My dog won't stop scratching. What's causing his chronic skin issues?
Updated On September 23rd, 2025
Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed | Male | unneutered | 2 years and 1 month old | 20 lbs
Please help me to solve my dog skin disease,he is scratching all the time.Age 2 now.He has need like this since 1.5 years.Tried many , including local vet and pet shop but nothing worked and now people are suggesting to euthanasia as the disease is getting worst.
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Published on April 11th, 2018
Hi there and thank you for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach to address your concern. At such a young age, skin parasites are high on my list as the possible cause. This requires anti-parasite medication to treat Browny with. In the US we use products such as Bravecto and Nexgard to treat skin mites, so something comparable should help with a mite infestation. He may also be dealing with a bad bacterial skin infection in addition to the mites or as its own primary problem. He may also need a 2-3 week course of an oral antibiotic and medicated shampoo such as Douxo PS Chlorhexidine combination shampoo and bathe twice weekly until resolved. I would talk to your veterinarian about skin mites as the possible cause, a skin infection or allergies as the cause. If he does not have skin mites or a skin infection, this could certainly be a severe allergy such as Atopic Dermatitis. With Atopic Dermatitis, certain medications like Atopica or Cytopoint can prove to be quite beneficial and helpful at eliminating or reducing the clinical signs. I hope this helps guide you in the right direction. Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns and I would be more than happy to help you further.
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Published on July 31st, 2017
Hi there, and thanks for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach! Sorry Blackie is feeling so poorly. Dermatology cases are amongst the most challenging of our job. I would first recommend to make sure he is on a good flea preventative and do a skin scrape to rule out any mites that may be exacerbating your skin issues. If it is true allergies-medications like Apoquel (taken orally) or Cytopoint (a once a month injection) can be used to help with the itch factor. Dependent on if your pet has a secondary skin infection, he may also need antibiotics. As for OCD issues-medications like fluoxetine can be pursued for behavioral modifications, but will likely require a full work up with bloodwork before your vet will prescribe them. Most problems are manageable-it just takes a while to weed out what the allergy is to (fleas, food, other environment). Food trials can help a lot with skin issues as well but take a much longer time to see results. Hope this helps!
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