Hello guys,
I was wondering if anyone knows what my dog has on his nose? Nikon has had this for about 3-4 weeks now. He is usually out doors when I am at school. Then I started to notice his nose all pink and burnt!!! I took him to the vet and he was prescribed Prenisone 20.
I also bought an ez up canopy to give extra shade from the sun in the backyard and purchased some sensitive skin sunblock and placed it on his nose when i went to school. this as seemed to have worked and he got some black back on the tip of his nose up until about 3 days ago.
If you notice on the back of the nose there is a slight discoloration, it seems to be growing.
Does anyone have an idea what this could be? I plan to take him to the vet this weekend.
Thank you,
Ryan
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"Ringworm" was just a wild speculation. Treatable fungus, I believe.
It does sorta look like a burn. Consider chemical burns. Could he have gotten into anything caustic, like lime (I heard once about football players getting chemical burns when the lines were accidentally marked with slaked lime instead of chalk)? Why only on top of his nose, not all over his face?
Don't worry about cancer until you see the vet (I don't think cancer appears so suddenly).
You meant 'prednisone', corticosteroid anti-inflammatory -- topical ointment or tablet? Would that be good or bad for a healing burn?
Is he in a fenced yard? Think about how he might have encountered a heat or chemical burn. Did he learn about hot barbecues the hard way?
I live in Yuma, AZ and during the summer we go to the river for 3 to 4 hours at a time. I get sun burned when I forget to put on sunscreen and of course, I forget to put it on Kiba on those days too so his nose gets red...also a little hard to put sunscreen on him when he licks it off right away or is already wet from sticking his face in the water. He doesn't have a fun black nose and he has allergies and is recovering from Demodex, so his nose was pretty bare. Even after a week of us getting sun burnt, his nose has never looked Nikon's.
how many applications of sunscreen do you use a day? His so cute! I want Nikon to have his black lil nose back. :(
i see that the pink can go up the nose, i just pray that this not happening to Nikon.
Most corgis seem to have an irregular pale patch on their snout. I've always been curious about that. I've thought about putting sunscreen on it, but never have.
I don't think my dogs have ever had sunburn issues, despite some long days in hot sun on mountain snow, but I spoke with a white dog's owner who said her dog did get sunburned -- perhaps the white areas on dogs with thin coats are like pale blonde human skin.
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