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Cat Health & Behaviour => Health & Behaviour General => Topic started by: Kelly on September 04, 2007, 18:51:04 PM
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Just seen my brother and one of his 11yr old cats has a skin problem. She's losing her furr on her belly and has small pale pink spots/lumps on her belly. She also has one developing on her ear and leg. My instant thought was a flea allergy but she was very recently deflead (is pretty much an indoor cat) and their other cat has no fleas or skin problems. Anyone any ideas???? Obviously he's getting her to the vet but the earliest he can is the Thursday eve surgery.
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ringworm?? can cause hair loss, generally a circular reddishness if you can see the skin .... :-:
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He needs to get her checked out by vet quick, especially if it maybe ringworm cos that can pass to humans.
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Dont think ringworm causes spots/lumps, but I would certainly be getting her checked out.
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Here's an excerpt from FAB's ringworm info.
What does a cat with ringworm look like?
'The appearance of cats with ringworm is very variable. Some cats have severe skin disease while other cats have only very minor lesions or no lesions at all and look completely normal. Typical skin lesions are discrete, roughly circular areas of hair loss, particularly on the head, ears or extremities of the paws. The hairs surrounding affected areas appear broken. The affected skin is often scaly and may look inflamed. However, ringworm can look very similar to many other feline skin diseases, including some of the clinical manifestations of flea allergy dermatitis, and may present as symmetrical alopecia or even feline acne. Some loss of hair is usually involved, but the amount of inflammation, scaling and itchiness (pruritus) can be very variable. In very unusual cases cats may appear just to have an ear infection or infection of the claws. '
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Change in washing powder?
Started using those smelly carpet powders?
Change in diet?