Question by scruffie: Please help! need to find sites on pet health and conditions?
My dog has a problem and I can’t seem to get help solving it. Have been in and out of vets. Recomended treatments do not help. Bloody stools not consistant with a virus nor colitis What else can it be? Food allergies? Ulcer? Any suggestions appreciated.

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Answer by highdle
Bloody stool usually indicates something is wrong with your pet. The most common causes are an overload of bacteria in their digestive system, intestinal parasites, a change in diet, or eating something bad. Your vet should have been able to diagnose the problem by doing a fresh fecal sample and a BEAH.

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Question by Jason J: Question about my dog’s skin conditions.?
My dog has been having a skin problem or a while now. She is an aging Shepard/Collie mix with thick hair.

She has two parts to this condition. The first is scaly, itchy skin on her stomach and back. She often chews at this, as it itches. We’ve taken her to the vet and they give her cortisone shots and that seems to help.

Secondly, she has lots of bumps that form all over her skin. These are in all different sizes and locations.These itch as well and she often chews at the ones she can reach. Once punctured these bumps produce a think, off white looking material as well as blood. The vet says these are subacious cysts filled with oils and residue from blocked hair folicles and goes so far as to encourage us to pop these cysts and drain the wax. This often hurts her though, and I don’t like doing that.

Does anyone know of a reason or condition that would causes symptoms like these? Is it possibly and infection, allergy to something? We’ve tried changing foods, constantly brushing her thick fur, bathing her with mild dog shampoos, and are at an end of things to try.

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Answer by aok0423
It sounds like your dog has an allergy to something. The most common allergy is food. Without taking her to a veterinary dermatologist for skin testing its impossible to be totally sure. The problem with changing foods is that the main ingredients in most commercially available food are the same. Speak to your veterinarian about an approved allergy diet. These special foods are formulated with ingredients that aren’t commonly in regular dog food (Venison and potato, Rabbit and potato) I think that Hill’s also makes a low allergen formula available commercially. Allergies will often cause other skin problems like the sebaceous cysts that you are talking about. You definitely what to drain these cysts even though it hurts her a little they are clogged and will continue to get bigger and more “infected” if you don’t. Shampoos and conditioners that have an oatmeal base are great for dogs with skin problems.

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Question by cupcake <3: Skin conditions found on dogs?
I have gone to the vet with my dog three times aready about the same thing. She keeps saying that it is nothing, even though it is obviously causing my dog discomfort. He has what appear to be scabs all over his body in various places. From what I can tell,he currently has three. The skin In these areas is almost flakin off, and taking the fur with it. he is constantly biting at these spots, or at least the areas he is able to reach. Periodically, the part of his right eye that I would assume o be similar to the human tearduct become inflamed and seems to swell. It almost looks like it is imparing his vision. And on top of that, he has little scabs all on the edges of his ears.I’ve been told that his could be sone sort of a fungal infection, but I was wondering if anyone had
other ideas as to what this could be.the vet said that this spears to be some sort of allergy, but he is not improving with the medications he has been perscribed.if anything, his skin condition appears to be getting conciserably worse.any ideas on what I could
suggest to the vet that this may be?

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Answer by Julie
Did the vet take skin scrapings to test for mites? This could be the problem or the dog may have an allergy to something such as grass or something in your house.

If you want to eliminate the scratching there is an ointment available at Wal Mart that is called Equate Anti ich cream. Its only a couple of bucks but really does the trick. There are also many types of medicates shampoos that work quite well.

You may want to try a different vet.

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My dog has been having a skin problem or a while now. She is an aging Shepard/Collie mix with thick hair.

She has two parts to this condition. The first is scaly, itchy skin on her stomach and back. She often chews at this, as it itches. We’ve taken her to the vet and they give her cortisone shots and that seems to help.

Secondly, she has lots of bumps that form all over her skin. These are in all different sizes and locations.These itch as well and she often chews at the ones she can reach. Once punctured these bumps produce a think, off white looking material as well as blood. The vet says these are subacious cysts filled with oils and residue from blocked hair folicles and goes so far as to encourage us to pop these cysts and drain the wax. This often hurts her though, and I don’t like doing that.

Does anyone know of a reason or condition that would causes symptoms like these? Is it possibly and infection, allergy to something? We’ve tried changing foods, constantly brushing her thick fur, bathing her with mild dog shampoos, and are at an end of things to try.