Dermatology Food for thought diagnosis of food allergies
Course Content
The diagnosis of cutaneous adverse food reactions (CAFRs) in dogs and cats.
- Which are the most common offending allergens in these species?
- Which food challenges should be performed to faster confirm the diagnosis of adverse food reactions?
- Get familiar with all the testing modalities
- Serum tests for food-specific IgE and IgG
- Intradermal testing with food antigens
- Lymphocyte proliferation tests
- Fecal food-specific IgE
- Patch, gastroscopic, and colonoscopic testing.
- The mislabelling of pet foods appears rather common, even in those with “novel” or “limited” ingredients proposed for elimination diets. Unexpected added ingredients are more frequently detected than those missing from the label. Will the presence of a contaminating component lead to a clinical reaction in an allergic patient?
Such questions and many more will be answered in the 1st MEAVC Journal Club.
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Nao Hensel
⦁ Nao Hensel is a native of Japan.
⦁ She obtained Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University in USA in 2010.
⦁ Then completed a one-year rotating small animal internship in Boston, USA followed by a 3-year veterinary dermatology residency in Georgia, USA. Nao has a special interest in autoimmune diseases, otology and allergic skin diseases
⦁ In 2014, she moved to Basel, Switzerland and opened a veterinary dermatology practice.
Patrick Hensel
⦁ Patrick Hensel is a 1996 graduate of the University of Bern, Switzerland. He received his Dr med vet from the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2000 in recognition of research on urinary incontinence after spaying. Then he completed a one-year rotating small animal internship in small animal medicine and surgery at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital Zürich followed by a 3-year veterinary dermatology residency at the University of Georgia.
⦁ From 2004 he was appointed faculty at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia, and tenured to Associate Professor in 2010, where he served as the senior faculty in teaching, clinical research and clinical service until 2014.
⦁ Patrick has a special interest in allergic and parasitic skin diseases and is a member of the International Committee on Allergic Diseases of Animals (ICADA). In 2014 he decided to return to Switzerland and to open a dermatology clinic in his hometown area of Basel.