Avaliação de pH cutâneo de cães da raça Shih Tzu com dermatite atópica

• Autor(a) principal: Joly, Germana Slomski
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Universitário da Ânima (RUNA)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.animaeducacao.com.br/handle/ANIMA/12714
• topic: Piodermite; Pele alcalina; Barreira da pele

Canine atopic dermatitis (CAD) is an inflammatory dermatosis that leads to a de-ficiency in the skin barrier making it prone to pruritus and secondary infections. Increased cutaneous pH contributes to epithelial inflammation, enhancing changes in CAD. The purpose of this study is to measure the values of cutaneous pH at 18 different anatomic areas of the dog breed Shih Tzu diagnosed with CAD. During the study, 24 dogs were evaluated, 14 fe-males and 10 males. The selected dogs ranged between 1 and 10 years. Portable skin pH-meter was used as a tool to determine the pH value. The following parameters were evaluated: different body parts of females, males, castrated/intact. The comparative analysis of the body parts of females and males presented alkaline mean result for both groups in the perioral region with pH of 7.18 in females and 7.69 in males, that presented significantly differing statistics (p<0.0001). In the evaluation of the parameters female versus male and castrated versus intact, there were no statistical difference (p> 0.9999). In the comparison between castrated and in-tact body parts, the highest values were likewise found in the perioral region, with significant-ly differing statistics (p<0.0001) with a mean pH of 7.38 in the castrated and 7.43 in the in-tact. Nonetheless in this study not all anatomic regions evaluated presented alkaline pH values with no significantly differing statistics in dogs with CAD. Due to the complexity of the syn-drome and that several other associated factors could influence the etiopathogeny of the dis-ease, further investigation and studies on this subject are necessary.