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Originally Posted by mcpitre  Hello Everyone,
We have a little problem. Maddie has a bald spot behind her right front leg. She has been having this spot for about 6 months and it is has not grown back. She has been to two different veterinarians. Maddie's regular vet did a skin scraping and looked at the area with some kind of light. Dr. M prescribed her a tube of antibiotic and told me to apply it twice daily. Second vet gave her an injection of steroids for itching. The skin scrapping was negative, the antibiotic nor the steroid injection did anything. I am feeding her Royal Canine, she has been eating this since she was a baby. Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
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We are 7 months into a similar saga. We also checked to see if that was an area of a vaccination, but couldn't really identify any. We checked for injury or rubbing from her harness or anything in her environment she was snagging on. Antibiotic ointments, antibiotics, oral steroid courses - 3 times. She would improve a little and then relapse. Her spot was where her chip had migrated to. So, finally we had that removed about 10 days ago. Her single stitch comes out tomorrow. So, now we'll wait and see. We have noticed other things she's sensitive to also. We absolutely can not use latex grooming bands. Her head will immediately get irritated and she's begin pulling the band and whatever hair comes out with it. We also found applesauce makes her itchy - maybe only one brand - but we can just avoid that. We have adopted hypoallergenic shampoo and conditioner (Earth Bath) although those haven't seemed to cure anything.
The one thing that has worked to encourage hair growth is melatonin. We got the lowest dose at the health food store at the advice of our vet and she took that for 60 days. Her general coat improved and we would see hair start to grow in the area of loss but then relapse would happen. I think we will do that again soon as they had to shave the area around the area of the chip removal so now her spot is even bigger! At this point, I am not sure the original spot will ever grow back in but I'm hopeful that at least it won't spread as it had done before.
Hope you get answers. Good luck!