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Allergic dermatitis
Atopic dermatitis
Cytopoint
Apoquel
Steriods
100
True or False: Allergic itch can seriously affect quality of life for dogs and their families.
True
100
This disease has been described as feeling like your entire body is covered in poison ivy every day for your entire life.
What is atopic dermatitis?
100
Dogs of this age are approved for the use of Cytopoint.
What is any age?
100
Dogs of this age are approved to use Apoquel.
What is 12 months of age or older?
100
This is the year when prednisone and prednisolone came to the market?
What is 1955?
200
This percentage of pet owners have already tried treating the dog's itch themselves before even consulting their veterinarian.
What is 88%?
200
This percentage of owners with dogs who suffer from atopy say that their dog's condition has an impact on their own quality of life.
What is 48%?
200
Cytopoint is indicated to aid in the reduction of clinical signs associated with this type of dermatitis in dogs.
What is atopic dermatitis?
200
Apoquel is indicated in the control of pruritus associated with this type of dermatitis and also for the control of this type of dermatitis in dogs.
What is allergic dermatitis and atopic dermatitis respectively?
200
Treatment choices like steroids continue to erode not just the overall health of the dog but also this.
What is human-animal bond with their pet parent?
300
Pet owners spend an average of this many hours a day dealing with their dog's condition during allergic outbreaks.
What is 1.2 hours?
300
These 5 feelings have been reported from owners of itchy dogs.
What is (1) helplessness, (2) sympathy, (3) frustration, (4) stress, (5) embarrassment, (6) extreme irritation and (7) annoyance?
300
This is a biological therapy that works extracellularly to inhibit and neutralize cytokine IL-31.
What is Cytopoint?
300
This is a small molecule that works intracellularly to inhibit enzymes JAK1 and JAK3 once cytokines are activated through binding all of IL-2, -4, -6, -13 and -31.
What is Apoquel?
300
Pet owners whose dogs are treated with steroids spend an average of almost this many hours per week dealing with their side effects.
What is 5 hours?
400
This percentage of pet owners say their dog's sleep is interrupted by scratching and this percentage say their dog's scratching interrupts their family's sleep.
What is 30% and 19% respectively?
400
This percentage of pet owners of dogs who suffer from atopy say their dog's sleep is interrupted by scratching, licking, biting or chewing.
What is 60%?
400
Cytopoint is a monthly injectable proven to aid in the reduction of clinical signs associated with atopic dermatitis that lasts this long.
What is 4-8 weeks?
400
Apoquel is a safe daily oral medication that provides rapid relief as fast as and also without the side effects of this commonly used human medication.
What is steroids?
400
Steroids have an effect on these cells in the body.
What is every cell?
500
These 3 negative emotions have been reported by many pet owners about their dog's itch and as high as 8% have even considered euthanasia due to allergic skin disease.
What is (1) sadness, (2) frustration and (3) helplessness?
500
This percentage of pet owners of dogs who suffer from atopy say their dog's scratching disrupts their own sleep.
What is 35%?
500
True or False: Cytopoint is minimally metabolized by the liver and kidneys.
False. Cytopoint is too big to get into cells therefore making it impossible to be processed by the liver or kidneys. It is a monoclonal antibody and therefore the body simply breaks it down into proteins and amino acids as it would any other antibody.
500
True or False: Apoquel and Cytopoint can be used together.
True! Apoquel and Cytopoint can safely and effectively be used together to help provide itch relief for a suffering dog.
500
These 3 side effects have been reported with chronic steroid use and these 3 side effects have been reported with acute steroid use.
Chronic - What is hair loss, increased susceptibility to infection, thinning of the skin, calcinosis cutis, increased susceptibility to bladder infection, predisposed to type II diabetes, predisposed to pancreatitis, protein-losing glomerulonephropathy, altered electrolyte balance, latrogenic cyperadrenocorticism, fat accumulation, suppression of the immune system, lymphopenia, muscle weakening, pendulous abdomen, thinning muscle, and temporal muscle atrophy? Acute - What is polyuria, polydipsia, mood changes, water retention, weakness, suppression of cortisol production and elevated liver enzymes?