Hi all,
Thank you for all the advise, I did get back in touch with my vet's office and requested to speak to her personally regarding the fasting instead of her office staff. As it turns out her staff had misinformed us. He is allowed to have as much water as he wants and the fasting is a minimum of 12 hours. She did say that longer would be better for the test to be accurate. It's a bile acid test. She said that she doesn't feel that at his age and weight there would be a risk of hypoglycemia shock if he were to go on a longer fast but he doesn't have to. We just run the chance that if the test is not accurate they'll have to perform it again. I was so relieved. I want to get these tests done. I'll be setting up the appointment for next week, hopefully. Again, I thank you all so much for your advise. I'm glad that I found this yorkie group.
Iris |