skin problem

[trevorwoolley]

we have a lhasa apso called henry, for about the last five years he has had a terrible skin complaint, his skin looks as though it is coated in mud and flakes off in clouds of dust, his coat is very thin and falls out all over the place. we have spent hundreds with vets and got nowhere, he has been castrated at the vets advice, no improvement, he has been on steroids, antibiotics, special shampoos, special allergy diets, nothing seems to work. our other lhasa, taz, is a female and has no problems. henry smells so bad, we are at our wits end with him. he has been on a diet containing aloe vera and plain yoghurt and has been bathed regularly in the same and for a while there seemed to be an improvement but now he is as bad as ever. a leading canine skin specialist told us it was an auto immune problem called pemphagus and for a while the treatment seemed to work, but again after several hundred pounds worth he was just as bad again. we are desperate for some help.