![]() This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by Dori. Hope it was the Furminator….so much easier a fix than anything else. Just keep putting whatever oils you use on the areas until you see he no longer bothers with the spots and the fur starts growing back. One teeny little area on their bodies bother them and they will just not leave it alone. Those things can be pretty wicked if not used gently and with caution. That will keep some of the fur off him and home on a regular basis. You’re better off going over Bruno’s body once only and then you can do the entire process once a week or every two weeks or monthly. You’re better off not going over the same areas. You don’t actually have to be able to see the irritation and it didn’t actually have to be that you would have seen his skin red. You could have scratched him without knowing it and it just bothered him a bit for a while. Just be careful when using it and go slowly and gently. Sounds like it was the fulminator Naturella. I’m a holistic veterinarian in Bloomington, IN and food/skin issues are one of my obsessions! Best of luck to you. Hope that makes sense… I have some articles on my blog about food, allergies, and skin if you’d like to check it out: Steroids and antibiotics may suppress symptoms for a while, but the problem is still there! Symptoms are the body’s way of telling us there is a problem and we want to address the problem, not just suppress the symptom. Avoid strong meds unless it is a real emergency. I’ve had some good success with concentrating on optimizing gi function, feeding whole foods, using acupuncture and herbs. Skin problems are one of the most common presenting complaints in the patients I see. Causes for itchy skin can include: inahalant or food allergy, food sensitivity, gastrointestinal imbalance, external parasites, or less commonly autoimmune disease, liver disease, etc. Skin issues can be so frustrating! If he’s chewing the skin, it’s most likely itchy. ![]() When he had the scrotum spots, I did see one flea on him, and there may have been more, but so far I haven’t seen any on him around the leg spot… But there MAY be some? The oil treatment helped last time, and I will try it again I guess, and if he gets another itchy spot, I will ask a vet. But the spot was there before, I saw it yesterday actually.Īs far as seasonal or environmental allergies, it may be that, not sure. Today we began introducing Castor & Pollux Ultramix GF with Duck, Turkey, Lamb, and Salmon meals. Until today he was on Back to Basics Open Range with usual THK and BDN toppers, plus fresh food toppers. Other than that, no change in his normal food routine. ![]() I just looked them up actually, and they look nothing like Bruno has – in fact they look like something Snowy has, on both her sides of the thighs, red, irritated, almost raw, skin, on the fold between the legs and the torso, and hers clear up very well with coconut oil, but her family is not very consistent with it and they come back.Īs for foods, we started transitioning today, so it can’t be from that. ![]() And it literally looks like clear, healthy skin – is that what hot spots look like? I don’t know much about them. He gets his monthly Sentinel on time, which should control any flea populations by killing the eggs… Do I need to get some Cedarcide and spray him just in case? I wouldn’t use any chemical-based anti-flea topical even if he had fleas.ĭog_Obsessed, he usually stops chewing on it when oils are on it. He was also recently brushed with the Furminator and bathed, I saw no fleas. I can use said oils again and it will probably heal (although it doesn’t seem irritated at all, just “shaved” by Bruno himself, and regrow the hair (I think my oils make it light-brown, almost crimson-ish when it grows back though! That’s the color of the hair on the scrotum spots at least).).ĭoes any of you have an idea what may be causing it? And just in his hiney area, by the scrotum and only on one leg… He doesn’t seem irritated anywhere else, I also don’t know if it would be a food allergy. I used Eucalyptus essential oil first and my own blend of other nourishing oils (coconut, olive, shea, chamomile, vitamin E oil, a tad baby oil, a tad castor oil, and some drops of essential oils – no tea tree) and that spot healed up and grew hair back and he stopped biting at it, but now he’s at the new one. Right behind that spot, on both sides of his scrotum (?) I guess. He had done it in another spot before, on his, um… where his testicles used to be. He vigorously itches that spot with his mouth, apparently “shaving” the hairs off in the process or something. So, Bruno has caused himself a relatively large (about the size of 2 quarters next to each other, which is large-ish for him) “bald spot” on his rear hind leg. ![]()
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