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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That's a big question. When I think of medications, I think of just simple antihistamines....
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Food allergies typically cause reactions in the skin....
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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....
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Most of the time, no, but it is possible depending on if your pet is painful, and they may not want to get in certain positions, and if your pet is...
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It helps us to determine whether there are fractures or bone issues....
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Not that I'm aware of and would feel would be safe to recommend.
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