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September 6th 2024
This year’s event is sponsored by Blue Buffalo Natural, MedVet, Banfield Pet Hospital, and Thrive Pet Healthcare
Establishing a reliable pruritus scale in dogs
June 8th 2009A consistent scale for determining a dog's degree of pruritus would be valuable in any number of ways: for you and your clients to determine whether a dermatologic treatment is working, for clear communication between general practitioners and specialists, for use in studies evaluating antipruritic treatments, and more.
Help for the uncontrollably itchy (Proceedings)
April 1st 2009What do you do with those dogs that have been diagnosed with atopy but are not getting better or better enough with treatment? Unfortunately, there are no magic potions either from the past or present that are going to easily fix these patients. Owners of these dogs need to understand some basic concepts about pruritic diseases. First, pruritus is a common presenting sign for both allergic and non-allergic dermatopathies. Second, your long term goal is not necessarily to stop the itch completely, but to decrease it to a level comfortable for both the client and the patient. Third, pruritic diseases are not mutually exclusive. This means that the same patient can have 3 or 4 different problems that make him itch.