Dr Erik Johnson - Veterinarian
Companion Animal & Fish Health
The immune system in dogs and cats can make them itch, and also give them protection from viruses. Everything immune is here.
This is a video that addresses food allergy, atopy, and chronic skin infections.
Dermatology and some of the changes in its utility are discussed.
Several points of “bad medicine” are brought up.
Notably
Research seems to be validating more and more of Linus Pauling’s hypotheses about Vitamin C (ascorbate). Linus Pauling won the Nobel Prize, twice.
Atopy in dogs and cats in Marietta Georgia, Cobb County https://drjohnson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/AIR-AND-PETS.pdf
Blue Spray is surgical grade Chlorhexidine solution (not scrub) which happens to have benefits in cleansing a dog’s skin, clearing yeasts living in the coat, cutting oils from seborrhea, killing germs living in the skin without oral antibiotics in some cases and keeping the coat fresh smelling. All at a reasonable cost and effort.
Atopy is a condition in which multiple ‘systems’ (airway, skin, eyes, ears) may become inflamed and pruritic (itchy) because to some animals, “ground level micropollution” breaks out their skin and surfaces, like pink insulation does to me.
Imagine how you would lick your feet if you walked barefoot in pink insulation all day?
AITP Auto-Immune Thrombocytopenia in Dogs Then suddenly, your dog decides that all its platelets (clotting cells) are “foreign” invaders and are to be attacked and killed. So the immune system ramps up and starts killing off the platelets and leaves the dog at risk for bleeding. Fortunately, there are two ways a dog clots it’s … Read more
I’ve been waiting for a long time to get a video of a dog performing the “reverse sneeze” and I finally got it. This dog is doing a classic reverse sneeze, except the pace is a little bit slower than some dogs that may be younger. What’s happening is that air is moving inward through … Read more
What’s the Best Dog Probiotic on Amazon? We’ve almost forever known that our gut contains germs. We learned a little more recently that many of the germs in our gut a “good” and necessary. In the recent past, science learned that we can implant / transplant beneficial germs to the gut. Very recently, we realized … Read more
I am endorsing this protocol for folks that want immediate results and ultimately, fewer trips to the vet. Any Allergy Dermatology Case Fixed First Try It’s a shotgun approach I am seeing engaged by Veterinary Dermatologists in the Atlanta area, followed up with an injection of Cytopoint. In some cases it’s as simple as a … Read more
By far, the most common cause of foot licking is ATOPY. You see and hear dogs licking and sucking on their feet at the worst possible times, like when you’re trying to sleep. And you feel bad for them, you know? Foot Licking – Atopic Foot Chewing Fleas Always check a dog or cat for … Read more
I am endorsing this protocol for folks that want immediate results and ultimately, fewer trips to the vet. Any Allergy Dermatology Case Fixed First Try It’s a shotgun approach I am seeing engaged by Veterinary Dermatologists in the Atlanta area, followed up with an injection of Cytopoint. In some cases it’s as simple as a … Read more