My dog has allergies and hot spots. What can I do for his itchy skin?

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My dog has what I been told is allergies and hot spots what do I do. Pet's info: Dog | American Staffordshire Terrier | Male | neutered | 9 years and 3 months old | 65 lbs

Daniel Fonza, DVM · Accepted Answer

While difficult to say for sure what is going on with Junior, it appears as though Junior may have a skin infection and may need an oral antibiotic. Dogs can be predisposed to skin infections if they are dealing with a chronic allergy. If you have not changed dog food, you can try and switch foods to see if this helps and do this for about 6 weeks. If there is no improvement, you can try a different food for the same duration. If the food does not help, this could then be a environmental allergy. I would recommend having a veterinarian take a look at Junior so that the most appropriate treatments can be recommended. I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns and I would be more than happy to help you further.

My dog has allergies and hot spots. What can I do for his itchy skin?

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