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
If you are reading this with a fresh bottle of ear drops in your hand, the third or fourth of the year, you know the pattern. The ear clears. A few weeks later your pet is shaking their head again, the ear smells, and...
Treating the infection and finding the cause: why antibiotics alone are not the answer
You have been here before. The skin flared, the ear started to smell, your pet would not stop scratching, and a course of antibiotic tablets sorted it within a fortnight. So when it comes back, and it does come back,...
The smell, the goo and the scratching: skin and ear infections explained
You know the moment. Your dog comes in smelling different, a strong, sweetish, slightly rancid odour that is new and unpleasant. An ear starts weeping a brown, waxy gunk and the head-shaking begins. A patch of skin...
Hot spots: the angry patch that appears overnight
You went to bed with a normal dog and woke up to 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...
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