This Newsletter will include a guide to our ever growing web site, a Tear Staining excerpt by an ophtho, details on our acetic/boric acid products compared to another new shampoo on the market, notes about Specials, Trade Shows, New Distributors and more. Please look at http://www.dermapet.com to see our many updates, Protocols including popular TrizEDTA Bacterial Otitis, previous Newsletters, The Seven Steps to Treating Ears and the Pruritic Clinical Trial. THE NEW BROCHURE IS ON LINE.
Please visit http://www.dermapet.com or call 800-755-4738 for DIRECT sales. We also sell via select distributors such as Burns (http://www.burnsvet.com,) NLS, MWI (http://www.mwivet.com), PVP, Merritt and Vetpo. We now can provide you a dominant distributor anywhere you may be in the USA (including Alaska and Hawaii). We are available in Japan, Thailand, Korea and soon in Europe.
The MalAcetic Wet Wipes (containing 2% acetic and 2% boric acids) ave emerged as our most rapidly growing product. TEAR STAINS, post surgical wound cleansing, Dermatophilus and spots on horses (grease heel) are new indications. Every pet-owner should have a container on hand for a needy moment. For Tear Stains, we recommend clipping the hair with a #40 blade and cleaning with the MalAcetic Wet Wipes 1-2x daily . (Editor's note: We have been getting some anecdotal reports about the benefit of using the MalAcetic Wipes on tear stains around the eyes)
More on Tear Staining. , Seth A. Koch, VMD., MMSc., PC., Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologistis SKoch@AnimalEyeDoc.com has written the following:
Tear staining in the dog and especially in the small breeds (poodles, maltese, bichons, pekes ) is common but should never be called "normal". The reality is that these breeds have tiny hairs in the inner aspect of the lid margin that acts as wicks for tear accumulation. As well, the tear film is constantly evaporating and in a number of breeds there is overproduction of tears. The tear ducts which carry the tears down into the nasal cavity, in general, are totally functional. It is rare that the tear ducts are non-functional. Treatment is variable - the area in which the tears are stored can be deepened surgically; the hairs around the inner aspect which are causing irritation can be moved out of the way and there are a few other alternatives as well. Oral medication has been suggested as a means of chemically changing the metabolism of the tears and making the staining less apparent. Treating the skin irritation where the tears flow onto the face should also be considered!
In all cases the ophthalmologist should see the animal to give the pet owner the best of all the alternatives.
Web Site Guide
The dermapet.com site is quite simple to navigate despite it's ever-growing enormity. Along the top, there is a guide to lead you. On the home page we also have featured articles and products that change depending upon when you visit. There is also a What's New component in the center.
I strongly suggest practitioners read our Seven Steps to Ear Therapy. For example, the Bacterial Otitis protocol (Step 6) is considered by many to be an excellent approach to Pseudomonas. Under Protocols, there is a well-accepted, 3-prong approach to Malassezia Dermatitis. Under articles, there is one by Lou Gotthelf, (Saunders just published his book, Small Animal Ear Diseases, An Illustrated Guide). There is also an article by me on A Clinical Approach to Cases of Pruritic Otitis as well as one on Ototoxicity (Mansfield) and Behavior (Landsberg and Ackerman). Of course, you can also order from direct from the site.
SPECIALS
We hope you heard the marketing on MalAcetic vs Malaseb (DVM). We are advising all that is said about Malaseb efficacy is true about MalAcetic of which we have FOUR (4) products rather than one- MalAcetic Shampoo, Ear/Skin Cleanser, MalAcetic Wet Wipe and MalAcetic Conditioner,. These are all natural, safer and clean, brighten and degrease better. Plus, it's EXTREMELY UNLIKELY they'll ever be able to make this chlorhexidine containing product for the ear or eye where it can cause serious permanent adverse reactions.
Our MalAcetic Shampoo gallons are on special now at 20% off, AND Buy 3 get 1 FREE - Mix and match any of our gallons -
Plus Buy 3 cases of any 2 Products and receive a FREE Book, Skin Diseases of Dogs and Cats.
Buy 5 cases of anything and receive the FREE book (one time only) and a FREE Gallon of MalAcetic Shampoo.
See these specials at http://mwivet.com where we are listed on the front page of their monthly catalog. Thank you MWI.
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While on the trade show route, in Myrtle Beach there were two conferences. The first, the Southeast Conference, led by Ralph (and Martha) Lee and Ron Whitford, had speakers from all over the world. Lou Gotthelf led a particularly interesting Ear seminar including a wet lab; he's doing these, sponsored by MedRx, all over the US now. Lou will be doing one in Portland (July 9) and Las Vegas (July 16) where I may just stop by.
In Myrtle Beach, I enjoyed a special dinner while overlooking the ocean with Richard (derm guru) and Jenny Halliwell (they're from the other side of the pond at the Royal Dick Vet School in Edinburgh, Scotland). The Georgia VMA met in Destin, Florida attended by our own Chuck Michaels who noticed almost everyone had heard of the TrizEDTA (originally used by Georgia's very own Dick Wooley). Another association in search of a home, the NCVMA met in the more upscale part of Myrtle Beach, SC where old pal Marilyn Stiff ran the program. That left me in the State of SC 3 weekends in 30 days; enough to look at the residency requirements, tax advantages and to create a minor speech impediment, y'all.
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| Steven Melman VMD DermaPet Animal Dermatology and Behavior Clinics Potomac, MD 20854 |
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