DeucesMomma said:
The bumps had almost disappeared late yesterday afternoon but came back in full force in the evening .
A Boxer of a friend of mine has the same symptoms lately.At the last week she gets bumps that after hours become pimpls that "come and gone"
Usually she get bumps in the morning then the bumps disappear and come back in the evening
My friend doesn't know what is it and i found this on a site.....
Causes of Folliculitis
It is rare for folliculitis to occur without some sort of triggering
factors. Allergies are the most common triggers. Studies have shown
that with allergies there is an increase in total numbers of normal
bacterial and yeast inhabitants of the skin. Therefore, if
conditions are favorable for growth, there are more organisms
already available to cause infection than there would be under
healthier skin conditions. In addition, the allergic reaction itself
causes pruritus (itchiness), which stimulates the dog to lick,
scratch, or rub the skin, physically traumatizing the skin and hair
follicles and making both more susceptible to infection. Add
moisture from saliva (licking) or from seeping areas of inflammed
skin, plus perhaps some excess skin oils and scaly debris and you
have the perfect breeding ground for both bacteria and yeast. Other
conditions that promote folliculitis are excess moisure, skin oils,
and bacteria trapped against the skin by a dense hair coat or folds
of skin; and "old" hair left trapped in hair follicles because of
inadequate shedding (from insufficient grooming). Once folliculitis
occurs, it is difficult for the body to correct the situation
without the addition of both antibiotics and topical treatments.
How Folliculitis can mimic allergies
The trouble with folliculitis is that it is often very difficult to
detect unless it is severe. Each hair follicle is quite
inconspicuous and, even when many hair follicles are affected, only
careful examination by sight and touch can reveal that there is a
problem. Some clues to folliculitis are the signs that it has "come
and gone" in some of the hair follicles: small patches of hair loss,
hairs or clumps of hairs that fall out with small scabs attached, or
subtle bumps or irregularities in the skin under the hair. The
reason that folliculitis is often confused with allergies is that
folliculitis can be pruritic all by itself, as are allergies.
Because folliculitis often occurs simultaneously with allergy
problems or shortly thereafter, as a secondary problem, it is easy
to forget the folliculitis and just to treat the symptoms of
allergies. When dogs with folliculitis are put on Prednisone or
given some other steroid to control allergic symptoms, the
folliculitis often gets worse and may develop into a wide-spread or
deep infection. Steroids change the skin cell replacement cycle,
causing plugging up of hair follicles and suppressing the skin's
natural resistance to infection.
