Bulldogs & French Bulldogs
PREVENT & TREAT
Bulldogs and French Bulldogs are prone to a wide range of painful and debilitating breed-related medical conditions. Most can be prevented and safely treated at your home, at a minimal cost.
The corkscrew's tight-folded tail traps moisture. The damp tail pocket and moist folds provide an ideal breeding ground for yeast and bacteria organisms.
Painful smelly irritated, inflamed, red, moist, or ulcerated, some might have draining tracts. Due to itch, discomfort, and pain might be rubbing, biting, and dragging against other objects.
Moisture trapped in the nasal and facial folds provides an ideal breeding ground for yeast and bacteria
Red, productive, moist, smelly, discolored, and inflamed nasal and/or facial folds, itching, pawing, pain, and discomfort are not uncommon.
Bulldog tearstains are due to a red blood cell (RBC) by-product called “porphyrin" which is excreted in tears and saliva and activated when exposed to light. Also, tear overproduction or drainage issues will cause excessive tearing.
Unsightly, wet, reddish, tear stains are discoloration of skin areas that are in direct contact with your bulldog tears and saliva. Common locations are the face and paws/legs.
Bulldog Paw Skinfolds Dermatitis is often due to allergies as well as the bulldog paw anatomy and its folded damped skinfold. It often includes a mix of bacteria and yeast infections.
Itchy, licking, chewing, red, discolored inflamed, painful swollen paw(s). Limping and favoring that paw and leg is not uncommon.
The moisture trapped in the vaginal folds and hood provides ideal conditions for yeast and bacteria infections that can travel up the urinary tract to the bladder.
Chronic recurrent UTI, red, inflamed, infected, moist smelly irritated, sticky vaginal folds and/or hood. Rubbing, scooting, biting the back end.
Bulldog interdigital cysts seen in the interdigital web space are usually due to your bulldog's bristly short hair traumatic implantation and inward growth during movement. Skinfold moist dermatitis, allergies, and obesity will compound the problem.
Red oozy swollen red bumps between your bulldog toes. They can be painful, your bully might limp, and the infected inflamed cyst might rupture, bleed, and get infected.
Your bulldog’s anal glands are embedded in the anus muscles at 5 and 7 o'clock, thus not readily visible. Each one of the pairs has its own glandular sac and attached ducts that normally empty into the rectum during defecation.
The anal gland's most common problem is impaction, which causes itching, scooting, and pasty, pungent, oily discharge. Anal gland-infected abscesses present as a large, red, swollen gland that often ruptures and leaks bloody discharge.
