A Question About Dog Allergies
My dog has lots of tiny red spots on his tummy and seems forever
scratching, what could be causing it? Could it be an allergy?
An
allergy means a sensitivity to something, usually a food of some kind.
Heat bumps in children is an example. Perhaps your dog has an allergy
to eggs, or fish, or even milk with the cream on it. Perhaps you have
bathed it with some kind of medicated shampoo to which its skin is
sensitive.
Only by a process of elimination will you be
able to find out what is causing this irritation. In the meantime, just
to make sure the vet is right in his diagnosis, it is strongly
advisable that you bathe the dog in a good anti-pesticide soap that the
druggist can recommend for mange; when you have washed the dog, dry
it with the soap left in. This will make sure the spots you mention are
not follicular mange, which has the same symptoms and which the soap
will cure...