Vets/vet nurses/anyone heard of this? Skin problems...loooong!

[Oneofthepack]

Indie has always had small raised brown patches from a few mm to 1cm, sort of hard and waxy, hard to get off but if you peel them off the skin bleeds underneath sometimes so I've left them alone. The skin underneath her feet between her toes has been very sore with what the vet thinks is an allergy gone infectious and when she saw these patches on her back legs she said it looked bacterial and to wash them with hibiscrub when I did her feet.

Now I think these patches may be what's making her feet sore as they have appeared in a couple of spots (my eyesights not great and they may have been there all along!) When I wash her feet some areas of this brown stuff won't come off but go sort of like fat when it hits cold water even if I wash it with warm water. Nearly 3 weeks later with 2 different antibiotics one of the feet, the one with the most noticable patches, has still not really got any better. It's red, cracks and bleeds underneath these patches and the pads are swollen, when I wash her the cotton wool pads come off brown but then 6 hours later when I do it again more brown comes off so it's building up again.

Has anyone ever heard of this

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

Hi, I'm not a nurse or vet, but I do have some nutritional experience, and I would personally want to work out what the allergy was, and remove that from her diet, and then treat the infection seperately. What do you feed Indie?

 

[camilla4]

Hi One of the Pack - ought to say for the record that am not a vet or vet nurse but do have lots of doggie experience!

It does sound like an allergy and certainly could be dietary but would want to rule out external factors too. Does she walk anywhere there are substances that could be problematic? eg. fertilisers, industrial waste etc? Is is at all seasonal or is it all the time? Is there any way it could be a reaction to medication - flea/worm treatment or medicine (doesnt' sound likely, I admit!). Shampoo? Does she go swimming anywhere?

What diet is she on?

Will keep thinking!

 

[Oneofthepack]

She had these brown spots when I got her 18 months ago, though the thing with her feet is new. I wondered if it had spread to her feet and made them sore because it affects the skin underneath. I'm wondering if it was an allergy at all but this bacterial thing. Only way to tell is a skin scrape I guess.

She has a dry food which I have to keep changing as she stops liking it so it's either Burns, JWB or Harringtons with a little Butchers tripe mixed in to make her eat it, plus a raw chicken wing with her meds in for breakfast and an occasional sardine so nothing out of the ordinary.

 

[camilla4]

Did you get her as a puppy or was she adult?

 

[competitiondiva]

I can't quite picture what you are describing, any pics? But If its bacterial or fungal talk to your vet about malaseb shampoo, it works wonders for things like mange to bacterial skin infections, you need to leave the shampoo on for about 10 mins I think it is before washing off. It worked wonders on my dog when she picked up a bacterial skin infection a while ago. A few baths a week with antibiotics and a few weeks later all gone.....

I think it is a prescription only medicine so would need to get from a vet.

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Personally I would give her aloe vera juice in her feed - it works brilliantly on all sorts of skin problems and as it is safe to use long term if it works.

 

[Oneofthepack]

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Did you get her as a puppy or was she adult?

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She was ancient when I got her and on her last legs really but still happy so it's a shame she's so uncomfortable with this foot thing

 

[Oneofthepack]

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I can't quite picture what you are describing, any pics? But If its bacterial or fungal talk to your vet about malaseb shampoo,

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Funnily enough I'm collecting some later! Had a long talk with another vet and she thinks it may be fungal + bacterial

so I have to soak her feet twice a day for 5 mins each...ah well, I have nothing else to do!

I can't get any pics that don't show her feet just being brown but if it continues I'll try again. We're going down the maleseb route then swabs for analysis if it still doesn't clear and I'll try the aloe vera juice as she has dry skin anyway.

Thank y'all