Vitamin and mineral efficiencies are responsible for skin changes, including dryness and scaliness.
Scaliness of the skin, which can look like dandruff, may simply be caused by dry skin.
Look out for scaliness that appears on moles or areas of the skin.
In animals, ringworm lesions are usually patchy areas of hair loss and scaliness.
variations in skin roughness and scaliness between age groups
Baths of sal ammoniac, two to six ounces to the bath are also valuable in removing the scaliness.
In this latter disease there is usually but slight scaliness, and rarely any scarring.
The scaliness is bran-like or flaky, of a dirty gray color, and, as a rule, less marked in the central portion; it is never abundant.
