Importance of Getting Full Blood Screen Panels for Your Dog

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So in talking about maintaining your relationship between you, your dog and your veterinarian. As your dog becomes older, it can become very useful if you start taking regular full blood screen panels. This enables your veterinarian to track how the dog is progressing as he ages or she ages taking a look at kidney function, liver function. So it's always a good idea that before your dog hits that geriatric stage, you get a base line blood screen. Then when you go and do your regular annual visit with your vet that you have an annual blood screen so they can check out if there's anything irregular going on. Often times you'll find things that way that you might not have seen actually if you were looking the behavioral issues in the dog. If your dog is on any type of non steroid anti-inflamatories for hip problems, then it becomes particularly important to keep track of kidney and liver function. Sometimes you will find things going on there that you wouldn't have seen otherwise. Again, doing a full blood screen panel on the dog is advised to do it before your dog becomes geriatric. Then every year certainly, maybe every 6 months talk about your local veterinarian about that what if the dog is actually on some sort of a pain killer to deal with arthritis.

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