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Published on: March 14, 2024 • By: Cambar80 · In Forum: Dogs
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Cambar80
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March 14, 2024 at 12:39am
An someone please explain these tox bloods I had done on my 4 yr old vizsla, he had shots 3 weeks earlier from someone else he was 6-7 kg under weight,when I picked him up I took him to vet up north and asked for tox bloods to see if he had ingested anything bad,vet said he was ok but isn’t,
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March 14, 2024 at 12:40am
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Liz Buchanan BVSc MRCVS
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March 14, 2024 at 09:39am
Hello - I'm afraid that we don't interpret bloods on this site; bloods should be interpreted in light of the animal you're looking at / the problem that you're trying to solve.  However, I can tell you a few things that you might find helpful.
  1. First, those zones - the top middle and bottom zones and the ghastly blue and red colours.  They just represent an absolutely normal typical animal based on the averages from lots of different animals (that's on the fancy veterinary blood machines - a surprising number of vets in the UK use ex-NHS-blood machines, so they're adjusted to compare your dog to the typical values for people!)  What I'm driving at, is that the zones were certainly not put there with your particular dog in mind.
  2. So..... on blood machines, we look at trends rather than pinicket about the numbers.  If the 'safe zone' is 6-8.5, then statistically a certain number of normal animals might have a value of 8.55 or even 8.9 - the boundary value has to be drawn somewhere, but some normal animals will fall outside it (this concept relates to normal distribution curves - see mathematical statistics - its not my specialist area).  Furthermore, different breeds will have slightly different normal values.
  3.  Most dogs having their blood tested are, at best, a bit stressed cos they're in the vets.
  4. Therefore, vets interpret blood results in context.  'Is that value realistic and healthy for the animal standing in front of me?' not  'Do those values fit perfectly into the figures offered by the machine?'
  5. Depending on what the vet is looking for, sometimes values within the so called 'normal range' can be concerning.  In dogs with Addisons for example, a dogs' potassium level is assessed relative to the sodium level, not whether its in the green bit or the red bit.  If I've just drunk a pint of fresh orange juice, my gucose will proably be above the normal sugar level - but we would know why this was happening
  6. What vets are looking for on the bloods, is levels that they can't explain.
I hope that something here is useful.
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Liz Buchanan BVSc MRCVS
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March 15, 2024 at 01:27am
You say that your pup isn't ok at the moment, but I'm not entirely sure what the symptoms are.  If something isn't right, always contact your vet again, especially concerning youngsters.  It is possible to be ill with normal-looking blood tests.  Best of luck to both of you - please will you let us know how you get on?
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