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Speaker 2: Good morning to everyone, after good afternoon if you're on

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the East coast. I was just we were talking to

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it to Mark, our producer, and here I am in

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usually sunny southern California and it's been raining. It's so

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bizarre for us to get rained. My dogs are just

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you know, came in earlier and they were sopping wet.

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California wines. I'm sure you everard all of you have

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last week we were talking about allergies and it's a huge,

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huge problem that we see in pets. I would say

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this time, maybe you're certainly the number one problem. And

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what I want to do is Over the next few weeks,

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we're going to go through a series of some of

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the more common things that pets are presented to us

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or to me four And how serious could they be?

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Speaker 3: Might they be? How nervous should you be if your pet.

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Speaker 2: Starts exhibiting some of these signs? And I'm going to

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try to help you sift through the process.

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Speaker 3: Is this emergency? Is it not an emergency? Can it wait?

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How many days can I give it? Etc?

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Speaker 2: And I'll help you get through that. So again, first

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and foremost we were talking about allergies. We had gotten

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through a lot of the skin allergies that are caused

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by for example, fleas, skin allergies that were caused by pollen,

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and we had to stop the conversation right out of

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time last week when we.

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Speaker 3: Got to the foods.

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Speaker 2: And as with the other allergens, flees, pollen's especially, the

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manifestation in our pets is not the same as it

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is for us. For example, well, yeah, of course fleas

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are gonna be the same. When you're gonna flee jump

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on all over you, and a bite, you're gonna get

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attlee bite, You're gonna get a little irritation and I've

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had clients come in and roll up their pant leg

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and they have it looks like they have the measles

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or chicken box. It's unbelievable because there are so many

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fleas biting them. Typically, however, fleas don't take it personally.

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Fleas like your pets better, and once an adult flea,

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once a flea, a larva, hatches to a young adult. Okay,

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those are the ones that are all over your carpet.

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Once they make it to a pet and take that

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first blood meal, there is some alteration, some change within

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their intestinal track to where now they become obligate parasites.

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They need that blood meal. So if they should jump

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off of your dog or cat and can't find your

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dog your cat again, within hours to a day, they're

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gonna be dead. So most of the fleas that you're

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gonna see on your carpets, on your furniture, that are

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hopping on to you when you sit down, are probably

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those young adult fleas that have not yet found.

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Speaker 3: Their host that's your pet.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes they're gonna find you, but once they do find

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that pet, they become obligate. So the little labrashes the

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secondary infection. That makes sense, Now the pollens, as we talk,

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that's a different ballgame. When we breathe in pollens, if

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we are allergic, if we have hay fever as I

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did as a kid, the symptoms are gonna be respiratory.

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They're gonna be coughing, it's gonna be itchy throat, it's

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gonna be a chest cold. I mean, running knows something

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that is more a localized respiratory problem because we inhaled

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the allergen.

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Speaker 3: Not so in our dogs and cats.

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Speaker 2: When dogs and cats inhale their allergens, whether it's pollens, molds,

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things around the house, dust, dust mites, tobacco, smoke, they scratch,

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their manifest of allergies is skin related. So the best

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we have, especially in the dog, as we talked last week,

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is to be able to based on the location of

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the skin problem, we might have a clue as to

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what the culprit is. Not so own cats. Cats aren't

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as nice to us, and with a cat it could

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be regardless of the allergen. They can have lesions anywhere,

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no rhyme, no reason. Now, now what about food, So

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you would think what happens if we eat something that

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we're allergic to or we're sensitive to. Probably we're gonna

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have some intestinal issue. People who are severely allergic might

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have an anaphylactic reaction. But again you can get if

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I asked you, what do you think a dog's manifestation

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is going to beat a food allergy? And hopefully you're

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going to guess, as with pollens and everything else, skin

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and guess what.

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Speaker 3: You're right, it's going to be skin.

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Speaker 2: Now, the classic textbook manifestation of allergies food allergies in

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a dog, the skin lesions are going to be chewing

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at the feet, the front is easier for them to

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get to it, maybe rubbing at the face and also

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ears now, I remember we've ears now, We've talked about

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ear allergies with pollen inhalation as well with atopic dermatitis.

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So there's going to be some overlap, of course. But

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if you have a dog that classically presents with licking

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at its feet incessantly and is rubbing at its face,

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rubbing it its ears, scratching ears, red and flamed ears,

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you gotta think food now, How is a great way

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to easily differentiate between whether their feet and ear chewing

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and scratching because of food or pollen very simple. If

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you haven't changed your pet's food, and this allergy is seasonal,

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meaning it goes away during fallen winter, guess what, it's

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not the food. However, if it's not seasonal, and even

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though it's the same whether there it's summer spring or

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whether it's fall winter, then for sure I would put

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food much higher on the list. As a matter of fact,

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as we're going to get to right now, it's so

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difficult to really identify and diagnose food related allergies. I

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will often tell someone if they're having a problem like

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this time of year, we'll treat it symptomatically and we're

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going to wait. I tell them, you know what, let's

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wait until October, late September, October November, and if the

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symptoms seem to go on their own, then let's not

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mess with the food. Thing is it's such a pain,

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it is so difficult to do, and let's just say,

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you know what, if it went away, it's most likely

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a seasonal allergy. So having said that, let's get into

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some nuts and bolts. And if you have a pet,

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and you're listening now and we're alive, and you have

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any question about allergies, be it pollen, be it fleas,

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be it ticks, be it, be it food, you name it.

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So what I want is to talk about this food thing. Typically,

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the most common app gen that pets are allergic to

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is going to be proteins. So in the perfect world,

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if we want to try to diagnose a particular allergen

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or allergens, we would need to eliminate all from the

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diet for eight weeks, and we need to be very

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very strict, and I mean that means nothing else other

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than a non allergenic food. The problem is they don't

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always like this non allergenic food. And a bigger problem

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is you. Because I know, as with many, many, many clients,

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I could tell you this till I'm blue in the face,

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and it's not going to mean diddley.

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Speaker 3: If you have kids in the house, forget about it.

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Speaker 2: There's no way that you are going to have this

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dog not eat anything else. But in theory, if we

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can eliminate the antigens in this diet for about eight weeks.

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Speaker 3: It used to be six.

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Speaker 2: We're getting tougher on it, and now it's eight weeks

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and food is the problem, then this pet usually it's

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going to be in the dog is going to improve.

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And when that dog improves, we're going to sit back

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and go, Ah, that's it.

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Speaker 3: It's food.

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Speaker 2: We now have confirmation that it's food. So now what

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So now what we start doing is let's start introducing

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food groups, specifically proteins, one at a time, and then

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we'll do some carbs and we're gonna make like a

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checklist and see which protein do they start scratching. Now,

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if they do, you don't have to wait another eight

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weeks to not All you have to do is as

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soon as you see the earliest signs of footooing, face,

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rubby ears, whatever, stop that one. Wait about four or

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five days and we should be okay. Now try to

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introduce things that they've never seen before.

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Speaker 3: And we'll get to that in a minute. And I'll

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give you some suggestions.

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Speaker 2: But the whole idea is that if it's something that's

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been commonly in part of their diet, clearly there's a

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good chance that might be the culprit. Why give it

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to them again? So we want to first choose things

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that they probably haven't seen before. And if you can

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identify a couple of different proteins and they seem to

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do well, then go to some carbs. Likewise, same thing,

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things they've never seen before.

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Speaker 3: Speak to your.

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Speaker 2: Veterinarian about maybe some dietary supplement, so vitamins, because we

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need to try to make a diet balanced, and you're

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good to go.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: There is another option. There is a hydrolyzed protein diet.

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Hydrolyzed proteins can actually eliminate summer most of the antigenicity.

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It tastes a little better than a non allergenic diet,

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meaning in non protein the non protein it's really not proteins.

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What they do is they will actually fragment the proteins

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to destroy their antigenicity. So the pet could eat it

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getting the benefit of protein, but antigenetically it's not the

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same as normal and therefore the body is not going

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to react against it. It's not going to have an

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antibody to react against the actual protein. So what many

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companies have done, which I think is a good idea,

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is they've come up with what we call novel protein diets.

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Now what that means is they are choosing a single

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protein and a single carb that are kind of bizarre

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things that it wouldn't surprise me if your pet has

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never seen, for example, salmon and potato, or they call

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fish and potato, venison and green pea, rabbit and green pea,

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or rabbit and potato. So you know, typically the most

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common carbs in our pets foods have been things like

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you know, wheat, things like oats. Well, certainly rice. So again,

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thirty years ago, rice was a great one, and in fact,

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the very first non or hypoelergenic diet on the market

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was a rice. It was lamb and rice because all

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the other foods had chicken or beef. So now it's venison,

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it's bison, it's fish, it's rabbit.

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Speaker 3: It's kangaroo. Edge a good one for you.

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Speaker 2: I mean, when was the last time your pet had

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a chance to eat kangaroo meat. So it's coming up

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with these kind of bizarre proteins and these things like

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some of the grains, some of the carbs, some of

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the vegetables that most likely either they've never eaten before

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or we just know from the dermatologists historically that they're

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pretty low antigenicity. They don't usually cause the problem in pets.

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So instead of going to that very difficult, not so

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great tasting, unbalanced diet, why don't you try a balanced,

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novel protein, novel carb diet and if it works fantastic,

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stick with it, don't change, and it's a little easier

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to do. The premise is the same. You're going gonna

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have to go six to eight weeks. It can have

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nothing nothing else during that time period, and then they

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can start to if they do well, stick with that one.

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five weeks, there is no change, But I would recommend

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to stop and wait, you know, a couple of weeks,

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or just just start one of the other ones. Just

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give yourself longer to see an improvement. And if that

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doesn't work, then you're gonna have to go to the

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non allergenic fragmented protein or the hydrolyzed protein diet.

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Speaker 2: Should add to this is that unfortunately the gasloin intestinal

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track is not typically going to be one of the

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symptoms that we're going to see, so you can't use

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that as a judge anyway. We're gonna get back to

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some of GI signs just a minute when we come

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back from our break. Thanks for joining me here on

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Speaker 3: Uh and I'm.

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Speaker 2: Your host, doctor Jeff. And you know, so we talked

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about the allergies. Huge problem we see skin disease this

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time of year, especially probably the number one problem we're

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going to see our skin related fleas and ticks. Obviously,

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flees especially a huge problem. The pollen and household allergens

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are a huge problem inhaled contact also causing skin problems.

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And we just finished talking about the foods problems. A

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couple of other things to talk about as we are

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on the subject of skin and allergies and irritation. Many

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of these problems, many of the conditions that are causing

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skin disease also cause what we call secondary bacterial infection,

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and that is called a pioderma. They're usually superficial infection.

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And interestingly, the bacterium involved is a normal inhabitant of skin.

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It is a staff epidermitis. It's a staff lecoccal bacterium

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that lives peacefully on the dog, on your cat. It's

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just there us. So why why does this same bug

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cause problems when it does. It's because of the self trauma.

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It is because of the skin inflammation. It is the scratching.

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So what happens is as soon as the protective barrier

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of that skin is affected, is broken down because of

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its inflammation, because of the dog scratching, the cats scratching.

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and starts invading into the hair follicles, into the skin

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and causing the skin infection. The point being that you

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have to know that when your veterinarian is going to

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treat these allergies with these skin conditions, more likely than

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not antibiotics are going to be in. The equation is

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we can't just treat the symptoms, the itching, the scratching.

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Now we have something else to deal with, and that

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is the secondary bacterial infection. We got to do it

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now before we move on. There are one or two

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other conditions that affect animal skin that are nothing to

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do with allergy. Well, first of all, pioderma itself could

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be primary it usually isn't when I see a pioderma.

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another underlying cause. We can't see it primary, but we

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usually don't choose the secondary to something one thing. We

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will see another primary problem again. Both with secondary potential

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for pioderma are the manges most common demo dectic mange,

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and scabies, which is sarcoptic mange. If I see a dog,

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let's go back to ears for a second, typically a

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young dog or a dog that has been mingling, playing

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with a puppy. Especially typically it's gonna be a puppy

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you know nothing about. They bumped up into each other

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on the street. It was a stray dog on the street.

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the owner got from some guy sitting on the street.

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By getting at is using puppies that are not well

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cared for, weren't well bred, and they can have something

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called scabies sarcoptic mange. What you need to do about

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scabies is, first of all, the lesion itself is intensely pterritic,

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meaning intensely itchy, so miserable. These dogs are going to

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be that I often joke.

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Speaker 3: If you put him.

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Speaker 2: In front of you for ten minutes, he's going to

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scratch for a the ten And the lesions most commonly

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are going to be on the head and neck, the ears,

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especially the ear margins, and I'm gonna give you a

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little trick about that one. And in the axilayer area

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which is under the arm and the armpits ventrally on

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the bottom. So your lesions are going to be face,

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head and neck, ear under the acceller of the armpits,

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and the venu from the bottom. In other words, very

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little on the back, unlike what fleas. So we know

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that flees, the skin disease related to fleeology, likes the

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back of the dog, and this one is usually on

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the ventrom it's on.

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Speaker 3: The lower side.

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Speaker 2: It is a contact driven parasite, meaning direct contact given

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from the.

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Speaker 3: Culprit the host, whoever that was.

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Speaker 2: And we also know that they live very superficially on

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the pet, which means guess what they can also attach

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to you.

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Speaker 3: So if I have a.

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Speaker 2: Dog coming in with this intense pariitis, one trick is

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you can gently tickle the edges of their ear of

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the ear flap okay, And if that sets up an

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intense reaction where they start scratching incessantly with their back leg.

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We call that a pedal reflex. There's a good chance

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there are scabies on board. And the reason I mentioned

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some of these things is that unlike the demodectic mange,

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the scabies might, even though it could be there in

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huge numbers, is often very difficult to find. So if

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we were going to base our diagnosis just on finding

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these mites on a skin scraping, we may fail. So

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we have to look at the other clues. Is there

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are very strong pinel pedal reflex are the lesions around

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the axilla, So I see a lot of scabs and

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rednisce sowres in the armpits around the face and the belly.

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Speaker 3: And here's the clincher.

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Speaker 2: If you the owner also is scratching typically the forearms

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and at the belt line, then I'm treating for scapies

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because there are very few other things that can do that,

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whether I find them or not. I mean, you can

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do ten scrapings and they all can be negative, even

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though the dog has the might. And also when we scrape,

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we usually scrape more superficially, and we scrape a larger area,

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and that is because it's so hard to find. We

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want to increase our chances of finding this mage.

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Speaker 3: Might and that's scabies. Now.

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Speaker 2: Demodectic mange, on the other hand, can affect a dog

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of any age, and it's often linked to the immune

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system when we see immune suppression. It's not uncommon to

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have a flare up of demodectic mange infection if there

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is a stress to the body. We can see a

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flare up, for example post surgery, for example, post whelping.

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A mama dog can have puppies and she can end

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up with demodectic mange. What's interesting about demadecs. First of all,

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it's non contagious. Not only is it not contagious to you,

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it's not contagious to other dogs. Well, now you're going

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to scratch it as way a second, where'd it come from? Ah,

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we'll get there in a second. It's gonna blow your

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mind too. And it's not contagious. It in of itself

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is not itchy, but very commonly it's associated with that

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you got it secondary back cural infection, and that is

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really itchy. So we have a secondary bacural infection. We're

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gonna have the itchiness that Prietus usually much easier to find, however,

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since they live so deeply down in the hair follicle,

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which is why the lesions associated with demo dectic mange

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are usually what we call patchy alopicha. There are patches

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of either thinning or no hair. The skin collection actually

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look pretty good. You might see a little some pustules

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or a little scabs because of the dog scratching, but

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you don't see the same redness and erythema that you

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might see with scabies. So you have to scrape deeply

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enough to draw blood. Why because they're hiding down deep

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in the hair follicles and that's where we have to scrape.

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They are much easier to find if they're there, so

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we don't have to do a very wide scraping. We

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can scrape just a smaller area. But you gotta go deep.

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So when your veterinarian brings that pet of yours back

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out and it's bleeding, don't yell, don't be upset. You

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have to We must get deep enough to cause some

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bleeding in order to get the unaccurate scrape.

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Speaker 3: So the clincher, though, is this.

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Speaker 2: When I was in school, and this is thirty plus

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years ago. We guestimated, or the guestimate was from the dermatologists,

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that about seventy percent of dogs had the demodetic maine

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might on their bodies as a normal inhabitant of skin,

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and it was the immune system that caused them to

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start congregating in certain areas, invading the hair follicles, infecting,

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eating out the hair, et cetera. That guestimate is now

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up to one hundred percent. So why does your dog

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get it. It doesn't get it from another dog, It

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gets from himself because they are normal inhabitants of skin.

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They live there one hundred percent. And it's whatever. It

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might be causing stress, anxiety, immunosuppression, et cetera, might be

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propagating the actual infection that we're seeing. When these dogs

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present with their pati alopecia, you don't have to worry

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about it. As far as contagion also difficult to treat

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with antibiotics, there are a few treatments out there. They

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usually involve a medication called ivermectin or an ivermectin cousin

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like celimectin, And we have to be careful with certain

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breeds that have a known hyper sensitivity to the ivermectins,

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like the Collie dogs, like the Australian shepherds. A lot

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of the hurting dogs seem to have a hyper sensitivity.

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So we need to be very very careful, work closely

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with your veterinarian when.

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Speaker 3: It comes to these.

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Speaker 2: It takes a while to treat both of them. It's

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going to be a bit of a commitment, but very treatable.

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And just to really freak you out before we say

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goodbye for today, about seventy or eighty percent of people

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actually have demo dectic mange mites living in our eyebrows.

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Speaker 3: So there you go. Take that thought to bed with you,

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but yeah, it's pretty gross. Anyway.

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Speaker 2: I want to thank you for joining me here on

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pet Life Radio Assets with Doctor Jeff. If you want

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to send me to DRJF at pet Life Radio dot.

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Speaker 3: Com, go ahead, please do so.

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Speaker 2: I'll answer it and I'll read your email online and

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you too will get a pro sense product and a

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contoy just for joining in and allowing us to answer

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your questions online. And next week, another major major problem

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that we often see that I want to talk about,

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and that's going to be vomiting, very very common presentation.

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Speaker 3: When do we worry? Why do we worry? How does

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it happen?

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Speaker 2: And we're going to go through a series of these,

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and next week, how lovely, we're going to talk about

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the vomiting dog or the vomiting cat. And until then,

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have a great week. We'll see here next week on

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pet Life Radio. Ask the best of Doctor Jeff. I'm

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your host, doctor Jeff Werber, and thanks again to pro

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Sense and comm see here next week.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk pets every week on demand only on pet

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life radio dot com.