Detection of preñez
A new analysis of blood to determine if a dog is pregnant has sent to the market under the name ?ReproCHEK? by Synbiotics.
The test determines the level of the hormone prolactose that can indicate if a dog is in period of gestation. The test can be used in dogs from the 21-35 days of preñez, and can be made in the Clinic or doctor's office of the Veterinary Doctor.
Commentaries:
The preñez of a dog normally is diagnosed by palpación but just she is effective as of the 30 days of gestation. If a tense dog the abdominal muscles or if is obese, it is difficult or impossible the veterinarian to discover a preñez accurately. This test will be valuable in such situations and also, to discover the preñez much more before, helping like diagnosis differential of the false preñez or pseudopreñez, in which the dog can have physical and conductuales signs that they indicate that it is pregnant when really, the operating pathology is desbalance hormonal.