There is no treatment that has been shown to help, so all you can really do is wait and see.
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Published on November 4th, 2018
Deafness is a very rare side effect of some ear medications. Deafness can also, more commonly, be caused by repeat ear infections and hearing also naturally declines with age. So, it's hard to know exactly what's going on here. The good news, is that if it was related to the medication, rather than other causes, than the hearing may return over time. The bad news is there really isn't anything to do but wait. I hope Jac is back to normal soon.
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