Skin problems

Odiefrenchie · Aug 17, 2018

Could someone help me out please my boy odie has had this skin problem, could anyone recommend what it could be please thanks

Honeys Owners · Aug 17, 2018

How old is he?

2bullymama · Aug 18, 2018

Odiefrenchie said:
Could someone help me out please my boy odie has had this skin problem, could anyone recommend what it could be please thanks

Age will help.... but it is either mange if under a year or a staph infection.

What food are you using?

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Odiefrenchie · Aug 26, 2018

He is 9 months now sorry for the late reply

Odiefrenchie · Aug 26, 2018

I’m feeding him Ava atm

2bullymama · Aug 26, 2018

Odiefrenchie said:
He is 9 months now sorry for the late reply

Probably mange... get to vet for a scape to confirm

Going to look up the food as I never heard of it

Looks to be a decent food —. I found this website in UK

https://www.allaboutdogfood.co.uk/

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Cbrugs · Aug 26, 2018

Yeah, I would go to vet for scraping.

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Honeys Owners · Aug 26, 2018

Odiefrenchie said:
I’m feeding him Ava atm

I noticed AVA bulldog has chicken and is recommended from age 12 months and up, not sure if you are using this one - a lot of bulldogs are allergic to chicken, plus your dog is only 9 months.

Frenchie Fanatic · Aug 26, 2018

Odiefrenchie said:
Could someone help me out please my boy odie has had this skin problem, could anyone recommend what it could be please thanks

Welcome to you and Odie!

As others have said, it sounds like a trip to the vet is in order.
Our first boy Simon used to get outbreaks on his skin where small patches would dry up.
It was from allergies.
We tried changing his food, but that didn't seem to help.
Our vet ended up putting him on Atopica.
It was amazing. He cleared up with no more issues.
Later he went on Apoquel. Just as effective.

Good luck to you and Odie.

Honeys Owners · Aug 26, 2018

Frenchie Fanatic said:
Welcome to you and Odie!
As others have said, it sounds like a trip to the vet is in order.
Our first boy Simon used to get outbreaks on his skin where small patches would dry up.
It was from allergies.
We tried changing his food, but that didn't seem to help.
Our vet ended up putting him on Atopica.
It was amazing. He cleared up with no more issues.
Later he went on Apoquel. Just as effective.

Good luck to you and Odie.

If it's just allergies, I would switch Odie to frozen raw dog food, and if that didn't help due to it being environmental allergies, I would get vet to give Cytopoint, which is less immunosupressive compared to Atopica and Apoquel. Cytopoint is the newest treatment which probably wasn't available at that time.

But right now we still have to treat the skin lesions with either chlorhexidine shampoos and antibiotics for a staph infection, or Nexgard monthly for mange.