A hot spot is any area of skin that is red or even pink.

It's usually  warm to the touch and moist to wet, sometimes there is blood and pus.

If you can remove all the hair around the hot spot, treating it will be much simpler.

Wash the area with anti-bacterial oatmeal shampo, being gentle because these sores hurt

•     Keep on hand (these are kept in a box with all my dogs supplies)

•     Blunt nosed Scissors that you can buy online

•     Flannel rags.  I always keep my old sheets and keep them for my dogs

•     2% hydrogen peroxide   

•     Oatmeal bath, will keep the itch down

•     Panalog or Dermvet ointment

•     Sport bandages

•     Q tips

•     Strong adhesive tape

•     Sports wrap

If you have hair clippers, shave down the hair so you can see all the spots. 

At this time I would either dab all the spots with hydrogen peroxide or give your dog the oatmeal bath.

After the bath, apply Panalog to each spot.  I usually do this just before bedtime when they want to sleep and not lick anymore.  If they still want to lick the medicine off, an Elizabethan collar works.  They might not like it but it works.

If the hot spots are on the paw of leg I apply the ointment and cover it with guaze.  Non stick is best.  Then I wrap it in Sports wrap.  Then I get the adhesive tape and go around the paw.  My dog doesn't mind this and has slept all night without pulling it off.  You can get this at any sporting goods store or your local drug store.

 

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