Referral Animal Skin Hospital

We love some impressive positive reactions on an intradermal allergy test 🤩

Removing these ceruminoliths (hard balls of wax and debris) with our video otoscope, means; ⚕️ We protected the ear drums from being ruptured (busrt) and spreading infection to the middle ear. ⚕️ Ear medications and cleaning will now be more effective. Ceruminoliths can act as a source of infection, and can be the reason ear infections won't clear up. ⚕️ This patient will now be much more comfortable!

Intradermal allergy testing and immunotherapy are just one of the many ways we can manage environmental allergies in pets, but here's why we think it's pretty awesome 😎

Pre anaesthesia cuddles and calm 💕

Once a month we are in Wellington seeing cases at Kelburn vets, here's a peak at our ast visit

We love incorporating phovia into our management plans, especially when it's this easy! This patient has superficial pyoderma (infection) that we are treating using the phovia system once weekly. We apply a special gel and use the lamp to activate the gel and all its amazing properties! We do two back to back sessions a week, taking 2 minutes each session. Phovia reduces inflammation, has antimicrobial properties, and encourages wound healing and collagen production

Intradermal allergy testing is a tool we use to identify which environmental allergens are triggering our patients with atopic dermatitis. 🌱 Our test panel contains 58 different allergens, including pollens, dust mites, humans, fibers, and insects. 🌱 Small amounts of each allergen are injected under the skin, and each reaction is scored positive or negative. 🌱 This is not how we test for food allergies. Food allergy can only be diagnosed through a strict elimination diet trial. 🌱 This test is only recommended if immunotherapy will be used as a management tool. While it's nice to know what allergens are causing the problem, almost all of the allergens we test for are unavoidable

The toothpick technique This technique allows us to easily get cytology samples from around the nail bed, a place where Malassezia likes to hide. While it looks a little uncomfortable, most pets don’t notice at all

What might be down my pet's ears?

Has your pet got ear problems? We've got specialised equipment that can help. Watch our video for an example of video otoscopy (using a small camera to look down the ear) being used to troubleshoot and treat one patient's ear problem.

Allergy Testing for Pets

Have you ever wondered how allergy testing is done? The clip below shows you the gold standard in allergy testing - the intradermal test - in progress at Animal Dermatology Clinic NZ and explains the purpose behind it.