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Vet Skin and Ear Excellence in treatment of allergy, skin and ear disease for dogs and cats. Please phone/ SMS for prompt reply and appointment scheduling. Thank you.

Viral Papillomas of Dogs 🐶 Similar to humans, dogs can develop viral papillomas, especially around their face. These are...
17/03/2025

Viral Papillomas of Dogs 🐶

Similar to humans, dogs can develop viral papillomas, especially around their face. These are benign (non-cancerous) lumps. They are species-specific so cannot be transmitted to people. They are usually found on young dogs/puppies or dogs with a suppressed immune system. It is caused by the papilloma virus and is transmitted through direct contact with infected dogs, or their environment - shared use of water bowls, bedding, toys. Even though some papillomas have quite a distinctive appearance, the best way for the veterinarian to diagnose them is through an FNA (Fine Needle Aspirate) or a biopsy of the lumps. Usually they do not require treatment and will go away on their own, however if they have multiple that may impact the patient's eating or cause discomfort, they may need to be removed. This can be done cryogenically by freezing them or surgically removing them. There are also certain medications that are being trialled to help treat these lumps. We wish this pup a speedy recovery!

Meet Gus 🐩 He is a beautiful Lagotto Romagnolo and was brought into us due to recurrent ear infections. Using our video ...
18/02/2025

Meet Gus 🐩 He is a beautiful Lagotto Romagnolo and was brought into us due to recurrent ear infections. Using our video otoscope, we were able to have a thorough examination of Gus' ears. As you can see from below, we managed to pull quite a bit of excess hair and debris from his ears. We were then able to examine the rest of his ear canal and his tympanic membrane (eardrum) and make sure it was intact. We flushed his ears with saline and instilled some prescribed medication and now Gus should be on the road to recovery!

Here we have a case of Feline Eosinophilic Granuloma Complex 🐈Meet our favorite patient for the week! She is a stunning ...
11/02/2025

Here we have a case of Feline Eosinophilic Granuloma Complex 🐈
Meet our favorite patient for the week! She is a stunning Siberian Forest Cat. She is unfortunately suffering from uncomfortable skin lesions caused by her allergy (hypersensitivity). The possible causes are flea bite allergy, possibly also food allergy, but most likely in many cases, environmental allergy (allergy to moulds/insects/mites or plant pollens). We broadly name this group of symptoms and lesions "Feline Eosinophilic Granuloma Complex." This condition can manifest lesions as either very itchy skin, unusual skin lesions (scab like lesions, or very red, raw plaques, similar to the photographs below), or lesions near or inside the mouth(mouth ulcers, unusual growths or swollen or ulcerated lips).
In this case, we have narrowed down the skin allergy to be an environmental allergy. From here, we need to work out exactly which allergens (for example, exactly which plants) she is allergic to. Once we know that, we make a specific vaccine containing just those allergens, and use the vaccine to de-sensitize her, so that she no longer shows the same aggressive response to those allergens.

Meet Miel! She is the lovely brown Peruvian Hairless dog on the left. She presented to us today with ongoing skin issues...
18/11/2024

Meet Miel! She is the lovely brown Peruvian Hairless dog on the left. She presented to us today with ongoing skin issues. Her two siblings tagged along for the appointment today for some moral support which Miel appreciated! It is not every day we get to meet such a unique breed. We wish her a speedy recovery 🐶

Yesterday our team conducted a video otoscopy on the lovely Billie 🐕 Using a special camera, we are able to go into the ...
23/10/2024

Yesterday our team conducted a video otoscopy on the lovely Billie 🐕 Using a special camera, we are able to go into the ear canal and examine the structures of the ear including the tympanic membrane (eardrum). We will look for any inflammation, bleeding and build-up of purulent material (pus). We then flush the ear canal thoroughly with saline to remove any debris. Then we can instil the required medications to help fight the infection.
Good luck on the rest of your healing journey Billie!🤞

Meet Marcel! 🐾 He came to us with a lot of hair loss and other skin issues. Dogs with Cushing's disease typically presen...
22/10/2024

Meet Marcel! 🐾 He came to us with a lot of hair loss and other skin issues. Dogs with Cushing's disease typically present very similarly to Marcel here. Owners may notice excessive water drinking, excessive urination, increased appetite, hair loss and lethargy (tiredness). It is caused by the adrenal gland overproducing certain hormones including cortisone. This can be identified with a specific blood test conducted in clinic and it is then sent off to the lab for further testing. A treatment plan can then be put in place once the type of Cushing's disease is identified. We are wishing Marcel a speedy recovery! 🐶

Today we had the lovely Lucky in to visit us!Looking at the photos, you can see that he has alopecia (hair loss) on both...
17/10/2024

Today we had the lovely Lucky in to visit us!

Looking at the photos, you can see that he has alopecia (hair loss) on both sides of his body. This can be caused from a range of things which can include fungal infections, mites, and seasonal alopecia. We are currently working with Lucky and his owners to get to the bottom of this! He will be trialled on a specific medication to alleviate his symptoms in the meantime.

We wish Lucky a speedy recovery!

Hi everyone, We had beautiful Simba in to visit us. Simba has about 5 issues we are currently treating. From the photos ...
10/09/2024

Hi everyone,
We had beautiful Simba in to visit us. Simba has about 5 issues we are currently treating. From the photos you can see some cysts on his foot and calluses on the hock, elbow and possible solar (sun driven) dermatitis.

We have sent off a bacterial culture to check for any antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections as well as working out a strategy to treat the foot, hock and elbow cysts.

We will keep you posted on his treatment, hopefully we can get this lovely boy feeling better!

We had a new patient this week, a beautiful young French Bulldog. She presented with an interesting disease- pemphigus f...
27/08/2024

We had a new patient this week, a beautiful young French Bulldog. She presented with an interesting disease- pemphigus foliaceus. This is an uncommon, autoimmune skin disease, where the body's immune system attacks the connections between its own skin cells. It typically causes hair loss, scabs, and ulcers around the head, face, and ears, and fever and generally very poor health. The disease has no cure once it is triggered. We need to carefully manage the disease life-long, with gentle suppression of the unusual immune response, using corticosteroids or other immune-modulating drugs. It is important to identify the trigger for the disease (which can be something as simple as a new skin cream applied, a drug administered, or a change of diet). If the trigger can be identified, the disease may settle down somewhat, and we know to avoid the trigger in future.

We will keep you posted! If you have any questions, we are always happy to answer them 😊
Just give us a call on 03 9500 0922!

Thanks!
Team, Vet Skin and Ear

We love having your furry friends recover with us at reception, especially when they are this cute!We are almost back to...
13/08/2024

We love having your furry friends recover with us at reception, especially when they are this cute!
We are almost back to do consultations and procedures! Hang tight.

Lucky for you we are still on the phones and email; any questions don't be afraid to reach out to us!

Lots of love,
Team Vet Skin and Ear

Marlo came in a few weeks ago for an Intradermal Skin Allergy Test. She came in to see Dr Dan as she was itching and nee...
06/08/2024

Marlo came in a few weeks ago for an Intradermal Skin Allergy Test.
She came in to see Dr Dan as she was itching and needed to be on medication constantly to control it.
Being on Anallergenic food, Apoquel and Cytopoint, it was time to come in and see if we could give her some relief.

Our plan was to control the itch, control any infections and work out primary causes (allergens).
Our patients cannot have prednisolone, topical steroids, oral antihistamines for 4 weeks before the test as well as no Apoquel for 1 week before as these medications will interfere with the allergens we inject.
We did the allergy test and got a strong response from the allergens. Dr Dan used those results to compose a tailored immunotherapy vaccine for Marlo!

Good luck on your healing Journey Marlo!

Some interesting cases here at Peak to Coast- my first case of cholesteotoma in a dog, an expansile mass of keratin in t...
02/08/2024

Some interesting cases here at Peak to Coast- my first case of cholesteotoma in a dog, an expansile mass of keratin in the middle ear that is non-cancerous and treatable. That was the case on the CT scan image. Also, a cat with ceruminous cystomatosis / cystic adenomatosis -an uncommon, non cancerous disorder of cats affecting the ear flap and ear canal opening. Nasty ear infection below. Great team work, conquered 4 surgical cases in one day. The vet ear gods must have known I was coming, bringing out some really unusual cases.

I'm at Peak to Coast Veterinary Specialists this week, working on some ear and skin cases with Dr Sonja Zabel. We both s...
02/08/2024

I'm at Peak to Coast Veterinary Specialists this week, working on some ear and skin cases with Dr Sonja Zabel. We both share a passion for fixing ears, so hopefully we'll have some interesting cases to show you! Ian, 2nd year vet student is here also. Its nice to have his company and help him to work through some of the more unusual disease processes. https://peaktocoast.com/

The 10th World Congress of Vet Dermatology has finished. Many worthwhile lectures, useful workshops, fun social events, ...
29/07/2024

The 10th World Congress of Vet Dermatology has finished. Many worthwhile lectures, useful workshops, fun social events, and old friends! Thanks to all involved in the organisation.
I'm off to Portland, Oregon for a short week of ear scope ideas-sharing with another dermatologist there. After that I am on holidays!

CO2 Laser workshop today. This is a valuable tool for cutting tissues in animals and humans bodies to do things like rem...
29/07/2024

CO2 Laser workshop today. This is a valuable tool for cutting tissues in animals and humans bodies to do things like remove lumps and unusual tumors and resect tissue that doesn't belong. Some of the great benefits of this machine is that it creates very little heat when it's operating, and does not therefore create much bleeding nor inflammation at all. So we achieve faster healing and less pain after surgery. After some pretty heavy theoretical sessions on how different machines work and different settings/ features (basic physics!) we all got to practice on a range of quirky specimens including vegetables, cracked eggs (cutting just through the yolk!), marshmallows, paddle pop sticks, and fresh chicken!
Very useful workshop. CO2 laser is an exciting tool for veterinary surgery.

We had a cool case a couple of weeks ago, a beautiful German Short Haired Pointer named Klaus came to us with recurring ...
29/07/2024

We had a cool case a couple of weeks ago, a beautiful German Short Haired Pointer named Klaus came to us with recurring ear infections in his right ear for the past 12 months.

Klaus was admitted for a general anaesthetic and ear clean procedure. This ear had copious dark debris in the vertical and horizontal canals. There was a significant amount of scar tissue and soreness.

Initially, we cleaned the external ear till it was spotless, using the videoscope to provide optimal visualisation of the area. We needed to perform a myringotomy (create a hole in the ear drum) to allow us to drain and clean the middle ear, and finally instil ear medication into the ear. Klaus' procedure took approx 2 hours to complete. Its quite a complex task and a very fiddly small space to work in.

Klaus is making a good recovery and is being looked after so well by his family!

The two photos represent his left 'clean' ear and the problem right ear, which we performed the myringotomy on. The tube you can see is just 1.9mm diameter, and fits through an operating port on the scope. Once we have access through our hole in the ear drum, the tube is passed right to the back of the middle ear. It is used to remove junk, flush in sterile cleaning fluids, and finally instill medications through.

28/07/2024

Saturday night, party time! A bunch of vets get together every Congress and play their best rock music. Actually they were really good! Fun night, and I ran into four other Australian skin vets. That's more than I see at home!

Awesome day scoping ears! A significant part of my work in Melbourne is treating dog and cat long standing ear infection...
28/07/2024

Awesome day scoping ears! A significant part of my work in Melbourne is treating dog and cat long standing ear infections, and we use video cameras to visualize the ears and clean them. We were fortunate today to have two experts from Japan come over just to show us their equipment and their techniques!
They even brought their own ears with them for us to play with!! Yes, true to form, the innovative Japanese boys designed and brought along their own dogs external and middle ear models just for us. Great space for refining some very fine skills! Fun had by all.

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