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Speaker 2: I'm doctor Jeff Werber, your host for the next half

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Speaker 3: On the line?

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Speaker 4: Yes, good, thank you Frida?

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Speaker 3: Where you're calling Flida Florida? Okay, go ahead, all right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead. We have a new Border Collie pop

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mixed uh huh, and she jumps a lot, and I

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wanted to know what the best way to you know,

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when we come home and she jumps up on us,

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what the best way is to discourage that?

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Speaker 2: Okay, first of all, congratulations of getting a new pup

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and border colligues. Just so you know, I hope you're

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really smart, Freda, because they are one of the smartest

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dogs on the planet, So I hope she doesn't outsmart you.

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Speaker 3: But because they are really great, and.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's one of the few breeds and this

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is sort of estimated with a lot of the.

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Speaker 3: Hurting breeds that you know.

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Speaker 2: Typically if you have a dog, let's say, I have labradors,

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and they're you know, obviously very smart, very trainable, but

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they know what they know and if you taught them something,

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they're going to know it. What's interesting about the herting

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dogs is they have the knowledge from what they learn,

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but if they are faced with the situation that they've

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never seen before, they seem to be able to draw

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from that which they do know and make a choice,

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and often the right choice. It's almost like they have

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this ability to extrapolate, disability to deduce based on the

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knowledge that they have. So they are just it's a

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fascinating breed and they're so cute and you're gonna have

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hopefully a lot of fun with this one. So as

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far as jumping, the thing with jumping is that you

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don't want to make it like it's such a bad

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thing in the sense that they're happy to see you.

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I think it's great they should be, but we don't

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want to encourage it because if their small children. So

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what you want to do the old school was, and

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I'm sure you've heard this before, is you stick your

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knee up in their chest. Okay, I'm not a huge fan.

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I think there's two better ways to do it. Number One,

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dogs are very good, especially when they're on their hind

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feet because they've jumped up so they're obviously on their

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hind feet. They can actually walk forward fairly well. But

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they don't do such a great job working backwards. So

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when you have a dog that's jumping up on you,

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you should go forward rather quickly. Okay, they don't.

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Speaker 3: Want to fall home.

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Speaker 2: They don't want to fall backwards on their behinds, right,

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so they're going to jump off. Now, whenever you put

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a dog in a position that is uncomfortable for them,

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they typically aren't going to want to repeat that behavior.

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and you teach your kids and whoever, just walk forward

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really fast. She might take a hop or two backward,

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and after that she's going to say, the heck with this,

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she's no fun. Yes, And the other thing you can

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do is whenever you see it, you can if you

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see it in the process.

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Speaker 3: Keep going backwards.

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Speaker 2: Yourself before she links onto before she attaches to you,

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and that way she'll miss the target every time she'll stop.

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a dog who's really bad and they have a tendency

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even with this in a sit to want to jump,

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is you have their leash on their training leash. Okay,

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you want to step on it, just at the point

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where the highest their head can get off the ground

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is when they're naturally sitting.

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Speaker 3: But anything above that they can't.

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Speaker 2: They're like stuck to the ground because you're stepping on

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the leash at that two and a half foot part. Okay,

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so did you follow, So you're giving break, no play,

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no play at all. It's like you're going to see

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where how much where you the least needs to be

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when they're at a sit, and that's where you step

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on it. They're glued at that point. They can go lower,

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but they cannot go higher. And uh. And the last

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thing you can do is always when these are all

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the things to stop them from exhibiting the behavior.

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Speaker 3: Now we have to make.

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Speaker 2: Sure they know that you appreciate the fact that they

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are behaving well. And they're no longer jumping or stop,

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so always ask them to do something where they can

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earn their praise, like just a simple sit or stay,

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and then give them a good pat on the head,

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maybe a little tidbit of a treat, and let them

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know how thrilled you are that they are not jumping.

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So it's not just stopping the negative behavior, it's you

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want to record the fact that they're no longer exhibiting

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that negative behavior.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, fantastic. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: You're very welcome.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening, and if you can hang on or

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you can call back after our show, talk to Mark RP.

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We're going to get you information and we are going

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to send you out something.

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Speaker 3: For puppy for your new border callie.

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Speaker 2: What's her name by the way, Penny Penny, so Penny

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will get a little treat on our behalf here and

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ask the vets with the doctor Jeff on Petlife Radio.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, Freida, anytime you need to call in,

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you're going to hopefully have a bunch of training questions

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and the house training and all this stuff as you

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go through this puppy hook stage, which by the way,

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as we all know, is probably the most challenging, including

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the chewing. Please give us a call back. Feel free

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to call and.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about it.

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Speaker 4: Okay, great, thank you, Okay.

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Speaker 3: Thanks a lot.

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Speaker 2: So last week on the show, we touched upon some

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things that we were going to I wanted to address.

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We got a little sidetrack as we ended up started

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discussing all of well not all, but many of the

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household poisons.

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Speaker 3: And we're going to talk some more about that.

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Speaker 2: One of our future guests on the show is a

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good friend of mine, doctor Justine Lee, who is a

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double board certified in both veterinary toxicology and veterinary Emergency

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Medicine critical care, and we're going to talk to her

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about some of the many things around the house that

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our pets seem to get into that have a toxic effect,

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and what we need to do, how we need to

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handle them, which ones might you be able to do

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something at home? And Seasonal allergies are something that it's

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called that seasonally because there is definitely a seasonality to

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what we see affecting our dogs and cats, mostly our dogs.

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And what's interesting is that with dogs especially, and this

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does not hold true with cats. Which makes the challenge

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of it greater when dealing with cats is we can

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often tell by the location of allsion on a dog's

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body what the culprit may be, sometimes even what the

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culprit is, but at least what it may be, So

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there are clues when we examine that dog. We look

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at the dog and I can tell a client, well,

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this is exe or a why allergy?

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Speaker 3: And they go, how do you know?

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Speaker 2: I said, because the look where the lesions are. So

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let me be more specific. Now, understand, a pet who's allergic,

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more likely than not, is a allergic to more than

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just one thing. So basically there's going to be overlap.

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biggest allergens affecting our pets are those that are inhaled.

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We call that atopy. Atopy is inhaled allergies. Now, as

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we all know for us, what happens if we have

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hate fever as I did as a kid, and I

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inhale a pollen that I'm allergic to. What are my

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symptoms typically going to be? They're going to be respiratory,

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I'm going to get that snotty nose, I'm going to

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get stuffy. I'm gonna sneeze, I'm going to cough possibly

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so that scratchy throat. Anyone who's had it you know

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what I'm talking about. And that's how we typically react

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to these allergens. And our dogs are pets. It's different,

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not to say they can't have a sneeze from the

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actual irritation of that pollen, those particles that they're inhaling,

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but that's not typically going to be the manifestation of

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their allergic disease. What is that manifestation going to be.

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It's going to be skin problems. They are going to scratch,

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They are going to scratch themselves raw. They are going

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to create such a problem that the staff epidermitis the

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normal bacteria living on a dog's body, is going to

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become an opportunist and pathology. So it's going to actually

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start creating a problem. And before this it lived fine,

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totally at peace on the dog with the dog. So

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there's going to be scratching, there's irritation, there's going to

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be sores, redness we call pustules, which are little pimples.

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Ere Athema is the redness we are going to see

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colaretes or target lesions.

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Speaker 3: There are so many.

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Speaker 2: Problems and typically, again, where are they going to appear,

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pretty much on the underside of their bodies, inside, in

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the backs of their thighs, and maybe also some of

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their ears. They might have an ear problem associated with allergy. Now,

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what happens when you see that dog and I'm sure

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you've seen them wherever you are, especially this time of year,

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that has crusts and missing a lot of hair or

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very thinning hair at their rump, their lower back just

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above the tail, going up about four to five inches,

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and they're you know, they're stopping and they're scratching, they're

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turning around. And when I see that, am I thinking

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pollen as my number one source of allergen? And the

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answer is no, because in that area, clearly in a dog,

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it's gonna be fleas. So it is fleas until proven otherwise.

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I'm going to examine that dog. I'm going to be

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looking not just for live fleas, because hopefully the owner

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has this pet on some sort of flea control and

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we're not seeing a lot of flat life fleas, but

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what I'm going to see, I'm going to see, hopefully

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what we call flea dirt. Flea dirt is the flea excrement,

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which basically is, here's the gross part dried blood. At

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whose dried blood? Your dog's dried blood? So so much

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so that when we see these dogs that have just

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a horrendous flea load a lot of this crust, and

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it feels it looks like pepper almost, And you put

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him in the tub and the water coming off of

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this dog is literally red. It is the grossest thing

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you can imagine. And you can also imagine how uncomfortable

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this poor dog was to have this many fleas on

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him or her that the body's turning red when you

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wash it off.

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Speaker 3: It's disgusting.

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Speaker 2: So so there are again this is you know, I

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always joke when a dog comes in and he doesn't

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follow these rules, or he's he's got fleas, but he's

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or he's got no fleas and he's got leasions on

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the back, and I say, wait a second, that's not

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I always joke.

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Speaker 3: We read the book, but the dogs didn't read the book.

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Speaker 2: They don't know exactly where they're supposed to manifest their allergies.

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So sure there's overlap. It could happen anywhere, but it

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just gives us the starting point. Now, what about that dog,

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he is chewing his feet like crazy. You can actually

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see the saliva stain on his feet.

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Speaker 3: He is rubbing his face.

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wall and rub his face. And also often because of

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Speaker 3: So what am I thinking?

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lower back, the backside on the top of the dog.

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inside thighs in the inguinal area we call that, and

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that's the pollen, the inhaled pollen problem. And of course,

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by the way, it also could be something more topical

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in the sense that we have a contact dermatitis. Sometimes

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dogs lie down if they lie down on a carpet

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that was just treated with some sort of carpet cleaner,

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and they are sensitive to that carpet cleaner. We can

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see that problem as well. But what about the fate

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the feet, the face, and the ears.

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Speaker 3: What am I thinking?

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking food allergy. So just as insane as an

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inhaled allergen doesn't typically present with respiratory problems.

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't you know it that.

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Speaker 2: A food allergy clearly doesn't necessarily, in fact hardly ever

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present with an intestinal problem. It's not like they get diarrhea,

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it's not like they get they vomit. When they are

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allergic to foods, they also scratch. So these poor dogs,

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no matter what the allergen, pretty much they are going

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to scratch, whether it's inhaled, whether it's flea, whether it's food,

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whether it's contact. They're just plumb out of luck. So again,

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now it's time to start evaluating what to do about food.

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Speaker 2: Com and welcome back to at Life Radios. As the Doctor, Jeff,

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I am your host, Doctor Jeff Werber, And before the break,

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we were talking about allergies and how huge a problem

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it is this time of year and how complicated it

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could be because of the various manifestations of allergens where

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they are in the body might give us some clues

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as to what the main culprit might be. But of course,

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as overlap and I continue to allude to cats and

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how they are really a challenge. Why because cats don't

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give us the luxury of the source of the allergen

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based on their presentation. In other words, a cat can

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be allergic to any of the things we talked about,

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whether it's food, whether it's the inhaled allergens, the pollens,

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the weeds, the grasses, whether it's fleas, and they will

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present any way of all of these or a combination thereof,

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and their condition they often present with is called miliary dermatitis.

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They have these little scabs and sores and thickened skin

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and very uncomfortable, very itchy. But their the location of

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their lesions gives us no clue necessarily to which of

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the various potential allergens can be affecting them, So it

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makes us more difficult for cat. The good news is

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and when he gets treatment in a minute, cats respond

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pretty much the same the same treatment. They respond very well,

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so they're a little easier for us to deal with,

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to treat So before the break, we just started talking

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about the different food possibilities food allergies, and how even

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though a dog or cat might be allergic food, that

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manifestation of this allergy is via skin. So and typically

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they're going to do a lot of foot licking, a

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lot of face rubbing, and a lot of ear scratching. Now,

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mind you, if you remember we talked about the pollens,

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they will also go after their ears, So there is

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going to be some overlap feet.

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Speaker 3: How about the.

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Speaker 2: Dog who is continually walking outside on grass or something

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some surface that there is a contact sensitivity. Of course,

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they're going to look at their feet. So you're going

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to say to you the way second, is this food

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looking at the feet? Or is this contact the allergy

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of looking at the feet, or is it a weird

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manifestation of inhaled allergies? So understand, it's not a slam

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dunk by any means, but it gives us some clues.

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at least, in other words, the cause of the problem

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for any of the allergens is going to be fleas.

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flea dirt, preferably the location of the lesions at the

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lower back, and you're going to say, oh, flea allergy.

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Let's work to control the flea allergy. And for that

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there are many many good things you can do. You

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need to speak with your veterinarian. A lot of products

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out there, some I like, some I'm not so thrilled about,

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but you want to check with your vet start with some.

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we need to obviously ConTroll the fleas, and there's some

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great oral products out there. There's some really good spot

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on products out there, and as I mentioned, there are

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some products out there that I do not recommend. They

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are using old technology. One of them out there the

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experts might be actually seeing resistance. But the bottom line

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is check with your veterinarian.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: There are also now, as I mentioned, because of the

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initial allergy and the scratching and the irritation and the erythema,

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the redness and the thickness, the skin's natural body defenses

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all right are now compromised. So normal bacteria that typically

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have not created a problem for a dog skin are

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now creating a problem. So need to control the actual

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symptoms before us, meaning we have to control the redness,

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we have to control the secondary bacterial infection, we have

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to try to control the actual allergic disease. And again

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for that, clearly bathing very important. Any type of emolience

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or things that you can apply topically to soothe the skin,

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antihistamines topically might help. How about, obviously, antibiotics to control

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the secondary infection. Where we get into some discussion and

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some problems is that since histamine is not a major

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player of the canine allergic response, antihistamines are not going

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to be really effective.

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Speaker 3: In fact, it's.

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Speaker 2: Estimated that maybe up to maybe twenty percent of the

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entire allergic response might be histamine mediated. It's usually less

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than that. So you're not gonna shouldn't expect the same

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result by giving a dog antihistamine to treat their allergy

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as you would us taking any histamines to treat ours,

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because histamine is a major player in the symptoms, the manifestations.

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Speaker 3: Of our allergic disease. So what does that leave us with?

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Speaker 2: Well, I still don't mind antihistamines, especially the old fashioned ones,

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the chlorophin aeromines, the diphenhydromenes, because they do have a

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mild sedative effect, so we might not get the actual

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true anti allergy effect. But you know what, they are miserable,

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scratching like this. If we give them something it just

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chills them out a little bit, calms them down, that

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would be good. Then we have to therefore resort to

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a broad spectrum class of anti allergy anti IT medications,

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and that leads us to the corticosteroids medications, drugs that

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we really don't love using. What I often say about steroids,

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probably one of the number one drugs that we use

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in vernam medicine, so it's the number one used drug,

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or certainly one of them, but also unfortunately one of

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the top abused drugs in veternam medicine. Because we need

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to respect the drug itself, we need to respect its

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side effects. We need to pay close attention to are

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we using it properly? Are we using them safely? And

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for that you really need to work closely with your veterinarian.

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I see a lot of problems not just with the

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initial disease, but with the treatment as well. There are

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some new medicare there is a new medication out there.

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I will be able to talk more about it when

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it becomes much more available. It is out there now,

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but very difficult to find, and I don't want to

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tease you at all about how.

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Speaker 3: Phenomenal this particular drug is.

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Speaker 2: If you're lucky enough to have a veterinarian who has

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a stash, has a supply, and you have a pet

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that has severe allergy, then you might want to ask

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your vet about that new drug for itching, because don't

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feel badly if they don't have it, because it's just

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it's not out there yet in enough numbers to satisfy

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all the pets that need it. But when it's available,

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you will know about it and it is going to

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be a game changer for sure. So the flea allergies,

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take care of the fleas, treat the secondary problem. What

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about the pollens? I mean, come on, are we gonna

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put our pets in a plastic bubble? Of course not.

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So what are we gonna do? How do we treat

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and control the problem with allergies? Well, here's where you

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need to work closely with your veterinarian. We need to

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make a diagnosis. We need to find out just what

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your pet is allergic to. And there are some really

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good tests out there now. First of all, there are

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well typically in the past, the best test out there

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and still probably is the best, is the skin scratch tests,

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and these are typically done by board certified veterinary dermatologists

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and they are probably the most sensitive a test, which

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means they're probably going to be the most specific and

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accurate now of late in the last ten to fifteen years,

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blood tests measuring levels of IgE, the antibody that is

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most active when it comes to fighting allergies, and this

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is a test that a number of labs do.

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Speaker 3: It's not probably.

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Speaker 2: As a specific and effective and accurate as a scratch test,

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but the tests are being perfected and they're coming closer

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and closer, and they are well easier to give, they

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are less expensive, and I guess the real beauty is that,

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unlike the skin scratch test, that your pet has to

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be off of steroids for up to three weeks before

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the test, which means potentially three weeks of misery, even

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off of certain antibotics before the test, even off of

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antihistamine before the test, So you need to check with

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your veterinarian or the specialists, depending on the test that

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they use. So the issue is that you there is

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a period that these pets cannot be treated or treated

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in limited effect. So I think that there is a

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plus I think to the blood test, which we do

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a lot. But as I said, if you see a dermatologist,

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your veterinarian wants you to see a dermatologist, and they

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recommend because dermatogists can do the blood test as well,

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and they actually for whatever reason are recommending the scratch testing,

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the skin testing.

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Speaker 3: Then that's the way.

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Speaker 2: So what this test will do is come back and

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tell us with fairly strong likelihood seventy five eighty percent accuracy,

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what pollens, what allergens, what weeds, what grasses, what trees,

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what environmental allergens, whether it's wool or cotton or capoc

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or dand or I've had dogs come in they're allergic

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to cats and vice versa. So these are the results

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that we expect to get from these tests. Then the

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companies that are doing the test can actually make up

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a serum that you can give injections at home that

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will actually build up your pet's own immunity. Like as

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a kid, how I beat my hay fevers? I had

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allergy shots, and I mean when I went to bed school,

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I was still giving myself shots and I had tested

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positive for dogs, cats, horses, sheep, goats.

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Speaker 3: Cows, and hay. So I was a wreck.

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Speaker 2: But it worked and I'm not a wreck anymore and

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I'm not allergic to anything, which is amazing. I grew them,

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so I mean I was alerts of cats and now

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I have eight. So anyway, once the anigens, the solutions

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are made, and then there are a number of options

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as well to giving shots. And it is here that

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I'm going to leave you in suspense. We're going to

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pick this up next week and we're going to talk

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about the various ways to actually treat allergies once they

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are determined and identified. And we're also going to talk

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about probably the most difficult of all to treat, to

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even diagnose, and that's the food allergy. So thanks for

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joining us. I expect to hear from you. I want

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to thank Frieda for calling once again. Frida is going

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to get a free pro Sense product for her new puppy,

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Penny say that ten times fast and for.

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Speaker 3: A and a contoy. And we will be back.

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Speaker 2: Here next Sunday here on Catline Radio, Past the Bets

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with Doctor Jeff, have a great week.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk pets every week on demand only on Petlife Radio.

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