Vodka has no added sugar in it. It also shouldn't have residual sugars, like wine does. This means you can think of vodka as a pure mixture of 40% ethanol, 60% water. There is a very small trace amount of cogeners and other chemicals in it, from impurities in the distilling.
IDEXX Laboratories is in the process of rolling out a new test that they say âdetects kidney disease in cats and dogs months or years earlier than standard screening technologies.â Is the SDMA (symmetric dimethylarginine) test really the breakthrough that it is advertised to be? First some backgroundâ¦.
Dogs that are already on heartworm preventive medication should also be tested periodically. The âprepatent periodâ for heartworm disease (the amount of time it takes for microfilariae to be produced) is approximately 6 months in a dog. During this time, heartworm tests will be negative even if a dog is actually infected. Therefore, puppies younger than 7 months old are generally not tested for heartworms. Instead, puppies should be started on heartworm preventive medication (usually during their puppy checkup visits) and tested when they are older than 7 months.