Hi,
Thanks for the advice. The tiny blisters have thankfully gone now, without any
need for the vet. We think she may have run through some stinging nettles when
she had her daily run in a nearby field. The field is normally used for hay
growing, so everything is left to grow. We've taken her to another field where
the grass is shorter and she hasn't had a problem. We've spoken to a few people
and we think she may be allergic to something that grows at this time of year.
It was about this time when she had the lumps before and her hair began to thin
aswell. Over the last 2 weeks her hair has begun to thin again, luckily not as
bad as last year though. Do you know of any cases of doggie hayfever? it seems
that by august her hair starts to grow back again. The hair only seems to thin
on her underside/ belly and the rest of her coat is it's normal shinny thick
self. She has hypo-allergenic food along with cod liver oil each day, so i don't
know what else to do. We've even tried
e45 cream on her belly, where the dundruff is worse and it seems to be helping.
Thank you again for you help and i will speak to our vet about the posibility
of mange.
Emma

julie parrott <oxfordshipton@...> wrote:
Hi Emma

It might be worth asking your vet to check for demodectic mange.....they take a
skin scraping and it will tell immediately if that is the problem. If it is,
please let me know because I think I have finally found a solution that works
for older dogs. I have been trying to clear it up on my 6 yo male dobie for two
years now using different prescribed drugs and washes and I've finally found
something that is working. It is caused when the dog's immune system is down for
some reason and the mites which live on every dog's coat and normally don't
cause a problem, multiply and the dog keeps scratching and scratching - losing
hair and if it continues,

All the vets I have spoken to say that it is hereditary and it is found in
Dobermanns (and other breeds as well). My dobie boy had a magnificent coat
before the first outbreak. He got stressed when I went overseas on holidays even
though he stayed in his same environment ie at home with the rest of the family.

Let me know if the tests show that this is the problem.
cheers
Julie

"ej.2411" <ej.2411@...> wrote:
Hi,
I'm a new member and i hoping that somebody can help me. I have a 2
1/2 year old female doberman and i've had her for just over a year.
She was a rescue dog from wood green animal shelter. The shelter did
their best to give us some history on her, but there is alot we still
don't know. Not long after we got her she started getting small lumps
all over her chest and some grew quite big. The vet removed them and
they were just fatty lumps and she was given antibiotics. They cleared
her skin up. She has always had dandruff and we've found that the very
mild dandruff shampoos clear it up, but recently she has developed
tiny blisters on her belly and at the top of her thighs.
Is there a particular skin problem that most dobermans suffer with ?
and if some what's the best way to treat it? At the moment the
blisters aren't bothering her and i don't know if she's just allergic
to something in the fields where she goes walking or if it is a more
serious skin problem. If anybody has any ideas i would be most
grateful.
Emma

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