It's never good when the vet says, 'I’ve never seen that before'. I took Baby Cat back to the doctor after just over a week of using some scrub on his chin to try to eradicate these large black, greasy scales that were forming. It was originally diagnosed as 'cat chin acne'. Google it. It’s a peach.The wash was doing nothing and the fur on his chin started to fall out in crusty, itchy clumps and he was scratching a lot. He eats and drinks out of glass dishes (plastic is a bacteria farm) that get washed after each meal, and his kitty bed gets fresh linens daily! Well, I brought him back to the vet yesterday, and she was perplexed. She did a skin scraping to check for mites (which came up negative) and is running a ringworm culture, though the symptoms don't mimic ringworm, nor do they mimic food allergy symptoms. When viewing the fur under the microscope she was puzzled to find the protein chains looking like a rare dog condition where all the fur falls out. Not fatal, but all the hair just falls out. Forever. Great. Yesterday, when I left she was calling some Texas national dermatological lab to 'pick their brains on what it might be'. She even took pics of his chin.
She most likely suspects a severe staph infection, so he is on strong antibiotics and has a topical antibacterial/antifungal gel for his chin. Hopefully that will work, and that’s that. If it doesn’t work, we'll need to do a skin biopsy and send it to that special lab.
Otherwise, he is healthy, happy and fine, and seems minimally bothered by it.
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