Sentences with phrase «occult infections»

Treating gut infections such as SIBO or candida overgrowth, or occult infections like Lyme disease, if present

«Single sex heartworm infections, host immune responses affecting the presence of circulating microfilariae and the administration of heartworm preventives can be factors which produce occult infections in dogs.»

Subsequently, eosinophil counts vary but are usually high in dogs with immune - mediated occult infections, especially if eosinophilic pneumonitis develops (< 10 % of total infections).

Your cat's veterinarian may suggest testing for occult infections such as feline immunodeficiency virus, feline leukemia virus and feline heartworms.

Steroids could be contraindicated in the case of occult infection; therefore they are generally avoided in current treatment protocols for this illness.

There is an urgent need for new technologies to detect these occult infections that are not apparent by standard quantitative PCR DNA testing methods, in order to prove or disprove the important disease associations that have been suggested.

While the vets and researchers may call this an occult infection, I might be inclined to call it a functioning immune system.

Other predisposing factors for GERD are occult infections or dental pain; medications, including many anti-inflammatory and pain - relieving drugs, and other chronic degenerative diseases, which cause a decrease in the blood flow to the digestive organs.