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Written by Admin on 7 April A 2 year-old, neutered female Persian cat was referred to us with an 8 month history of facial dermatitis. This vaccinated cat lived in a house with 2 other cats and one dog. Other than the chronic skin disease, it had no history of medical problems. The skin condition first appeared around the age of 18 months, causing increasingly frequent facial lesions which eventually became chronic, with intermittent flare-ups. Daily local treatment was required, without which the cat would scratch intensively, further exacerbating the lesions. Corticosteroids appeared to have positive but transient effects.

Feline idiopathic facial dermatitis is a skin disease of cats which results in facial pruritus. There is no proven cause although an hereditary link has been proposed. Malassezia spp are often involved as a secondary yeast infection [1]. Idiopathic facial dermatitis in Persian cats is a well recognised disease. Persian and Himalayan cats are predisposed and affected cats show skin lesions similar to those seen in atopy , together with otitis externa and idiopathic progressive dermatitis localised on the face.

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