Kitty with dry skin/dandruff

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Paige - 01 Jul 2004 23:03 GMT

Does anyone know if anything that can help with dry/flaky skin on a cat?
She is currently eating Science Diet sensitive skin and it's helped a little
but she's still dry.

Seems to have this dry skin since she started having allergies a year ago.
Does the allergies have anything to do with the dry skin?

Thanks,
Paige

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Laura R. - 02 Jul 2004 00:20 GMT

circa Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:03:50 GMT, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav,
Paige (kschoppe@hotmail.com) said,

> Does anyone know if anything that can help with dry/flaky skin on a cat?
> She is currently eating Science Diet sensitive skin and it's helped a little
> but she's still dry.

Some people add oils to their cats' diets to assist with this; you
may want to consider some omega3 fish oil as it's good for her,
anyway.

> Seems to have this dry skin since she started having allergies a year ago.
> Does the allergies have anything to do with the dry skin?

As a person with allergies, I can give a very definitive "yes".
Allergies most *definitely* affect the skin.

Laura

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.oO rach Oo. - 02 Jul 2004 01:29 GMT

My cat had that for a while and the vet suggested a few drops of flax seed
oil in her food. That and a good brushing each day.

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> Does anyone know if anything that can help with dry/flaky skin on a cat?
> She is currently eating Science Diet sensitive skin and it's helped a little
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> Thanks,
> Paige

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Paige - 03 Jul 2004 22:44 GMT

Thanks guys. So I guess her dry skin is the allergies. Can steroid shots
cause dry skin?

Paige

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Cheryl - 04 Jul 2004 00:41 GMT

In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.health+behav", "Paige"
<kschoppe@hotmail.com> artfully composed this message within
<news:TMFFc.4773$oD3.2920@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> on 03
Jul 2004:

> Thanks guys. So I guess her dry skin is the allergies. Can
> steroid shots cause dry skin?

As a meowmie with two cats who get steroids (one on prednisone every
other day for nearly 2 years, one who gets depo medrol shots as
needed for the past 2 years) I've never seen it cause dry skin.

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Paige - 04 Jul 2004 16:01 GMT

Ok I guess then the dry skin is from allergies. Thanks, I just wanted to
ask because she has been getting depomedrol shots every 12 weeks for the
last year.

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