People with allergies typically get upper respiratory symptoms and ocular issues, like itchy, watery eyes, runny noses, congestion, coughing, sneez...
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The fact that you're using the flea preventative on a regular basis will help after two or three cycles....
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Flea bites often go undetected by pet parents because pet parents don't always see those fleas....
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A contact allergy is when a dog is lying on maybe a surface that has something that they're reacting to....
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Things within the environment that will cause allergies can be smoke....
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There are some tests that we have for allergies in dogs....
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The one vaccine that I know of is the Lyme vaccine for tick-borne diseases....
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Not necessarily, but it's possible because we are trying to figure out the whole picture of what's going on....
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No, it's not recommended. The exception is Gabapentin, but we use a formulation that's specifically made for cats.
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The diagnostic imaging itself is not painful. If you've ever had an x-ray or even an ultrasound, you know that that in itself is not painful....
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When I think about baseline, I think about "normal." So if we have baseline radiographs or x-rays, we know what your cat's "normal" is....
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By mouth is the most consistent way to get pain medication into the cat as far as absorption and things like that go....
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The safety of the pet, and like we said, most of our diagnostic imaging, whether it's x-rays, ultrasound, or echocardiogram, doesn't require any se...
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The way veterinary medicine works, we may seek advice and get an interpretation from a radiologist, but you wouldn't actually have an appointment w...
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Specifically for ultrasounds, if we're looking at the abdomen, we're often looking at the internal organs themselves, and if we're looking for a po...
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At home, there's maybe not a whole lot of things....
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If there's no sedation used, there's really no recovery needed, even with ultrasound. Most of our ultrasounds are done without sedation....
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Sometimes we may not get the diagnosis, but we may rule out that something else might not be going on....
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There really aren't any over-the-counter medications that I would say are safe for kitty cats....