Nutritional Skin Disorders - Donkey
In spite of severe nutritional deprivation, the donkey’s skin remains
remarkably healthy unless there is concurrent trauma. The combination
of trauma (especially recurrent injury) and malnutrition is probably one of
the most significant combinations with respect to the health of the skin.
A nutritionally deprived donkey becomes liable to parasitic (lice, mites and
Habronema spp.) and bacterial infections. Dermatophilosis is a common isolate in damaged or inflamed skin but it is difficult to know if this is
primary or secondary and certainly in the face of nutritional deprivation
the severity of the infection can be far worse.
References
- Knottenbelt, D. (2008) Skin disorders In Svendsen, E.D., Duncan, J. and Hadrill, D. (2008) The Professional Handbook of the Donkey, 4th edition, Whittet Books, Chapter 8
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