<\/span><\/p>\nIf your dog tests positive for one of these disease and as long as you are testing at least annually there is hope that we will be able to treat your dog to prevent unwanted symptoms and loss of your pet\u2019s life.\u00a0 If your dog has Lyme disease or heartworm and it goes too long without catching, it could prove to be fatal.<\/p>\n
If you would like to have your dog tested every 6 months rather than just 1 time per year, you can certainly chose to do that.\u00a0 If you had your annual exam within 12 months you can get your Snap 4DX test with a technician to save yourself a exam fee from a veterinarian.<\/p>\n
Lyme disease can be challenging to pick-up on.\u00a0 Some dogs don\u2019t experience outward symptoms until its too late to treat.\u00a0 A problem called Lyme nephritis can set in and start to kill the kidneys of the dog.\u00a0 Once this problem starts, prognosis is very poor.\u00a0 The only way to prevent Lyme Nephritis is to stop your dog from getting Lyme disease and the best way to do that is get your canine family member good flea and tick preventative as well as a Lyme vaccination.<\/p>\n
Some statistics 13.76% of dogs tested are testing positive for Lyme disease that is greater than 1 out of every 7 dogs tested<\/strong> \u2013 how about the dogs that are never tested, we will never know.\u00a0 At the time of this article, 1 out of every 3 ticks are carrying Lyme disease in Butler County and that means if you have picked more than 2 ticks off of your dog, there is a high likelihood that Lyme disease could have been transferred.\u00a0 Good flea and tick preventative can help mitigate the transfer of the disease and the Lyme vaccine can help deter the disease from taking hold in your dog.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our clinic uses the IDEXX Snap 4DX test to screen for Heartworm Disease, Lyme Disease, Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis. We just have to draw a little blood from your dog to be check them for 4 common diseases. The\u00a0Companion Animal Parasite Council\u00a0recommends annual testing of these tick borne diseases in areas that are considered to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/public.morainegrove.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/public.morainegrove.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/public.morainegrove.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/public.morainegrove.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/public.morainegrove.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/public.morainegrove.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/public.morainegrove.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/public.morainegrove.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/public.morainegrove.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/public.morainegrove.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}