Speaker 1: I'm Doc Hitchie, Doctor Keith Ilok, i've veterinary allergist, and.
Speaker 2: I'm doctor Stephen Miller, a doctor of Nursing Practice and
a cute care nurse practitioner.
Speaker 1: We're here to discuss the most current medical treatments, in
health trends, and what is both right and wrong.
Speaker 2: Because being itchy is bitchy and the system sucks.
Speaker 1: What we discuss here is content only. We love you,
but we're not your doctors. Please consult someone who actually
knows your medical history. This segment is that clinic crawl,
so craziest, wackiest's, most interesting, happiest, saddest things that happened
to us this week.
Speaker 3: Are you ready, Doc Miller? Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: So at my clinics, I'm a veterinary allergist dermatologist, and
one of the big things that we do is we
have a system for allergic dogs and cat to come
in and we start with tier one, Tier two, tier three,
and over all the systems about ninety five percent successful. Right, Yeah, Okay,
So cats are not dogs, totally different. System can be
much easier, can be much harder. So we're talking about
kittie cat that came in and so our tier one
level therapy for allergic cats. They come in, they have
hair loss, they're itchy, scratchy, they have swollen these easyenophilic plaques,
ear infections, all of these allergic symptoms, and so we
make sure they don't have herpes virus, infections, loops, all
of that kind of stuff, so we know the cat's allergic.
Tier one is to put them on an isock's a xylane,
very safe, very all inclusive insect parasite prevention therapy. And
a lot of owners have inside only cats. So if
you had an inside only cat and I told you
to put it on flea control, what would you think
about that?
Speaker 3: Would you be happy? You'd probably think I'm crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, that would be challenging, and I'm just glad I'm
not a cat owner.
Speaker 3: Well that's another thing.
Speaker 1: So a lot of cat owners don't want to give
their cats medicines or poisons, and these are very safe products.
Speaker 3: That's another story.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so it turns out that even cats that
never go outside, like at cats in Arizona, New Mexico,
if they go outside they get eaten by a coyote.
We put them on one of these products. My favorite
product is Revolution plus. The plus part is Sora Lanner.
It's an is socks as eiling that prevents all biting insects,
transfer of spits or saliva, which is what the animal is.
Speaker 3: Actually allergic to.
Speaker 1: So Revolution plus and seventy percent of these cats that
never go outside improve with allergies. So we know that
something's biting them. Maybe mosquitoes or midges or noseums, but
some kind of biting insect, and they improve with once
a month very safe insect prevention. So these products are
labeled maybe for flea and tick, but they cover a
bunch of other things.
Speaker 3: Right, you got this? Yeah, okay, so we're going with
the system.
Speaker 1: So this kitty cat didn't really like the idea, and
we sent home a sample of this, and it turns
out that they chose not to administer it. So even
though it's our step one topical once a month very safe,
they chose not to do it. So they a few
months later they call in in a panic because their
kitty cat has vomited worms. So these round looking worms
came up in the cat's vomit.
Speaker 3: That's gross.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, so it turns out humans don't have a
lot of parasite. Did you have a lot of parasitology
courses in your medical nursing school, So a lot of
veterinary medicine is about parasites. So it turns out that
these intestinal worms part of their larval processes that they
have these little larva that migrate through tissues before it
goes to the intestine and forms worms, which this cat
peeked up and the cat came in. One of the
primary symptoms for this cat was coughing, and it turns
out that these worms have a larval stage that migrate
through the lung tissue.
Speaker 2: That's really gross.
Speaker 3: That's really gross.
Speaker 1: But so this coughing cat came in, we recommended parasite control.
That the owner declined and they call in a panic
because the cat threw up what parasites. So if we
had simply administered our really safe, all inclusive, once a
month parasite prevention, we could have treated the cough that
may likely be caused by the larval migrants of the
roundworms in the intestine.
Speaker 2: So you're speaking to compliance, Yes, recommend it, and just
crazy gross that like this allergic cat comes in coughing
and it's not allergic at all.
Speaker 3: It just has parasites.
Speaker 1: But our level one strategy of giving an anti parasitic
makes sense because if they gave it, it would have
stopped coughing because we would have killed the parasites. So
crazy vomiting worm allergy symptom. That's not allergy story. That's
my story that happened to me this week. Oh okay,
what you.
Speaker 3: Got people don't.
Speaker 2: And cardiovascular disease is the number one leading cause of
death in the United States, and so sometimes you get
called into a situation where you have to do CPR.
The problem is that only about eighteen percent of the
US population are currently up to date on CPR, and
the renewal annually is about two to three percent. So
I think I would only say, because of the need
for being updated on CPR, that people definitely contact the
American Red Cross and get into a CPR class because
I see this every day and my job is to
try to help empower families to save lives, and especially
if you're living with a family member who is at risk,
and so just get in touch with American Red Cross
or American Heart Association and get your CPR certification.
Speaker 1: Get certified. So I'm not certified, Yeah, Yeah, that's not good.
Bad on the well, I'm.
Speaker 2: In your husband works in cardiology.
Speaker 1: I'm a provider, a doctor. I'm a doctor. I think
that what I learned in ventary medicine can apply to humans,
and I could do CPR on a human.
Speaker 2: What do you think everybody can do CPR? I can
smash on someone's chest, everyone can do CPR, and everyone
can be trained with proper training, and the classes are
not lengthy and not costly and readily available in almost
every city, And so I would just encourage every person
to seek CPR classes, and I.
Speaker 1: Would at the point of my question was that I'm
medically trained very extensively, and dogs are not people, and
I can do CPR on a dog, but that does
not mean I know exactly how to do CPR.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely no. Getting a proper class is important.
Speaker 1: And watching it on youtubeer TikTok is also not the
way to do it now, and that's not certification.
Speaker 3: So doctor TikTok is not a thing.
Speaker 2: American Red Cross or American Heart Association offers really inexpensive
and great classes for the general public.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you probably have grandparents that are in that age,
so you need to go get certified. All right, We'll
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