Preventative Care – Prairie Animal Hospital

Prevention & Wellness

Wellness exams are an important part of building our relationships with our clients and their pets. It also allows our veterinarians to detect early stages of diseases in apparently healthy animals. Early detection is crucial for providing the best treatment options for your companion for as long as possible. Our wellness services include everything from new puppy exams to senior patient services. This includes things like vaccinations, parasite prevention, and preventative care lab work panels. Annual exams are an important part of keeping your companion happy and healthy - with our loyalty program you can now be rewarded for staying up to date with these services!

Why check blood, urine, and stool?

Pets can’t always tell us how they feel, so we rely on more than just a physical exam. While exams are important, they don’t show how the kidneys, liver, or blood system are working. Routine lab tests—such as blood, urine, and fecal checks—give us a clearer picture of your pet’s overall health on the inside. We partner with leading veterinary labs to offer thorough testing at every stage of your pet’s life. Early detection places a critical role in preventing disease and chronic conditions.

Blood samples check the state of your pets fuel system, their red blood cells, white blood cells, glucose, immune system, kidneys, liver and other blood protein values.
Urine samples not only check for infections and abnormal cells, but also are important in fully evaluating how your pets kidneys are filtering toxins built up in your pets body.
Fecal Screening allows us to check for internal parasite that are not always visible in stool samples and many of which can be spread from pets to people.

Prevention is Best Medicine

Vaccines are recommended beginning from 8 weeks of age, for the duration of your pet's life. We recommend vaccines based off of your pet's lifestyle and environment. The same goes for parasite prevention! With the ease of travel, we are seeing more parasites in the area that used to not be as relevant to our preventative care protocols. We carry products that we believe provide the best flea, tick, heartworm and intestinal parasite prevention in all the ages and breeds. Your veterinarian will discuss all these things at every wellness appointment.

Supporting Our Seniors

As our pets age, organ function can decrease resulting in chronic conditions that can affect your pet's quality of life. These changes are most often detected in our pet's thyroid, kidney, and liver function. Some pets can even develop diabetes as they age (in conjunction with other factors). We recommend running preventative care panels annually on our seniors so our veterinarians can detect these changes before they can severely affect our pet's quality of life. Most of these changes can be well managed over time if caught early on in development.

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