Our company is developing, improving and restructuring faster than ever. Our goal, as always, is to guarantee we bring you the best-in-class service, products, support and digital tools. 2021 will be an important milestone for us and we look forward to celebrate and share it with you.
Spectrum Veterinary Staff
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Well, 2020 has been quite the year so far. While the data indicates many veterinary practices are on the road to recovery we still have a bit of uncertainty looming. Spectrum wanted to use this time to fast track some long-needed improvements to our lab tracking system that was just completed July 6th. These new improvements are the framework that will allow us to add more clinic and pet parent functionality in the future. We are very excited and sincerely appreciate our clinic’s patients during this transition.
Allergies are triggered by diverse environmental, dietary, and seasonal factors. Although hyposensitization therapy is often the best option to clear up an allergy, there are many ways to reduce symptoms and increase treatment effectiveness. It should be noted that, although these tips and tricks will decrease allergy symptoms, they alone cannot be the only treatment option. Best results are observed when these tips and tricks are used concurrently with hyposensitization therapy.
Topics: Veterinarians
COVID-19: The Impact
Health officials across the U.S. and all over the world are working hard to combat COVID-19. For veterinarians, this work includes providing care for pets: horses, livestock, laboratory animals, aquatic, exotic, and wild animals – all work that is essential and helps protect both animal and human health. Practices have had to put plans in place to protect their team, minimize exposure for staff and pet parents. They have had to scrounge to find personal protective equipment that even human medical professionals have struggled to find. But recent clinic data has shown some positive indications that leave some cautiously optimistic about the state of the industry.
Topics: Allergy Testing, Allergy Treatment, Veterinarians, serum allergy testing
Diet's Role in An Effective Allergy Management Strategy
Once allergy testing has been completed, a diet trial and hyposensitization are 2 other important elements of a proper allergy workup. This article will dig deeper into diet's role as part of an effective allergy management strategy.
Topics: Veterinarians, serum allergy testing, Pet Diet
The role of Apoquel, Cytopoint & beef-based reagents in Allergy Testing
Topics: Allergy Testing, serum allergy testing
Spectrum Veterinary – A Year in Review
Spectrum Veterinary’s vision for 2019 included expanding our sales leadership team across the United States, launching a new Group Purchasing Organization partnership and closing out the year with the acquisition of another allergy diagnostic laboratory. It was an exciting year for us and we are excited to announce that we accomplished all our 2019 company objectives.
We also tested 31,086 patients in 67 different countries in 2019. That is all made possible because of clinics like you who are committed to treating the source of allergy not just the symptoms. Kudos to you!
Topics: Allergy Testing, Allergy Treatment, Pet Care, Veterinarians
Hair/Saliva Testing as compared to Intradermal and Serum-based Assays
When it comes to diagnosing allergies, pet parents (and subsequently veterinarians) are faced with an increasing number of options. Intradermal testing, serum based assays, hair and saliva assay offerings can make it confusing for everyone to figure out which option is right for the patient's unique scenario. The popularity of hair and saliva assays has also been increased through websites like Groupon and Amazon by advertising directly to pet parents.
Topics: Allergy Testing, Veterinarians, intradermal, serum allergy testing, hair/saliva testing