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Originally Posted by MyTrixie143 Thats great that you got it all figured out!!! I am sure Trixie is much happier now too!!
What kind of skin problems has she had?? My friend has a shih tzu and they think it has a type of allergy but nothing is helping. And her coat is oily and smells and she gets sores everywhere for scratching. They just can't figure out how to help her, I feel so bad for her. |
She has a skin mite called demodex. The specialist said she probably has had it since she was a little puppy and somehow we never found it and it got gradually worse. It's a mite that only gets transferred from the mother to the puppy (so not dog to dog and dog to human). It sits around the hair follicle and clogs it and causes infection. The hair will get oily (Trixie was diagnosed with Sebborhea as well earlier this year... which isn't the case either), the hair follicles will turn black like it is clogged and sometimes have crusty infections.
Please have her ask the vet for a skin scrape for mites! I had asked both my vets about mites, but they said it was allergies.