My cat has cuts under his chin. My vet said it was cat acne and we shouldn't use plastic bowls.?

Question

My cat has cuts under his chin. My vet said it was cat acne and we shouldn't use plastic bowls to feed him. I switched to metal and he still gets them. I am unsure what to do. He does not go outside. Where can he be getting these cuts from.

Answer 1

Acne in kitties can take some time to clear up, Hon. I had an all-white cat who used to get it; you were right to switch away from plastic bowls.
This is how I successfully cleared up Jack's acne; twice a day, I moistened a cotton ball with hydrogen peroxide, and applied it to the acne sores. It took two or three weeks, but it did eventually clear up and never returned...good luck!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Plastic can hold germs/odors more then you think. Plastic can cause some cats to develop acne (that's well known). I would toss the plastic bowls and get ceramic or stainless steel (which can be cleaned a lot better). I'm sure once you do that your cat will go back to drinking more often. Also you may want to consider using filtered or bottled water for drinking. Maybe something has changed in the tap water. I stopped using plastic bowls long time ago and we use Corella bowls for feeding and the dog has a very large ceramic bowl for water. In the past I have had acne problems in cats eating out of plastic. Since stopping that, none of my cats have had a problem.

Answer 4

He;s right about the plaxtic bowls but most likely the acne is from allergies and most likely you are feeding dry food


Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health
Contrary to what you may have heard, dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.
Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods.
The problems with it are that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process. Most of the moisture a cat needs is gotten
out of the food and 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Also, most use horrible ingredients and don't use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.
You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn't have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods.Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Please read about cat nutrition.
http://www.newdestiny.us/nutritionbasics.html
http://www.catinfo.org/feline_obesity.htm
http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm#Dry_Food_vs_Canned_Food.__Which_is_reall

Answer 5

NATURAL ACNE PROTOCOL
1/ Never, ever touch your face.
2/ Use 3 facecloths to wash your face, one to soap on, one to soap off with very hot water, one to rinse off with ice cold water, in that order, once a day.
3/ If you are under 18 take 5,000 IU of vitamin A once a day with a full meal
4/ If you are over 18 take 5,000 IU of vitamin A twice a day with a full meal.
Do not get pregnant while taking vitamin A. Do not take any more, like Accutane, it will stop you growing.
5/ Never, ever. pick, squeeze or pop your spot. Read number 1 again.
6/ Do this for 90 days.
7/ Invest in a brand new pillow and 2 new or more pillow cases to �double bag' your pillow. HOT wash every couple of days.
Source:
A bit of advice given to me as a teenager, a bit of science as I am studying allergic reactions and vitamin A is a part of that. A bit of research: I sat in a lecture at the back and watched the acne prone pick at their faces, those with the worse acne touched their faces 32 times in an hour, the clearest complexions didn't touch their faces even once. I have circumstantial evidence that acne is the result of dermatophyte transfer from hands to face...where it does not get washed off and is well fed by hormones, sweat a
nd oil...just a hypothesis... But it would explain why vitamin A is so effective as vitamin causes skin to remove dermatophytes.

The secret is never to touch the spots

Tips on how to treat acne and achieve perfect clear skin in as little as 7 days?

Answer 6

My cat had scratches under her chin too, but she like had a bad itch there that it just got worse and stuff. it could be acne from greese/oils rubbing on tha plastic but since you changed his bowls then It isnt acne just put some neosporin on tha cut he prolyl won't like it and will try to lick it off (witch is fine won't harm him if he doesn't lick alot) but just put it on him 2 times a day and I'm sure it might clear up.

Answer 7

I don't think the bowls have anything to do with it. Have you checked your kitty's back claws? It could be that he is itching and is cutting himself trying to scratch.

Check your kitty's food and make sure he isn't allergic, and that it isn't somehow deficient in oils and nutrients. Also ask about skin conditions. You might even want an Elizabethan collar to stop him from scratching until he heals- though he won't like it.

Good luck!

Answer 8

Maybe it will take awhile for the itching to stop and then he will stop scratching and have cuts. I had to switch my cats bowl also. It did take a few weeks to clear up I think.

Answer 9

probably from scratching and if not try and find a little squishy thing to put over the bowl were his chin toucher hope it helps=)

Answer 10

hmm.. people and animals can have allergies to plastic and metal. try getting a ceramic one with a smooth edged rim. if possible find one with hypoallergenic coating.