Sentences with phrase «cause patchy»

Mange can also cause patchy hair loss.

In people with vitiligo, which causes patchy loss of pigmentation, a certain kind of T cell is dominant in the afflicted areas of skin; patients with psoriasis, on the other hand, exhibit an increase in another kind of T cell.

I know this firsthand: 37 years ago, I was diagnosed with alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease causing patchy or complete bodily hair loss.

Ringworm causes patchy baldness, sometimes with scaling.

Not exact matches

Whatever the cause, Williams opened defense of her Olympic singles gold medal with a patchy - at - times 6 - 4, 6 - 2 victory over Australia's Daria Gavrilova on Sunday, gesturing or yelling at herself as she often does when not all goes her way.

Both opening bowlers extracted a huge amount of movement out of the patchy surface and Ruari Chrichard in particular caused havoc, taking four wickets in five overs, all caught behind.

This is the case with age - related macular degeneration — a «wet» version of which causes vision loss in the center of the eye — and diabetic retinopathy — in which some people with diabetes develop blurry or patchy vision.

Another Chinese team, from Guangzhou Medical University, in March became the first to report repairing disease - causing mutations in viable embryos, but some still contained a patchy mix of edited cells — a phenomenon called mosaicism.

(27 - 29) If the scalp is involved, this is called Alopecia Areata with patchy hair loss caused by auto - antibodies reacting with the hair follicles.

Other common problems people grapple with are rosacea, eczema, and psoriasis, which cause red, inflamed, patchy, or oozing skin.

They don't prick, cause irritation or apply patchy makeup.

A: There are many possible causes of patchy, crusty rashes, such as bacterial, fungal or allergic reactions, and there are certainly many alternatives to steroids.

Patchy hair loss of unknown cause seen in the Siberian Husky, Doberman Pinscher, Airedale, Boxer, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Curly Coated Retriever, Irish Water Spaniel, and Portuguese Water Dog

The lesions caused by dermatophyte infections can sometimes be circular and appear like a ring, but oftentimes simply will result in a scaly, patchy hairless area of the dog.

Not all skin conditions that result in patchy or circular hair loss are caused by ringworm, however.

There are many different infections that can cause your dog to experience patchy hair loss, including ringworm.

Diagnosis: Clinical signs and breed are suggestive, but other causes of patchy hair loss include bacterial demodex, or ringworm infection, or hormonal diseases such as hypothyroidism and Cushing's disease.

From kennel cough to ringworm, I thought there couldn't be anything worse... But of course, my little boy kept getting patchier everyday and I had no idea what was causing his bald spots.

The latter causes greasy ears and patchy, scaly, itchy spots.

Generalized demodicosis is a severe disease characterized by massive patchy or generalized hair loss and skin inflammation, often complicated by a bacterial infection that may cause the feet to swell.

Copper deficiency causes a dull, dry haircoat with patchy hair loss and loss of normal hair pigment.

Dogs with hair loss, patchy or generalized (found all over the body) can also cause skin rashes.

Cattle ranching, agriculture and other human activities are breaking up Costa Rican forests into isolated patchy fragments, but causing more problems for native plant populations than for monkey species sharing the same habitat.