Skin & Ear Infections
Bacterial skin infection (pyoderma) and yeast (Malassezia) overgrowth, and the ear infections (otitis) that so often come with them — the smell, the goo and the extra scratching. Nearly always secondary to something else (allergy, parasites, a skin-fold or a foreign body), so recurrent infections, and recurrent ears especially, are usually an allergy problem, not just an ear problem.
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Recurrent ear infections: why they keep coming back
There is a pattern most owners of a flare-prone pet know by heart. The ear clears on the drops. A few weeks later your pet is shaking their head again, the ear smells, and you are back at the start, opening the third or...
Treating the infection and finding the cause: why antibiotics alone are not the answer
A course of antibiotic tablets is the classic fix for a flared, smelly, itchy patch of skin or ear, and a fortnight later the problem is gone. So when it returns, and it does return, the natural move is to ask for the...
The smell, the goo and the scratching: skin and ear infections explained
A dog that suddenly smells different, a strong sweetish slightly rancid odour that wasn't there last week. An ear weeping brown waxy gunk, and the head-shaking that goes with it. A patch of skin the pet won't leave...
Hot spots: the angry patch that appears overnight
A normal dog goes to bed, and by morning there's a raw, weeping, hairless patch the size of a coin, hot to the touch and clearly sore. It looks alarming, and it genuinely was not there yesterday. The single most useful...
Breeds prone to Skin & Ear Infections
Skin & Ear Infections is seen more often in some breeds than others. If you have one of these, its breed guide covers what to watch for and where to get help.
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