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Discussion on Hair loss & stinky skin
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Zohara
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Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 8:21 pm:
Hi, Dr. O,
I have a gray Arabian mare who had a small spot last summer on her back just above her hips. It was itchy and the hair was falling out. To her great appreciation, I bathed her and really concentrated high pressure water on the spot for 5 minutes or so. After that, it just seemed to go away. No hair loss or continued itching. (She had been contorting herself to scratch the spot on a fence rail.)
This year, she's shedding her winter coat and she has a large patch, about the size of an English saddle, on her backbone and starting down her sides. There's tiny black specks, like dirt, but not really, and when I brush her, her hair falls out much more noticeably than anywhere else. To boot, there's an odd smell associated just in this patch. She smells just like a horse everywhere else, but this patch smells just like "stinky ears" in a dog, maybe kind of yeasty.
Any ideas? Just on a hunch, after I brushed her and removed the loose hair, I used a 50/50 bleach and water solution on her, which she seemed to get some relief from. At the rate she's going, she'll soon be bald, so I am hoping to get some ideas before resorting to more vet bills. Vaccines and floating teeth were all last month, so I'm trying to budget a bit on this one.
Many thanks for any thoughts.
Kind regards,
Diane
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DrO
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Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 7:55 am:
The odor does suggest infection, the question is whether bacterial or fungal. Either way however the recommendations in the article on rain rot will probably be effective.
DrO
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