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Dr. Karen Becker discusses the causes, treatment and prevention of a common health problem in dogs – hot spots.  Visit the Pet Video Library Hot spots are also known as pyotraumatic dermatitis or superficial pyoderma. Those tongue-twisters are just scientific labels for inflamed, infected skin. How Hot Spots Develop Hot spots are created when your dog’s natural bacteria overpopulates parts of his skin. When an infection arises from a dog’s own bacteria, th …