What could her skin condition be?

Hi my 8 month old SBT has been having difficulty with skin problems for awhile she has a lot of hairless resulting in bald patches on her stomach mainly under arms and legs, her face is also affected by bald patches and also hair loss down the back of her back , the thing concerning me the most however is the puss filled boils all under her body on inside of arms and legs these look very red and soar and are also appearing in a purple colour we have had her to the vets and skin scraping came back as normal an she was also given a supply of anti biotics steroids and medicated shampoo none however have had an affect I was just wondering if anyone new the cause and what I can do to improve this

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Ooh poor baby, first off what are you feeding her? a lot of skin problems are from diet. I have had these problems and now use Viacutan plus oil on Vins food which seems to work very well. When you have a minute come and say hi here xx
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Hi I feed her on dry food , so maybe I could try changing her food ? And I will have to give it ago anything is worth a shot and thanks will do x

Is it a complete food and which one   

Yes complete and wagg , that's the only one she will eat , she's picky when it comes to other dry food and this is the only one that really works for her , she has this twice a day

Sorry but theres your problem get her off it asap, you will have to do it gradually though, here is a list of complete foods and do invest in the Viacutan plus oil I get mine from Amazon give her 4 squirts for a few weeks and then cut down to 2 but every day on her food.
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Thanks a lot , do you think this could be the cause of her boils and hair loss

Almost definitely, just make sure you change it bit by bit over a couple of weeks, until she is on the new food all together. If she is picky then a little scrambled egg (fresh eggs made with no milk) or sardines on there just to tempt her. Do try this asap and please let us know how things are going xx

I have to say also its exactly the same as Vin had the boils and rashes, I personally don't feed complete but found Nature diet meat a god send xx

Thanks I will try this and let use know the results, I have a 8 years old SBT and she's never had any problems like this just poor Levi , it doesn't seem to pain her and she doesn't itch much just don't like seeing her like this

Its awful to see, do try the oil as I swear by it but yes get her off the wagg. Will want to see some cleared up Levi skin pics an a few weeks xx

A couple of our Dogo Argentino's had this problem and it was diet as well as an allergy to shampoo. Like yours, ours didn't seem to be affected with itchiness although the sores did look very sore.

Once we switched to a high quality grain free food, their skin really improved and healed. We found that chicken and eggs also caused a reaction, so eliminated those too with great success.

The medicated shampoos never worked our boys and even the hypoallergenic types seemed to aggravate their skin so ended up only washing them with plain water.

Also try to make sure that his drinking water is not from the tap as I've heard some dogs with skin issues can have sensitivities to the chemicals in there like the fluoride and chlorine. Once they switched to bottled or filtered water, their skin issues improved or disappeared.

Hi Diane I have wondered about Vins skin reactions on his face and chin, whether its the tap water as its only on his face.   

Inez Maria wrote:Hi Diane I have wondered about Vins skin reactions on his face and chin, whether its the tap water as its only on his face.   

What sort of water or food bowl does he use? I heard that plastic bowls are bad and can cause infections because it can breed bacteria so have always used stainless steel bowls after we were told that. If he's using stainless steel bowls, maybe try filtered bottled water.

Stainless steel bowls yes, will try filtered as I wonder if it splashes on his face that's what irritates it. Our water here is very hard the amount of kettles we go through because of the lime scale   

Inez Maria wrote:Stainless steel bowls yes, will try filtered as I wonder if it splashes on his face that's what irritates it. Our water here is very hard the amount of kettles we go through because of the lime scale   

The water could be it then. No harm in changing it to see if it makes a difference