VCP 411: Medicine Section

TEMPERATURE AND ODEMA OF SKIN

Temperature

• The temperature of skin is felt extremities like limbs, pinna or lips. The normal animal have warm extremities whereas when animal is in shock where the peripheral circulation fails the extremities feel cold. If there is any inflammation there warmth will be more.

Odema

• The odema of the ski occurs because of gravity and tissue pressure. In dogs it occurs in the ventral aspect. The area when pitted remain pitted for some time. When there is inflammatory odema skin is warm and painful.