Treatment of skin diseases in dogs

In recent years, there has been a great increase in the number of dogs, many dogs are concentrated in the city's small and medium-sized squares to play, resulting in the spread of disease. Among them, skin disease infection accounts for about 20%. The causes of skin diseases are related to poor feeding and management, deterioration of the ecological environment, lack of exercise in cages, and other adverse factors. The skin diseases of dogs can be subdivided into bacterial, fungal, viral, protozoal, parasitic, endocrine, immune, dietary, depilatory, liver dysfunction and other types.

Bacterial is characterized by pyoderma, and the severity is divided according to the depth of skin damage; its main symptoms are acute dermatitis of lips, tail, vagina and scrotum, rupture of epidermis and hair follicles, pustules of mucosa and epithelial cuticle, damage to subcutaneous tissue develops into dermis necrosis, anaerobic cellulitis, folliculitis and furunculosis. Fungi are common for fungi to invade the surface of the skin. Viruses are common for botulism or papillomavirus to invade the surface of the skin. The most common protozoa are leishmaniasis, Babe clonorchiasis and sarcosporosis. Parasites are common for scabies and hair follicle tsutsugamushi to damage the skin; in addition, flea bites can also produce strong itching, which can make the skin scratched and inflamed. Endocrine, common for thyroid dysfunction, pituitary dwarfism, diabetes caused by lupus erythematosus.

Food related to lack of biotin, vitamin B, vitamin A, iron and zinc deficiency; symptoms are dandruff that scrapes the skin due to itching, this type of disease can be treated by supplementing the missing vitamins and trace elements In addition, food allergies can also cause skin diseases, and as the disease develops, eczema dermatitis will occur as a result of domestic poisoning. The treatment is to find allergens and allergenic factors in contact with dogs for symptomatic treatment. The causes of depilatory skin diseases are hair generation dysfunction, hair follicle dystrophy, hair follicle damage, hair follicle degeneration and periodic growth arrest of hair follicles. In addition to the above many reasons can cause skin diseases in dogs, liver dysfunction can also cause dermatitis.

Skin diseases in dogs can not be considered as congenital and genetic diseases, some are related to the formation of skin pigments, some are caused by neuropathy, some are caused by Rickettsia and worms, some are caused by skin swelling, some are epithelial primary, and some are not actually harmful to dogs. At present, among the skin diseases of many dogs, the etiology of some diseases has not yet been identified and is still under study.

All kinds of drugs for the treatment of dog skin diseases have different pharmacological effects in vivo. In addition to drug therapy, there are ultraviolet, laser and other physiotherapy, as well as protein therapy, tissue therapy and so on. The main drugs for the treatment of dermatomycosis are mycins and sulfonamides, which are used to add ingredients containing various pharmacological effects to make preparations with effective external application. In the treatment of dermatitis, the dosage form of the drug can be selected according to the etiology of dermatitis, the sensitivity of dermatitis to drugs and the lesion depth of dermatitis. Glucocorticoids and immunomodulators are also drugs for the treatment of dermatitis, and vitamin therapy is of great significance for the treatment of dermatitis. Staphylococcal vaccines and autologous vaccines are widely used in the treatment of pyoderma to produce immune responses against corresponding pathogens. Multivalent antifungal vaccines are needed in the treatment of skin mycosis.

In short, the treatment of skin diseases in dogs must be treated with different methods according to the different causes of all kinds of skin diseases.