Dermatitis to miliar

It is a disease of the skin of immunological type where, the animal as opposed to reacts diverse factors that trigger the pathology like environmental (dusts, moulds, alérgenos several), parasitic, nourishing deficiencies, atópicos (not known origin).

The signs are variable, but the prurito predominates (picazón), by the rascado one of the animal take place injuries like escoriaciones, descamación and fall of the hair, generally in the region of the head, neck and back.

This affection takes to the appearance of other diseases associated like dermatitis, eczemas, changes in the behavior, granulomas, etc.
This type of allergy, between all the named factors, is related to three great causal ones that are hypersensitivity to the flea puncture, nourishing hypersensitivity and with atopía (not known origin).

The treatment is based according to the cause that originates the disease, but in many cases totally it is not known and it is decided to deal with the symptoms being improved the quality life of the animalito, changes the diet with a hipoalérgenico food of good quality and like drugs, glucocorticoids of the type of prednisolona and progestacionales are used.
Other treatments are made with inmunoterapia, but it is necessary to identify the first operating alérgeno and still the results are not encouraging in cats.

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