How to effectively treat and prevent calluses in your dog
Lying calluses are often also called bed sores. They are widespread in dogs and primarily affect very large breeds, which by nature carry a high weight. Apart from that, couch calluses can occur more often, especially in overweight dogs.
In the following, you will find out exactly how couch calluses develop in dogs and what options are available to you for treatment and prevention.
How do calluses develop in dogs?
Lying calluses in dogs occur mainly on the hocks, elbows and sternum. This is because the bones there exert direct pressure on the skin of the quadruped.
Due to the excessive pressure load, hair loss initially occurs on these parts of the dog's body. Also, there is insufficient blood circulation in the skin there, which causes skin cells to die off increasingly with time.
To protect the dog's skin from calluses, a thick corneal layer forms in the affected areas. However, this quickly becomes cracked, so that bacteria can easily penetrate and cause skin inflammation. The cracks in the skin can also cause minor bleeding.
Unfortunately, most dog owners do not perceive the above-mentioned skin changes in their quadruped as a problem at first. However, to effectively treat and completely heal the dog's lying calluses, it is important to take countermeasures as early as possible. Otherwise, it is quite possible that permanent skin changes remain or that the dog's lying bumps even have to be surgically removed.
How can lying-down calluses in dogs be avoided?
Ideally, you should prevent calluses in your dog in advance. For this purpose, it is important to take the right preventive measures. This includes, among other things, providing a soft surface on which your dog can lie down.
A sleeping area with good padding allows a much more even distribution of pressure, especially with large and heavy dogs, which can relieve areas of the body that are particularly susceptible to calluses.
Apart from that, however, it is also important to avoid obesity. Because overweight increases the probability of the development of calluses significantly. In the long term, it also leads to numerous other health problems and promotes joint diseases, such as arthrosis in dogs.
Treating calluses in dogs with Bellfor
If your dog suffers from calluses, you must take care of effective treatment of the skin problems as soon as possible. To this end, we recommend that you use the appropriate natural food supplements and care products from the Bellfor range.
The following Bellfor products have been proven to be effective in the treatment of lying bumps in dogs:
- Bellfor Lying Calluses Ointment
- Bellfor Joints & Bones
- Bellfor Skin & Coat
Bellfor Calluses Ointment for dogs
Bellfor Lying Callus Ointment is a high-quality care product which we have developed especially for dogs with lying bumps. The ointment contains only natural ingredients, such as insect fat from the larvae of Hermetia illucens (black soldier flies), hyaluronic acid and beeswax.
With its special composition, Bellfor Lying Callus Ointment supports regeneration, counteracts cracks and helps to give the skin of your four-legged friend new elasticity. This makes the well-tolerated care product the ideal choice to effectively counteract couch calluses in your dog.
Bellfor joints & bones for dogs with recumbent bumps
Bellfor joints & bones capsules are a natural food supplement with the innovative active ingredient complex Ovopet. Ovopet is extracted from the eggshell membrane of hen's eggs and contains among other things hyaluronic acid.
Hyaluronic acid can store a lot of water and therefore helps to improve the elasticity of the skin in dogs suffering from calluses.
Bellfor skin & coat powder with valuable nutrients
Skin & Coat Powder is another natural food supplement from the Bellfor range. In addition to digestible insect protein as a source of high-quality amino acids, the powder contains various other selected ingredients that supply your dog's skin with valuable micronutrients.
In this way, Bellfor Skin & Coat can help to stimulate the formation of new hairs and new skin cells in the areas of the body affected by the calluses in your dog.
Our conclusion on the topic of calluses in dogs
As you can see, couch calluses in dogs are a very serious topic, which all too often is not considered further. Many dog owners do not recognize the lying down bumps in their dog or consider them to be a phenomenon that cannot be avoided.
However, there are ways to counteract calluses in dogs. In this context, a soft sleeping place, the avoidance of overweight as well as prompt treatment of existing lying bumps with the appropriate products from Bellfor are of decisive importance.
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