reoccurring hot spot's on 9 month old GSD - Page 2

Thank you all. I am going to feed just the raw and see if it help's.

Make sure your raw is the 'proper' raw diet. Just feeding meat scraps is not enough. You need to include, organ and bone also. If your not sure how to do this, there are several commercial raw frozen diets available out there. The one I use is Oma's Pride. Try one of them out for a month or two. If you dont see an improvement in the skin, you may want to test for allergies. This can be done with a very simple blood test. You have your results in about 10 days, and you dont play the guessing game with the vet.
Good luck

Thank you everyone!!

When feeding raw be sure to get meat that is not injected with anything. You should be safe using meat straight from the butcher. I have one female here who will get hot spots if she even looks at meat that has been injected with broth, etc. Also had a female that was allergic to chicken.

I would supplement with human grade omega oils(4000mg Salmon gelcaps), vitamin E(400ui gelcap) vitamin C(2000mg, starting at 500mg and working up to 2000 in a weeks duration) daily, the oil  and C  dosages split between meals.  I'd also give a B complex 3x's a week.  This is what I do for my rawfed(not commercial packed) dogs and my longcoat has never gotten hotspots.  My old senior long coated border/goldenx use to suffer with them until I switched her to raw and added the above supplements. 
For hot spot treatment  I used diluted(brown) listerine dabbed at the site, clipping the coat around it and then applying gold bond medicated powder will help.  If it is extreme, then shaving the coat and prednisone is the last resort option...