Has anyone ever heard of "milliary dermatitis"?

[Soapets]

I'm not sure if I spelled this right or not. Angel has little scabs all over her body. I mentioned them to the Vet. when I took her in for her yearly shots in September, but he didn't seem too concerned about them at the time. It was a temporary substitute Vet., as our regular Vet. wasn't in that day.

But they've gotten worse, so I took her back to the Vet. today, and she was examined by our regular Vet., and he diagnosed it as "milliary dermatits". He said it's probably an allergic reaction to something, but he doesn't know what. He gave her a cortisone shot, so hopefully it will settle down some.

She hasn't been "complaining" or acting like it's bothering her or anything. I can just feel it whenever I pet her. But when I would try to get a good look at one of them, she would start grooming and digging like it was itching.

I sure hope the cortisone shot helps!

Deb

P.S. I think Angel will try to convince us that it is Shadow and Annie that she is allergic to! :D

[catmandu]

Mr Scrappy had that once,and had huge patches of fur missing as well.
But with 2 Cortizone Shots,he was soon right as rain. We are praying that your Angel will soon be well, very soon.

[Bigears05]

My little guy spike had that we i got him. So the intern vet gave him a shot, and 10 minutes later he stopped moving. She said he went into a comma, he woke up about 2 hours later. 3 weeks lsince then; the scabs are gone and he is full of energy!

[sirrahbed]

It is feline miliary dermatitis and if you google that, there are quite a few links. I took a guess and dropped the other "l" :D

1 (http://www.sniksnak.com/cathealth/mil-derm.html)
2 (http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?articleid=150)
3 (http://www.vetinfo.com/callergy.html)
4 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2063524&dopt=Abstract)
5 (http://netscape.petplace.com/Articles/artShow.asp?artID=6)

[Soapets]

Thanks for the information. He checked her for fleas, and she does NOT have any of them, THANK GOD! He also took some hair samples from right where several of the lesions are, so hopefully we'll find a cause. She has to go back in three weeks. We HAVE found some hairballs around the house sometimes, and I started all three kitties on a hairball Science Diet food, in addition to the kitten's Science Diet kitten food.

She doesn't have any patches of hair loss at this point, either, so maybe we caught it fairly early. I'm somewhat upset that the Vet. who checked her in September didn't look into it any further then, though!

Deb

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

This could be an allergy to some food! My neighbour's dog had this too, he got almost bald... :eek: . Then they discovered he got it from eating fresh meat! They stopped giving him that, and all problems were over :)

[Logan]

I'm sorry I didn't see this post before. I almost hate to say this because it has been a constant problem for our Butter for almost 3 years now, although the first two years he was with me, he didn't have a single problem. This is exactly what was diagnosed. Hopefully your situation won't be as bad as ours. We have seen two vets, over and over, one a cat specialist, and both had the same diagnosis, and that some cats just get this and it can't be cured. The cortisone shot will last usually about 4-6 weeks, then we're back for another one. Butter creates horrible, bloody sores all over his legs and belly, and sometimes even tears up his own face because he itches so badly.

We were just back for a shot at the Cat Clinic on Friday and she did make some suggestions of things I could try when it first starts flaring up to see if we can slow it down a bit. I'll look for that information and let you know what she said. She gave me options that included any of of 1) Prednisone, 2)Chlortrimetron (an antihistimine) and 3) Benadryl, but I need to tell you exactly how much she told me to use.

I am so sorry. I hope that you won't have as much trouble as we have had.

Logan

[Soapets]

Thanks for the info. They're clearing up quite a bit since the cortisone shot. She has another appointment in about 2 more weeks for a recheck. Her mood has been better. It wasn't bad before, but she was just really, really quiet. She hasn't really been her "old self" since we first brought Shadow home in April. But she's been a little more playful the last few days than she had been for quite awhile---since before Shadow & Annie.

Deb