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More invasive tests for skin disease include biopsies. Minor diagnostic procedures such as magnification glass examination, skin scrapings and fungal cultures are often overlooked. “ Diagnose before you treat” should truly be a guiding principle with skin disease. This will empower you, in turn, to communicate to the client more effectively the recommendations of the veterinarians in your hospital. Your vocabulary will be expanded to include terms that describe the way the skin has responded to the disease. The following material will give you the foundation to carry on conversations and communications with the doctors in the clinic as well as the clients on matters that involve the skin. And it is your responsibility to help maintain the continued investment of time and energy that dog skin problems often require. As a part of the animal health care team, it is your responsibility to help the client understand the chronic and ongoing nature of skin disease. This is not to say that they cannot be managed, just that, when the management stops, the skin disease will reoccur. Skin disease can be frustrating to manage because many skin diseases cannot be cured. It would be a great disservice to the appreciation of the human/companion animal bond if we did not appreciate the concerns of the client – no matter how minor they may appear. The client does not know what the bump is, and feels it every time she pets him on the head. Even if this bump looks like a “wart” that you have seen on many other dogs before. We should examine the bump, write it in the record, have the doctor examine it and perhaps biopsy it. For example: A client presents their pet for vaccinations and then, almost in passing, mentions the bump on his head. We need to guard against minimizing or belittling the concerns of our clients.
Pets have become members of our family, and because we interact with them every day by touching and petting them, abnormalities on the skin become self-magnifying concerns. It is important to understand and appreciate the relationship that clients have with their pets regarding skin disease. Therefore, when hair loss, flakes, bumps, itching or any other change occurs, the client will bring the pet in for examination. It is a mirror reflection of internal function and can be seen and examined easily by the client. The skin is the largest organ of the body and happens to be on the outside. Skin disease is the most common reason for a pet to be presented to the animal hospital for examination. We will be discussing skin disease and therapy as it applies to small animal veterinary practice during this lesson. Veterinary dermatology is the study of the skin. Digital Veterinary Radiography at Safari.Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease (PBFD).
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