Hot Spot

Hot Spot: Hot spots are also known as Pyotraumatic dermatitis or superficial Pyoderma. It occurs mainly due to over population of certain kind of natural bacteria. Hot spots often occur in dogs with under-performing immune systems. Any dog can develop hot spots, but they’re much more common in dogs with thick coats, dirty and/or moist skin, and dogs with allergies, including fleas.
Hot spots can be very painful for your dog and quite sensitive to the touch. Itching, discharge of watery liquid and in severe cases pus can observed. This disease is not only common in dogs but cows, buffaloes, goats etc can also be victims of hot spot. 


Symptoms

•  Itching
• Fever
• Hair Fall
• Laziness 

Treatment

 If your canine companion develops a hot spot, you’ll need to do two things:
 

• Treat the wound
• Identify the underlying cause 

Treating the wound includes disinfecting the wound, shaving the wounded area, checking the wound for any parasites. Various liquids such as Povidone-iodine, Piodine, Distilled Water can be used.Applying a topical solution. After you clean the wound you can apply a topical solution like colloidal silver, or raw aloe, or a thin layer of manuka honey, which is a raw honey made from the tea tree plant. You can also use a cool chamomile tea bag against the wound to provide a soothing effect.
 Repeat the disinfecting procedure and application of a light, natural topical soothing gel afterwards until the wound shrinks in size, the infection clears and your pet is no longer bothered by the hot spot.

Now the question arises how to identify the underlying cause of this disease for example if your dog digs or chew a body part several times a day it can develop a hot spot. Sometimes there are underlying mental or emotional causes for your dog’s hot spots, such as obsessive compulsive disorder, separation anxiety, or even boredom. Allergic sensitivities are also the cause of hot spot environmental changes, food change and water can cause hotspot.

If hot spot keep on spreading various tests can be performed such as blood cp, skin testing etc