FAQ Your dog's Skin

First, it is important to identify the cause of the allergy and your vet will help with this. Afterwards, treatment is generally multimodal and can evolve during your dog’s life. At all stages, using topical products like DOUXO^® S3 CALM to bring ingredients where needed and repair the skin barrier is essential.

First, it is essential to identify the cause of itching. Visit your vet for this. Some of them can be eliminated (fleas, infection, food allergy), and some need long-term management as the cause can’t be cleared up (allergy to dust, etc.). This management is usually multimodal. Using topical products like DOUXO^® S3 CALM will soothe itchy skin and repair the damaged skin barrier.

Itch is not a specific symptom. There are a lot of possible causes to it, from bacterial or fungal skin infection to parasites like fleas, mites. Allergies are also a major cause of itching (flea-related, food, environmental). Some other skin conditions can also cause itch. Visit your vet to identify the cause.

Hot spots can be only inflammatory and do not require the use for antiseptics or antibiotics but only soothing products (either topical or systemic). Sometimes, bacteria and/or yeast can overgrow and enhance the signs. In this case, the use of antimicrobial agents is essential. Ask your vet for a diagnosis and adapted management.

Your vet is your ally in this. He’ll probably ask you to clean with an ear cleanser and prescribe a treatment to be administered once, twice, every day or twice a day depending on the product. An ear infection is cleared in 1 to 3 weeks. Then your vet will search for the underlying cause, an infection rarely occurs spontaneously.

Yeast infections are often opportunistic, taking advantage of a compromised skin or immune system or another underlying problem. After clearing the infection, your vet will investigate the cause: it can be parasites, allergies, skin disorder, endocrine disorder, health condition, etc.

Bacterial skin infections are opportunistic. Some bacterias living at the skin surface benefit from an impairment of the skin barrier ecosystem to excessively grow up. There are a lot of causes for this: parasites, allergies, skin disorder, endocrine disorder, health condition, etc. Your vet will help you identify the cause.

There are many causes of dry skin in dogs and it needs to be identified to get rid of it (linked to the environment or caused by a health condition). Your vet will help to find the cause. Dry skin can be seen alongside dandruff. Topical products with specific action like DOUXO^® S3 SEB bring ingredients where it is needed.

Where are many potential underlying causes of dog dandruff. It can be linked to the environment or food allergies, poor diet, bacterial or fungal skin infections, parasites (fleas, mites, and walking dandruff). Many  health conditions like hypothyroidism or other endocrine disorders can also cause dandruff as well as primary seborrhoea. Visit your vet for more information.