What are the types of pet skin diseases?

Types of pet skin diseases:

1. Parasitic skin diseases: skin allergies caused by fleas, lice and other insect bites. Infections such as scabies, demodex, and ear mites can also cause skin diseases.

2. Bacterial and viral skin diseases, bacterial infection and inflammation, red and swollen skin with pus spots, sick dogs scratching and itching, secondary infection is more common clinically.

3. Fungal skin disease, also known as ringworm, is a skin disease caused by fungal infection of the skin, hair, and claws.

4. Allergic skin diseases, including food allergy (protein), drug allergic dermatitis, the surface is skin edema and papules.

5. Nutritional skin diseases, lack of vitamins or trace elements.

6. Skin diseases caused by hormone abuse are iatrogenic skin diseases, mainly caused by long-term and large-scale use of hormones, especially dexamethasone and prednisone. Clinical use of hormones can significantly relieve disease symptoms in the short term, but long-term use will cause serious side effects , eventually showing symptoms of skin diseases.

7. Skin diseases caused by chemical and physical factors, chemical stimulation, sun radiation, X-ray damage, etc.

8. Autoimmune skin diseases, skin diseases caused by low autoimmune function, such as lupus erythematosus and pemphigus.

9. Seborrheic dermatitis, abnormal keratinization of the skin leads to excessive dander, and secondary mites and fungi will cause skin diseases to be further serious.

The main causes of pet skin diseases:

1. There are lice and flea parasites that bite the skin and cause skin allergies.

2. Endworm infection, mainly including scabies and worms, vermiforms mostly occur in puppies 5-10 days old, have a certain family history, some have no itching, the characteristics of the disease are not obvious when scratching, and the lesions are mostly on the face When it is severe, it develops to the whole body. At the beginning of the disease, the depilation boundary of the affected part is obvious, and there are small red protrusions around the hair follicles, accompanied by mild flushing and bran-like desquamation of the skin, which then turns coppery.

3. Fungal infection, which usually occurs in the dog's coat, skin epidermis, and claw horny tissue. It is characterized by depilatory spots on the skin, and skin lesions have exudate scales and knots. It mainly occurs on the face, ears, and limbs. At the beginning of the disease, it is red, swollen and scratched, and then the hair falls off and the exudate becomes infatuated. When infected with bacteria, dense blisters occur, and systemic symptoms appear.

4. Nutritional factors, the diet is often single, such as eating meat for a long time, will lack various vitamins. Such as skin diseases caused by the lack of fatty acids.

5. Improper care can also induce skin diseases. Dogs generally tend to clean and keep the coat and limbs dry, but excessive cleaning of the dog’s coat is not a good thing, especially the alkaline cleaning solution can easily cause damage to the dog’s oil protective layer Make the skin susceptible to pathogenic bacteria and make the skin dull.