«Rippling Skin Disorder» is a common name for a condition known technically as
Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome (FHS), and it is characterized by a number of seemingly unrelated symptoms.
Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: My 5 - year - old male cat has been exhibiting signs
of feline hyperesthesia syndrome for two years.
There is no diagnostic test
for feline hyperesthesia syndrome, and as with psychogenic alopecia, it is diagnosed by eliminating other diseases from consideration, such as:
Without the medication, her symptoms present
like feline hyperesthesia, another illness that is essentially diagnosed via process of elimination.
Other cats have a condition
called feline hyperesthesia syndrome, which causes their skin to be highly sensitive, so a small pet or scratch might be painful or extremely uncomfortable.
The Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome can take up to one year to cure in some cases.
Sometimes called rippling skin disorder,
feline hyperesthesia is often seen as a reaction to being petted or touched along the back.
Feline hyperesthesia syndrome is treated by decreasing stress in your cat's life.
Feline hyperesthesia syndrome and feline psycogenic alopecia are two interesting and often overlapping syndromes of cats.
When all underlying medical diseases have been eliminated or properly treated,
feline hyperesthesia syndrome is diagnosed by exclusion.
Amy Shojai, a former Contributing Writer on Cat Behavior, refers to
feline hyperesthesia as an aggressive condition, in her article, Cat Aggression: Hyperesthesia
The critical difference between «normal crazy behavior» that most younger cats exhibit and
feline hyperesthesia is that with the latter, the cat is actually in distress.