Does Your Pet Suffer From Allergies?

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Did you know that pets can develop allergies too?  When sensitive pets are exposed to certain allergens, they may experience a number of skin, digestive and respiratory symptoms.  Here are a few of the common allergens we test for through Nelco Vet.

Common Allergens:

• Grasses
• Weeds
• Trees
• Mold Spores
• Foods
• Dust Mites
• House Dust
• Fleas
• Epidermals

If a test determines that your pet has an allergy, there are several treatment options available.  Depending on the allergen, you may be able to remove the substance from your pet’s environment.  If it is impossible to avoid the allergen, we can recommend the best way to safely relieve your pet’s symptoms.

We are offering a promotion through Nelco Vet this allergy season.  For a limited time, pet owners can receive a 20% discount on allergy testing and a 10% discount on oral spray.  Contact Bregman Vet Group for promotion details.

New Spray Helps Animals With Allergies

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Allergies have been really bad this year, especially in humans. But it also has been very bad for pets as well.

Fifteen to twenty percent of all dogs suffer from an allergy to pollens, mold spores, and dust mites, resulting in an itchy skin condition called atopic dermatitis. A number of treatment options are available to treat these pets, but only one targets the source and can change the underlying disease process: allergy immunotherapy (http://goo.gl/vh8Jd).

SkinVet (TM) has come out with prescription solutions that make allergy immunotherapy more available to allergic pets. A spray called RESPIT (TM) Oromucosal Spray brings together the concepts of sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) and SkinVet's patent-pending process of geographic region-specific immunotherapy formulation (http://goo.gl/vh8Jd).

Pets would receive two to three squirts a day inside their cheeks while the allergens are absorbed and processed to induce tolerance to common offending allergens.

If you have any questions regarding this oral medicine, please give us a call at one of the Bregman Vet Group hospitals and we can help you understand it better.