Observation: The veterinarian will observe your pet's behavior, posture, gait, and overall physical appearance.
Vital signs: The veterinarian will check your pet's heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature, a
Physical examination: The veterinarian will examine your pet's eyes, ears, nose, mouth, teeth, skin, coat, limbs, joints, and abdomen.
Palpation: The veterinarian will use their hands to feel for any abnormalities or lumps on your pet's body.
Auscultation: The veterinarian will use a stethoscope to listen to your pet's heart and lungs
Laboratory tests: Depending on your pet's health status, the veterinarian may also recommend laboratory tests, such as blood work, urinalysis, or fecal analysis.
It's important to note that the veterinarian may also ask you questions about your pet's diet, behavior, exercise, and any other relevant information to help with the diagnosis and treatment of any potential health issues.
This is by far the most accurate fecal testing available! This test detects teh ADULT parasite BEFORE it has a chance to lay eggs! On more primative tests; the technician is looking for eggs that have been shed by the adult…if there are no eggs; this test is FALSELY reported as negative. Fecal Dx testing avoids false negatives, detects infections prior to eggs being shed intot he environment. This test detects Whipworm, Tapeworm, Hookworm, Roundworm and Giardia Antigen as well as eggs.
Yet another challenge with fecal flotation is that this method of egg identification lacks the ability to detect infections during the prepatent period or with single-sex infections, when eggs are simply not present in the infected animal. Because many parasites shed eggs intermittently, a specimen from an infected animal may still generate a false-negative diagnosis if only a single fecal flotation is examined. For all these reasons, there is a need to find a better tool for the diagnosis of the most common intestinal parasites found in dogs and cats….and THIS is why Dr. Salvo ONLY utilized the Idexx Fecal Dx test for gastrointestinal parasites.
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