Hi - looks like secondary pyoderma to me - bacterial folliculitis. Bacterial infection in the dog is almost invariably secondary to an underlying cause (allergies in labs being very important, either as atopic disease or allergy to flea bites). Look very closely at the lesions you can see. Bacterial folliculitis will have a hair (may be tiny) coming out of the centre of the lesion. Flea bites won't. If it is bacterial then look around for an underlying allergy cause, try hibiscrub and if it doesn't clear up you'll need antibiotics. How old is Fudge? Juvenile impetigo looks like this and occurs at around the 6-9 month stage - they are worth treating aggressively with antibiotics for a variety of technical reasons I won't go in to now. Hope this helps.
Hi - looks like secondary pyoderma to me - bacterial folliculitis. Bacterial infection in the dog is almost invariably secondary to an underlying cause (allergies in labs being very important, either as atopic disease or allergy to flea bites). Look very closely at the lesions you can see. Bacterial folliculitis will have a hair (may be tiny) coming out of the centre of the lesion. Flea bites won't. If it is bacterial then look around for an underlying allergy cause, try hibiscrub and if it doesn't clear up you'll need antibiotics. How old is Fudge? Juvenile impetigo looks like this and occurs at around the 6-9 month stage - they are worth treating aggressively with antibiotics for a variety of technical reasons I won't go in to now. Hope this helps.
Hello, fudge is about 5 months now. She had marks before, shown below in the picture and i took her to the vets and the vet didnt seem to know what it was but came up with acne spots and gave fudge antibiotics for this, which it did clear up tho they were brown marks rather than red spots shown this time.
Hi - looks like secondary pyoderma to me - bacterial folliculitis. Bacterial infection in the dog is almost invariably secondary to an underlying cause (allergies in labs being very important, either as atopic disease or allergy to flea bites). Look very closely at the lesions you can see. Bacterial folliculitis will have a hair (may be tiny) coming out of the centre of the lesion. Flea bites won't. If it is bacterial then look around for an underlying allergy cause, try hibiscrub and if it doesn't clear up you'll need antibiotics. How old is Fudge? Juvenile impetigo looks like this and occurs at around the 6-9 month stage - they are worth treating aggressively with antibiotics for a variety of technical reasons I won't go in to now. Hope this helps.
Hello i got the hibiscrub today tho instructions arent the best.
My dog Ruby has had spots like that underneath her. She has also been scratching and has hair loss. After various courses of antibiotics and using malaseb shampoo we eventually went for allergy testing and have found out she has multiple allergies
Bess had similar red itch spots when she was around 8 months, i phoned her breeder (a very knowledgable chap who was great when i had any puppy questions) he suggested adding spinach to her food. He had no idea why or how it worked but said it was the first thing he tried in situations like we had.
So we added a small handfull of spinach to her food once a day, spots went away after a week or so, it may have been co-incidence or not but it might be worth a go.
When we got hibiscrub the vet just said to put some on a bit of cotton wool and wipe the affected area, no need to rinse off. I think we did it 2 or 3 times a day until it cleared up.
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