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Originally Posted by 4doggiemama  Thank you for all the information. This is what my vet sent me this morning:
Hi. How is chipper feeling? I read thru the site. Good points. I think one thing forgotten about the fasting is that it reduces the problem with lipemia. It can be frustrating to set up a test and find out that the day is wasted because the sample is too lipemic. I think that feeding him 8 pm the night before let us draw blood first thing in the morning then feed him right away won't take him too far off routine.
Any thoughts on what she said?
~Joanne~ |
what she is saying is there may be too much protein and fat in the blood to get a good reading if not done on fasting - i tend to agree with her - we as humans fast to get a good blood work up so i do the same with my dogs- some tinies cannot fast that long and where the problem begins i think and why centers may not deem necessary for those guys and she probably weighs more heavily on post numbers after food is introduced anyway as that is how you can tell if the liver is not processing proteins and toxins and it is bypassing the liver.