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Allergy Testing
Your pet must be off all medications for a designated amount of time before the Allergy testing can be done.
First, blood will be drawn. There are 2 reasons to why we pull blood. One: to make sure your pet is healthy enough to under go the sedation and two: A small amount of blood will be sent to a lab in order to find out what things your pet is allergic to.
 Angelcare Animal hospital offers Intradermal Skin Testing (allergy skin test). The process involves injecting a small amount of different allergens (pollen, dust, cat dander etc.) under the animals skin. After a few minutes your pets body will start to have a allergic reaction to the different allergens. Using a scale of 0-4 each injection site is ranked on the bodies reaction to those particular allergens.
Your pet will recieve another injection to help calm their immune response. This helps them not have to itch.
After getting the results back from the lab, we cross check the intradermal skin test to find out the top 10 things your pet is allergic to.
Using these 2 tests Angelcare can then mix a proper allergy "vaccine" for your pet.
Dr. Limpach will show you how to inject your pet and the rules and guidelines of the Allergy "vaccine."
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