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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 342810" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Susie - I'm thinking a trip to the vet is called for. Elsie got fleas a couple of years ago and apparently had an allergic reaction to them, not the medications but the fleas themselves. She has very fine, soft, pretty thin hair and I never saw her pulling it out, but in pretty short order she was bald from mid thorax to mid tail. Most pathetic thing you've ever seen. I think we had her on a medication for the allergy for a while, and then it was just a matter of waiting until the hair grew in. Of course, as soon as she was back to her normal looking self, she got a cat bite on her hind end that just got horribly infected (one of those things we didn't see until it ... got really gross) and she ended up with a shaved backside yet again. She was one sorry looking cat for about a year. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p></p><p>I'd also be concerned about a possible secondary skin infection, especially since apparently cat wounds don't act like human ones - they fester underneath the skin without any obvious signs ... until they become *really* obvious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 342810, member: 8"] Susie - I'm thinking a trip to the vet is called for. Elsie got fleas a couple of years ago and apparently had an allergic reaction to them, not the medications but the fleas themselves. She has very fine, soft, pretty thin hair and I never saw her pulling it out, but in pretty short order she was bald from mid thorax to mid tail. Most pathetic thing you've ever seen. I think we had her on a medication for the allergy for a while, and then it was just a matter of waiting until the hair grew in. Of course, as soon as she was back to her normal looking self, she got a cat bite on her hind end that just got horribly infected (one of those things we didn't see until it ... got really gross) and she ended up with a shaved backside yet again. She was one sorry looking cat for about a year. ;) I'd also be concerned about a possible secondary skin infection, especially since apparently cat wounds don't act like human ones - they fester underneath the skin without any obvious signs ... until they become *really* obvious. [/QUOTE]
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