Raphael needs a skin scraping :(

So, when I adopted Raph, they told me he had a bit of psychogenic alopecia. He was missing a strip of hair down his back with a big ol' spot kinda in the middle of his back. Fine. Textbook case. I've dealt with it before. Plus, I work at the shelter (in socialization) and had seen how stressed and lonely and sad he was.

Well, I'm looking at his spot today and I notice that the spot looks drier and kinda like it's going to get scaley and it has those darker, irritated spots. It's not ringworm, because I've seen ringworm, but I need ideas.

He's going in tomorrow evening for a visit re his digestive pyrotechnics so he'll actually have to stay overnight in our clinic for observation

Anyway, I'm going to have the doctor that's in do a skin scraping. Is that all I should ask? What might this be that I should ask the doctor to investigate?

Thanks!

Stupid ?? has he had a senior panel?? if no he should for at least a baseline for the future... hair issues can be kidney pancreas and liver related... those can also cause digestive issues..

I know they've done blood workup on him, I saw the results in his chart and everything was fine. I don't think it was a senior panel, it think it was just a regular complete blood workup. But wouldn't that show all of the enzymes and their levels?

Senior panel certainly couldn't hurt. I believe it more closely looks at liver/kidney things. If they're going to draw blood anyway, doing a senior panel isn't much of a bigger deal.
Hugs to poor Raph and his boo-boos.

Originally Posted by lionessrampant

I know they've done blood workup on him, I saw the results in his chart and everything was fine. I don't think it was a senior panel, it think it was just a regular complete blood workup. But wouldn't that show all of the enzymes and their levels?

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traditionally I think regular blood work is a general CBC with possibly some anti bodies ... it doesnt check organ function and other specifics that a senior usally covers