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1. How many kinds of skin diseases are there in dogs? Answer: Common clinical skin diseases can be roughly divided into 16 types. Common skin diseases include parasitic skin diseases, pyoderma, dermatomycosis, allergic dermatitis, immunodeficiency skin diseases, nutritional skin diseases, etc. 2. What are the common parasitic skin diseases? Answer: Common parasitic skin diseases include: skin diseases caused by surface parasites such as fleas, lice, ticks, Demodex, scabies, and ear itch mites, hookworm larval dermatitis, and microfilariae of Dirofilaria immitis Dermatitis, etc. 3. What is the mite disease that people often talk about? Answer: According to the different pathogens and infection sites that cause the disease, it can be divided into: 1. Scabies, which is caused by the canine scabies mite of the genus Scabies in the family Sarcoptidae and the genus Dorsal anus in cats; 2. . Canine demodicosis is caused by the canine Demodex mite of the genus Demodex in the family Demodicidae; 3. Otoitchy mites, both dogs and cats are caused by the canine itch mite. 4. What is canine scabies? Answer: Canine scabies is a skin disease caused by canine scabies mites parasitizing in the skin of dogs. Can cause itching and hair loss in dogs. After mating, the female scabies mite burrows into the dog's epidermis and lays eggs in the hole. The eggs hatch into larvae; the larvae move to the epidermis, then burrow in the skin and become nymphs; the nymphs also burrow into the skin and dig tunnels . So the itching is severe. 5. How to diagnose canine scabies? Answer: Basis: 1. Clinical symptoms such as severe itching, erythema, papules, and nodules on the skin, no history of allergies, and no external parasites found; 2. Laboratory examination: use sterilized blunt surgery Use the knife at the junction of the diseased skin and healthy skin, and scrape the diseased material slightly away from the diseased skin. Make sure to scrape until there is a little blood. Place the scraped disease material on a glass slide, add 50% glycerol water or 10NaoH, and the diagnosis can be confirmed if the parasites are found under microscope. 6. How to treat a dog suffering from scabies? Answer: 1. Scrub the affected area with warm soapy water to remove dirt and scab; 2. Inject ivermectin 0.2mg/kgbw; 3. Apply acaricidal drugs externally; 4. Use antibiotics throughout the body for severe infection; short-term treatment may be required if the itching is severe. Time to give antipruritic medicine. 7. What is canine demodicosis? Answer: Canine demodicosis is a skin disease caused by Demodex mites parasitizing in the hair follicles and sebaceous glands of dogs. It is generally divided into two types, the desquamative type and the pustular type. The desquamative type mostly occurs on the skin of the head and limbs, often forming bald spots with hair loss, a large amount of bran-like dandruff, and mild itching. The pustular type often occurs in the neck, chest, lower abdomen, and inner thighs where the hair is sparse. Common are rice or bean-sized pustules with obvious itching and foul odor. 8. How to treat a dog suffering from demodicosis? Answer: 1. Inject Ivermectin 3-4 times, with an interval of 5-7 days between each time; 2. Dexamethasone can be used when itching is severe, but not more than 3 days. 3. Give antibiotics to treat bacterial infections and use topical acaricides. 4. Do not breed dogs suffering from this disease, as the disease is hereditary. The disease is easy to relapse, and protection needs to be strengthened after cure. Enhancing the dog's body resistance and changing the prescribed food will help to recover from the disease. 9. What is ear itch in dogs and cats? Answer: It is caused by the canine ear itch mite parasitizing in the ears of dogs and cats. The disease can be spread directly through contact and is highly contagious. Dogs and cats can spread it to each other. Most cats have ear mites. It is common for dogs and cats to scratch their ears, shake their heads, and have brown discharge from their outer ears. 10. How to treat ear mites? Answer: 1. Clear the secretions in the ear canal. 2. Use special miticide ear drops (such as Fukexin) in the ear, and use antibiotic ear oil drops at the same time. 11. What is dog flea disease? Answer: It is caused by the canine flea parasitizing on the surface of the dog's body. It is mostly parasitic on the lower back, tail root, rear abdomen and inside of the limbs of dogs. The bites suck blood and secrete toxins, causing severe itching, scratching, biting, dermatitis, and anemia in dogs. 12. How to prevent and treat flea disease? Answer: Prevention: 1. Regularly deworm dogs and cats; 2. Clean and disinfect the environment, keep it ventilated and dry; 3. Spray pesticides on the surrounding environment. Treatment: Many insecticides are effective, but all have some toxicity.

It is recommended to use Fu Ke Xin and Fulien, which are safe and have no toxic or side effects. 13. How to diagnose and treat tick infection in dogs? Answer: Ticks are also called grass ticks, dog lice, ticks, and fan lice. It is an external parasite of dogs. A large amount of parasitism can cause anemia, weight loss, dysplasia, etc.; parasitism on the hind limbs can cause paralysis of the hind limbs. It lives between the toes and can cause lameness. Ticks are very small before sucking blood, ranging from 1.9 to 6.2 mm in length depending on the type of parasitic tick. After sucking blood, they can grow several to dozens of times larger. Diagnosis is easier. Treatment: 1. For mild cases, you can apply Vaseline on the parasitic area to suffocate it, then pull it up vertically from the skin, and then apply iodine on the local area; 2. For severe cases, you can spray or apply Fukexin, Fulin and various insecticides , medicinal bath, etc. 14. What is seborrheic dermatitis? What are the symptoms? Answer: Due to abnormal keratinization of the skin, abnormal hypersecretion of cortical glands, and a large amount of dandruff produced between the skin coats, it is called seborrheic dermatitis. There are two types: dry and wet. Dry type, there are a lot of gray-white or silver dry scales in the coat, and the coat is sparse; wet type, the dander is oily and adheres to the coat, and there is a lot of oil or a lot of yellow-brown oil attached to the base of the tail, emitting a special putrid smell. 15. How to diagnose and treat seborrheic dermatitis? Answer: 1. Cleanse with 2.5% selenium sulfide locally, 2 times/week, for 2-3 weeks; 2. Systemic oral prednisone 0.2-2.5mg/kg body weight, oral vitamin B6; 3. Fasting fat content High foods, canned animal foods, fish. 16. What is dermatomycosis? Answer: Skin diseases caused by fungi that parasitize in the coat, epidermis, and keratin tissue of toes and claws of dogs and cats are collectively called dermatomycoses. Also called ringworm. 17. What are the characteristics of dermatomycosis? Answer: There are clearly demarcated round spots of hair loss on the skin, and a large amount of dandruff is produced at the same time. The lesions include hair breakage and hair loss; the itching is not obvious. It often occurs on the face, ears, toes, and trunk of dogs and cats. 18. What are the common causes of dermatophytosis in dogs and cats? Answer: 70% of the pathogens of canine mycosis are Microsporum canis, 20% are Microsporum gypsum, and 10% are Trichophyton mentagrophytes; 98% of the pathogens of cat mycosis are Microsporum canis, and the others account for 1 each. 19. How to diagnose dermatophytosis? Answer: 1. Clinical differential diagnosis, exclude other diseases; 2. Wood's lamp examination, use a Wood's lamp to illuminate the diseased hair, and the green-yellow fluorescence is Microsporum canis infection; 3. Laboratory examination: the diagnosis can be confirmed if the fungus is found . Method: Collect hair or dander from the edge of the diseased skin, place it on a slope slide, add a few drops of 10-20% potassium hydroxide solution, heat it slightly on a weak flame, wait until it becomes transparent, and cover it with a cover glass , observe with low magnification. 20. How to treat dermatophytosis? Answer: 1. Trim the hair of the affected area and apply antifungal ointment (clotrimazole, ketoconazole, Shufu, Zhenjing, etc.); 2. Take griseofulvin tablets and ketoconazole tablets orally; 3. Feed more fat while taking the medicine. Sexual food, milk and alkaline food should not be fed. 21. What is allergic skin disease? Answer: Dermatology is a skin disease in which animals are stimulated by internal and external factors, causing skin lesions. Common causative factors: mosquito bites, drugs (human-made drugs), chemicals in the environment (pollen, dust, etc.) and food. 22. How to treat allergic skin diseases? Answer: This type of skin disease is typically not difficult to treat. It can be improved by eliminating the cause and using anti-allergic drugs. But skin diseases generally occur in combination. Allergies are often ignored during diagnosis and treatment. Focusing on treating mites, dermatitis, etc., the result is incomplete recovery or frequent relapse. Such as some mite diseases, sick dogs that often shed dandruff, and hair loss. For this type of sick dogs, it is necessary to consider the problem of allergies and switch to hypoallergenic prescription foods. 23. What should we pay attention to when it comes to food allergic skin diseases? Answer: Some dogs are allergic to beef, mutton and other foods, so you must pay attention to the following two points when feeding them: 1. Do not feed any food that can cause allergies, and do not feed them any snacks; 2. Use special prescription foods. Otherwise, the skin disease cannot be cured. 24. What is pyoderma? Answer: Purulent skin disease caused by pyogenic bacteria infection.

Usually caused by Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Corynebacterium, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. Treatment: Enhance the body's resistance and apply systemic and local antibiotics. 25. What is the relationship between dog breeds and skin diseases? Answer: Affected by the dog’s physiological structure and genetic factors, clinical statistics have found that some breeds of dogs are susceptible to certain skin diseases. German shepherds, dachshunds, Pekingese dogs, Shar-Peis, and Maiden dogs are susceptible to Demodex; Irish wolfhounds and spurred hounds are susceptible to seborrheic dermatitis; Dalmatians are susceptible to scabies; Dachshunds, Lion dogs, pugs, etc. are susceptible to melanin epidermal hyperplasia. 26. Endoparasitic skin disease? Answer: There are mainly pruritic dermatitis caused by microfilariae of canine malignant filarial worms, and localized pruritic dermatitis caused by hookworm larvae penetrating the dog's claws. There is also tail biting disease caused by tapeworm segments expelled from the anus, irritating the anus and causing the dog to spin in circles and bite its tail. The fundamental method for this type of skin disease is deworming. Eliminate pathogens. 27. Interdigital dermatitis? Answer: It refers to bacterial infection that occurs when the hair follicles and sebaceous glands of the skin between the toes are blocked due to trauma, mite disease, etc. Common short-haired breeds of dogs such as dachshunds, pugs, bulldogs, etc. It is common for dogs to frequently add extra toes, with redness, swelling, pus, and bleeding between the toes. Severe fistulas form and are difficult to cure. Timely detection and timely treatment are more important. To remove the cause, systemic and local antibiotics are administered. 28. What is melanocyte epidermal hyperplasia? Answer: This disease is characterized by epidermal thickening, keratosis and abnormal pigmentation. It is most common in Dachshunds and Pug dogs. The cause may be pituitary-thyroid system dysfunction. The lesions are symmetrical on both sides, and the epidermis of the lesion is obviously thickened, hairless, and severely blackened. In severe cases, there are oily secretions, desquamation, and scabs. Treatment: Oral adrenocortical hormone 2 times/day; oral vitamin C 2 times/day; topical adrenocortical hormone ointment monthly. 29. Collie nose? Answer: This disease is also called rhinosurgery dermatitis, photoallergic dermatitis, etc. It is generally believed to be caused by skin allergies to ultraviolet rays from sunlight. Most commonly occurs in Collies. Skin lesions range from the bridge of the nose to the wings of the nose, eyelids, limbs, etc. The affected area begins to lose hair, redness, swelling, serous exudation, severe erosion, ulcers and bleeding. Treat the affected area by applying adrenocortical hormone ointment; use antibiotic ointment for secondary bacterial infection; cover the area locally. 30. Nose depigmentation? Answer: It is a pathological state of partial or complete depigmentation of melanin in the skin of the nose due to various reasons. The color of the nose is determined by the amount of melanin produced by melanocytes in the basal cell layer and the amount of melanin taken up by the stinging cells of the epidermis. Therefore, for depigmentation caused by trauma, the primary disease must be treated. When the damaged basal cell layer is repaired, the pigment will naturally recover. Total depigmentation of the entire nose may be related to hormone secretion. 31. Canine self-biting syndrome? Answer: This disease is characterized by the dog biting a certain part of the body (mostly the tail), causing skin damage. The cause of this disease is not entirely clear. It is generally believed that there are the following factors: nutritional deficiencies, ectoparasitic infections, and skin itching. Self-mutilating behavior in some nervous dogs or dogs that are often tethered. There is no specific therapy, mainly treating the primary disease. Surgery can also be done to cut off the main nerves in the tail to relieve itching. 32. What are the common diseases of skin itching? Answer: 1. Skin itching caused by ectoparasite bites or parasitism (scabies, demodex, lice, fleas, etc.); 2. Allergies to drugs, food, indoor dust, powder, etc.; 3. Vitamin deficiency, endocrine disorders, etc. 4 , simple dermatitis, eczema, etc. 33. What are the common diseases of increased dandruff? Answer: Dandruff is the product of shedding of cells on the surface of the skin. Common ones include: ○1 dermatophytosis; ○2 demodicosis; ○3 seborrheic dermatitis, etc. 34. What are the common hair loss diseases? Answer: Ectoparasitic diseases; dermatomycoses; follicular cysts; hypothyroidism; cortical hyperplasia.

35. Diseases related to immune deficiency? Answer: The diseases related to the skin of dogs and cats caused by immune deficiency are mainly: discoid lupus erythematosus, pemphigus foliaceus and other diseases, which are reflected in the form of skin diseases, with local skin swelling, loss of pigment, ulcers or scab formation. ; Current treatment methods are relatively limited and the curative effect is not ideal. It is recommended that dogs of this type should not be bred and eliminated. 36. What is pemphigus foliaceus? Answer: This disease is caused by the body's immune response to the interstitial material of its own epidermal cells and part of the epidermal cell wall. This disease is characterized by the sudden formation of blisters, which rupture and form scabs within a short period of time, and then take a chronic course. 37. Why do skin diseases in dogs and cats take so long to be cured? Answer: 1. Skin diseases are generally mixed infections, and the main reason for treatment is to treat only one type of infection. 2. The treatment of skin diseases is a long process and cannot be cured overnight. Another reason is the impatience with medication and frequent dressing changes. 3. Some skin diseases are incurable. 38. Can ivermectin cure all skin diseases in dogs and cats? Answer: Skin diseases in dogs and cats are caused by many reasons, with different causes and different treatments. Ivermectin can only treat skin diseases caused by some external parasites (such as mites, ticks, lice, etc.) in dogs and cats. Ineffective against all non-parasitic skin diseases. 39. Does skin mite negative mean that there is no mite disease? Answer: The current laboratory diagnosis technology for mites mostly involves scraping off skin flakes and placing them under a microscope to look for worm bodies or eggs. Even if you cannot see mites or eggs, you cannot absolutely rule out that there is no mite infection. The reasons are as follows: 1. The method of scraping the diseased material is incorrect. First, you should choose to scrape at the junction of the affected skin and healthy skin, where there are more mites; secondly, use a convex-edged blade so that the blade is perpendicular to the skin to scrape off the skin scrapings until the skin bleeds slightly. 2. When checking for Demodex mites, it is not advisable to scrape the dander. Because Demodex mites live in hair follicles and sebaceous glands, scraping is not deep enough and cannot be detected. A better method is to squeeze the lesion hard, squeeze out the pus, and spread the pus on a glass slide for examination. 3. Because there are few parasitic mites, or the lesions are old or have been treated with medication, it is difficult to detect them. 40. What should we pay attention to when testing for coated skin fungi? Answer: The fungi that cause dermatophytosis mostly accumulate at the edges of skin lesions, and there are often no fungi present in the center of the lesions. When collecting coat or dander, it must be from the edge of the skin. 41. How to prevent dogs and cats from getting skin diseases? Answer: 1. It is best to feed dogs and cats special dog and cat food and use special bath liquid. 2. Reduce the chance of contact with sick dogs and cats. 3. Reduce dogs and cats from going to the lawn in summer to prevent infection with external parasites. 4. Carry out regular disinfection of the environment. 42. My puppy went to the hospital to see a skin disease. The doctor said it was mites, but it didn’t heal after a lot of mite injections. Why? Answer: What people commonly call mites mostly refers to skin diseases caused by Demodex. Because Demodex mites live in hair follicles and can cause inflammation, so only mite injections are used during treatment, and the effect may not be ideal. It is best to use antibiotics to reduce inflammation at the same time. If possible, it is recommended to do some more detailed examinations to prevent missed diagnosis. 43. Our puppy is itching all the time, but the skin on his body is not red or blistered. Why? Answer: There are several possibilities: 1. Bathing too often damages the protective layer of the puppy’s skin and makes the puppy feel uncomfortable. 2. The bath liquid used is human bath liquid. Because the pH of dog skin is different from that of humans, puppies are not adaptable. 3. Puppies may be mildly allergic or intolerant to the food they feed. 44. The puppy’s hair does not grow after being shaved. Why? Answer: This may be related to the incorrect clipper method used when shaving or the clipper being used continuously for too long to generate heat and damage the hair follicles. It is recommended that if you want to do beauty treatments, it is best to find professional beauticians. 45. My Cocker Spaniel has mite disease. Is it okay to breed it and save seeds? Answer: It is recommended that this kind of dog be eliminated. First, this disease is hereditary, and puppies can also inherit it. Second, the disease may recur due to hormone secretion in this kind of dog after it is in estrus or bred.

46. ??Can skin diseases in dogs and cats be transmitted to humans? Answer: Due to the different types of skin diseases, it is incorrect to give a yes or no answer. Fungal skin diseases in dogs and cats and canine scabies mites can be transmitted to humans. Some common skin diseases such as dermatitis are not contagious to humans. However, for the sake of hygiene and safety, it is necessary and necessary to take certain protective measures for dogs and cats suffering from skin diseases. 47. Is it normal for dogs and cats to shed hair during the Spring and Autumn Festival? Answer: At this time, dogs and cats will lose hair. Molting occurs to protect against cold or to relieve severe heat. 48. My Scottish Shepherd has mite disease. Can he get a mite injection? Answer: No, dogs in this category will have severe allergic reactions to mite injections such as ivermectin. 49. Summer is here, and ectoparasitic skin diseases are common in dogs and cats. Are there any good preventive methods? Answer: The best way is to stay away from the source of infection and reduce the chance of going to the wild, grassland, etc. Of course it is very difficult to do this. Nowadays, some medicines have preventive and therapeutic effects. Such as Fukexin, Fulien drops, sprays, Novartis's nemesis, health care pills, etc. As the hot summer approaches, prevention with these medicines is trustworthy. 50. My puppy has a skin disease, what should I do? Answer: There is no need to panic if your puppy has skin diseases. You can consult a specialized pet doctor. You can usually get a satisfactory answer for minor problems. If the skin disease is serious or does not improve after treatment, you should take it to the animal hospital immediately.