Feline Psychogenic Alopecia: or Psychogenic dermatitis: Feline psychogenic
alopecia occurs if your cat licks herself, due to anxiety, stress, or boredom, until there is cat hair loss and skin irritation.
Catricial
alopecia occurs when the body's immune system damages the hair follicles and leads to the formation of scar tissue.
Black skin disease may also affect the Pomeranian, and this occurs when hyperpigmentation and
alopecia occur at the same time.
The primary way to diagnose demodectic mange is to do a skin scraping where the patches of
alopecia occur.
The primary way to diagnose sarcoptic mange is to do a skin scraping where the patches of
alopecia occur.
Not exact matches
Doctors refer to hair loss as «
alopecia,» and its various forms
occur commonly.
Three types; hair loss may
occur on the ears of Dachshunds (pinnal
alopecia); neck, thighs, and tail of American Water Spaniels and Portuguese Water Dogs; abdomen and the back of the thighs of Dachshunds, Chihuahuas, Whippets, and Greyhounds
In some dogs,
alopecia can only
occur in the legs.
Some symptoms that are important to note when they
occur along with
alopecia include the following: Itching.
Accordingly on day 10, the tea tree oil cream caused significantly faster relief than the control cream (p = 0.04) for two common clinical dermatitis signs, pruritus (
occurring in 84 % of dogs) and
alopecia.
Also, known as seasonal
alopecia this condition results in hair loss usually patches on the flank or sides often
occurring in spring or late autumn, hence the name.
The hair loss, known as
alopecia,
occurs over the torso.
Other symtpoms include hair loss (traumatic
alopecia), usually due to your cat over grooming, miliary dermatitis (skin with collections of pronounced red bumps), eosinophilic plaques (well - defined, raised, ulcerated and extremely pruritic lesions that
occur on the skin of cats, usually on the abdomen or hindlegs) and caling and shedding of the skin and usually accompanied by redness (exfoliative dermatitis).
But one needs to be sure that the hair loss and licking is not a simple reaction to stress
occurring in the cat's life (psychogenic
alopecia or hair loss).