Dermatology Consultation
Together, let’s find a management strategy for your pet’s itch
You’ve got an itchy, smelly, pet on your hands. Skin disease can obviously be frustrating for you, your pet, and your family veterinarian. At PetDerm, we dig deep to find the underlying cause, and then move forward with the best management strategy for you, your family and your pet. It all starts with an in-depth consultation. This initial meeting allows us to understand your pet’s symptoms, history, and the course of disease.
Once we find a personalized care plan, please be aware that not every pet responds the same way, and recheck appointments are often needed to find a management strategy that works best. We also provide options for follow up and ongoing support that can be done in person or virtually. The follow-up options are discussed in your consultation.
How to book this service?
Please ask your family veterinarian for a referral. Send your veterinarian a referral request to get your initial consultation booked!
We understand you may be struggling to find the help you need for your special pet. We want to help so we created a self-referral process for a dermatology consultation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most common symptoms of an allergy include itching, scratching, head flapping and excess licking. Often dogs and cats will experience inflammation of their skin and ear and often experience recurrent and chronic secondary skin and ear infections.
If your pet is experiencing environmental allergies, their symptoms may be seasonal, and change throughout the year. If your pet has concurrent or undiagnosed food allergies, which may occur alongside environmental allergies, they may experience gastrointestinal symptoms such as soft stools, diarrhea, increased bowel frequency, and vomiting.
PetDerm’s Library is ever growing with resources. You can start your search with symptoms or diagnosis your pet may have.
Yes! Even though pictures say a thousand words, the skin and ears need to be viewed and assessed in-person. We would need to meet you and your pet to determine the most probable diagnosis and treatment plan.
For dermatology patients, if you and your family veterinarian suspect a diagnosis of atopic dermatitis, PetDerm can schedule the consultation and allergy testing on the same day. Please note that more than one visit will be required to help you and your pet.
Start the process today by asking your family veterinarian for a referral today!
You can find a list of veterinary dermatologists and internists in Canada to locate the one nearest to you!
Expect to be at PetDerm for approximately 60 minutes. If you did not fill out the New Patient Intake form, please arrive 15 minutes early to fill out the form.
Yes! We ask you to fill out our New Patient Intake that is detailed record of your experience of your pet’s symptoms. Please set aside 10 to 15 minutes to complete the intake. Also, we request medical history from your primary veterinarians(s) and you.
Because allergies are incurable, it can be frustrating to try things and not see results. As dermatology and allergy experts, we bring more resources and accurate testing to the table, which can lead to much better outcomes. Visit our library to understand how better outcomes from visiting a Veterinary Dermatologist.
Allergies can be managed, but rarely cured, and we’re committed to being a successful part of your pet’s allergy journey.
The goal of allergy testing is not to ‘diagnose’ an allergy in your pet. A diagnosis is made with a dermatological history, a dermatological exam, ruling out other causes of itching, and coming to the clinical diagnosis of Atopic Dermatitis – or hypersensitivities to environmental allergens. Once the diagnosis is made, the purpose of the allergy test is to formulate an immunotherapy for your pet. Immunotherapy (allergy shots (SCIT) or allergy drops (SLIT)) consists of microdosing your pet with what it is allergic to over time. This will create immune-tolerance where your pet gets used to the allergen and the symptoms are reduced or resolved.
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