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Well alas I don't have a picture. But here is the story:
My cat most likely has allergies. She scratches around the eyes, ears and licks her feet, also licks the body more than I deem normal. However it is not excessive either. I have heard stories of pets that licked themselves litterally raw from allergies, so it is not that bad, but since the behavior gets better with cortison, the doctor said it's most likely allergies.
A few months ago it went really bad and I went to another doc since it was the weekend. They said it was a bacterial infection of the ear as a secondary infection from the scratching and gave her antibiotic. She also cleaned out the ears and took a skin sample to check for parasites and fungus (both negative). The antibiotic helped her, no doubt. but here is the strange part:
When I went to the doc that day, I did it after examining her hears and finding stuff that I would describe as some sort of scab, a hard, crusty material that was coming off the skin but didn't fall off since it was formed around the hair and thus stuck to the hair, it took quite some manipulating to get it free, sometimes cutting of the hair. Underneath it though, there was no wound, no raw skin, nothing.
In the area of the skin that is the between the ears and the eyes, which is always easy to see, the skin looked like it had blackheads, small black spots. They didn't come off with cleaning and the doctor even said, it may be some form of blackheads in the pores and I should use benzolperoxyde sparsely to keep them from becoming infected (which I did not do, partly because I forgot about these spots since I did not consider them important).
Now it's a month or two after these events and I keep cleaning her hears regularly with catwipes. Today it came to my attention that these black spots have disappeared. Well, common wisdom suggests that blackheads don't disappear from being wiped over 2 or 3 times a week, so it must have been something else. Again, there were no earmites, the doc checked that.
Does anybody have an idea what that might have been? I'm just curious, partly because I want to avoid another such episode.
Thanks all
My cat most likely has allergies. She scratches around the eyes, ears and licks her feet, also licks the body more than I deem normal. However it is not excessive either. I have heard stories of pets that licked themselves litterally raw from allergies, so it is not that bad, but since the behavior gets better with cortison, the doctor said it's most likely allergies.
A few months ago it went really bad and I went to another doc since it was the weekend. They said it was a bacterial infection of the ear as a secondary infection from the scratching and gave her antibiotic. She also cleaned out the ears and took a skin sample to check for parasites and fungus (both negative). The antibiotic helped her, no doubt. but here is the strange part:
When I went to the doc that day, I did it after examining her hears and finding stuff that I would describe as some sort of scab, a hard, crusty material that was coming off the skin but didn't fall off since it was formed around the hair and thus stuck to the hair, it took quite some manipulating to get it free, sometimes cutting of the hair. Underneath it though, there was no wound, no raw skin, nothing.
In the area of the skin that is the between the ears and the eyes, which is always easy to see, the skin looked like it had blackheads, small black spots. They didn't come off with cleaning and the doctor even said, it may be some form of blackheads in the pores and I should use benzolperoxyde sparsely to keep them from becoming infected (which I did not do, partly because I forgot about these spots since I did not consider them important).
Now it's a month or two after these events and I keep cleaning her hears regularly with catwipes. Today it came to my attention that these black spots have disappeared. Well, common wisdom suggests that blackheads don't disappear from being wiped over 2 or 3 times a week, so it must have been something else. Again, there were no earmites, the doc checked that.
Does anybody have an idea what that might have been? I'm just curious, partly because I want to avoid another such episode.
Thanks all
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