So as most of you know, Butler has Valley Fever. He contracted it last June and was very very ill when i adopted him.
The way that they measure the infection is by doing a "titer" which is a blood test that dilutes the blood by half until there are no longer antibodies present in the sample. The sicker the dog, the higher the titer ratio. also, the longer it takes for the lab to get the results, the worse you can expect the news to be because it means they are performing more dilutions.
When i first got butler his titer was 1:132. so 132 dilutions before his blood was clear. then he came to live with me and got lots of babying and love (and medicine), and three months later his titer was 1:32. it had dropped 100 points! and then i took him to the vet wednesday to have it rechecked, and it came back today as 1:16!!! :D wooohooo! so happy for my baby boy.
The way that they measure the infection is by doing a "titer" which is a blood test that dilutes the blood by half until there are no longer antibodies present in the sample. The sicker the dog, the higher the titer ratio. also, the longer it takes for the lab to get the results, the worse you can expect the news to be because it means they are performing more dilutions.
When i first got butler his titer was 1:132. so 132 dilutions before his blood was clear. then he came to live with me and got lots of babying and love (and medicine), and three months later his titer was 1:32. it had dropped 100 points! and then i took him to the vet wednesday to have it rechecked, and it came back today as 1:16!!! :D wooohooo! so happy for my baby boy.