First puppy or kitten visit:
In this visit your veterinarian can have a complete exam to recognize congenital or acquired diseases and do deworming.Also having a schedule for your pet vaccination.
Annual check up or wellness exam:
To diagnose illnesses in their first stages
Sudden blindness:
The source can be from retina, glaucoma or nervous system problems
Redness eye:
Because of foreign body, conjunctivitis or KCS
Yellow Sclera:
Due to red blood cell lysis or liver disease
Corneal diseases:
White or red spots on the cornea or complete blue cornea
Unequal pupil size:
It shows nervous system problem
Eye discharge:
Foreign body or eye infection
Bump on the eyelid:
Cellulitis or tumor
Inflammation around the eyes
Because of trauma, fracture or dental abscess
A protrusion eye:
Most often something happened behind the eyes and it needs ultrasound
Painful eye:
It is impossible to open the eyelids because of eye illnesses
Secretion from the ears:
Ear infection causes secretion, itchy ear and bad smell
Runny nose:
Can be serous like water or viscus or bloody because of nasal problem or respiratory system diseases
Head deviation or twitching:
Nervous system problem or ear disease
Asymmetry face:
It can includes unilateral lip, nose and eyelid paralysis due to nervous system illness
Changing voice:
Due to pharyngitis or laryngitis ,lack of voice shows laryngeal paralysis and it needs immediate attention
Incoordination or ataxia:
Walking like a drunken , falling or rolling because of nervous system involvement
Neck or back pain:
Due to disk diseases
Flaccid tail:
Because of trauma or spinal cord involvement
Limping:
Lameness is occurred via fractures, nerve disease, tendon rupture , joint disease,nail problem or muscle involvement
Lack of defecation and urination:
Pain or nervous system involvement
Convulsion:
Primary:Epilepsy , secondary: consequence of liver or kidney disease
Collapse:
Due to cardiac , nervous system illness or advanced anemia
Color change of skin:
Due to endocrine disease because of accumulation of melanin in the skin or tumor
Bump on the skin:
Hematoma, abscess, inflammation, tumor, nodule
Scratching the ears, licking paws and around anus:
It shows skin disease which needs to treat
Licking around anus and scooping:
Anal gland diseases
Bump around anus:
Abscess or tumor
Hair shedding:
Allergy, internal parasite or endocrine disease
Severe scratching of the skin :
Skin parasites, allergy, internal diseases
Drooling and salivation:
Poisoning, internal diseases,choking
Tongue rolling or licking the lips:
Dental problem, gingivitis
Sneezing:
Nasal problems, foreign body in nasal cavity, tumor,Asthma
Coughing:
Laryngitis, tracheal diseases, pneumonia, cardiac diseases
Exhaustion:
Cardiac or respiratory system diseases, anemia
Lack of appetite or decreased appetite for more than 24 hours:
It shows your pet needs exam to find it’s disease because every illness can make this sign
Furacious eating:
Internal parasites, endocrine diseases, pregnancy
Losing weight:
Nutritional problem, chronic diseases
Bad odor from the mouth:
Dental problem, kidney disease, diabetes, gastric diseases
Mass in the mouth:
Tumor, abscess
Difficulty in swallowing:
Painful mouth or pharyngeal paralysis
Vomiting if it is repeated:
Esophageal and gastric illness, intestinal inflammation, liver or kidney disease, poisoning, food indiscretion
Abdominal distention and pain:
Gastric dilatation or torsion, intestinal obstruction
Constipation:
Deprivation from water, megacolon in cats, pelvic fracture, pain around anus,intestinal paralysis ( ileus )
Diarrhea for more than 24 hours:
Food indiscretion, internal parasites, poisoning, intestinal inflammation, pancreatitis, liver or kidney disease,immune system disease
Bloody diarrhea:
Black poo or fresh blood in poo due to bleeding from stomach or intestine
Vomiting with diarrhea:
It is emergency situation due to gastroenteritis
Accident:
Even minor accident needs exam because it can have delay to show the symptoms of system involvement.
Biting by another dog or wild animals:
Biting injects the bacteria in deep tissues which leads to inflammation and infection
Skin rupture:
Most often it needs stitch
vaginal discharge:
It can be pus because of pyometra
Frequent urination or unable urination:
Kidney disease, urinary infection, bladder stone or blockade
This situation in male cat needs immediate exam
Red urine:
Blood parasites, poisoning, bladder stone, trauma to urinary system,tumor
Color change of milk:
Trauma, mastitis