Pitbull Skin Problems

What are the most common pitbull skin problems?

This is important to know because sooner or later most pitbulls will experience them wheater they are temporary or chronic.

When this happens owners get very confused as to the cause.

To simplify the diagnosis keep in mind that there usually are six essential categories of dog skin problems as follows:

1. Allergies, for exemple a reaction to a type of dog food, medications, flowers or flea and thick bites.

2. Environment: did you use a new type of detergent to clean the carpet or the kennel where your pitbull is staying? Try removing it and see what happens

3. Infections, which could be bacterial, viral or fungal.

4. Neurogenic; this is when your American Pitbull has some kind of obsessive compulsive disorder that triggers the compulsion to lick himself until there is an irritation on the skin.

5. Food, this is when some key ingredient is missing from your dog´s diet. You might even want to look at a natural diet or feeding some high quality dog food.

6. Parasites such as fleas, thicks and mites which can produce a variety of skin problems.

As you can see the causes of american pitbull skin problems are different and sometimes hard to detect.

If you wish to investigate more on this topic there is a great special report put out by Linda Kajda in which all the skin problems are covered in great detail as well as a bunch of natural alternatives that your pit will love and which will save you a great number of trips to your vet

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