Determine if you dog has heartworms

To determine the presence of heartworms, your veterinary will perform a blood test on your dog.  The blood test will allow the doctor to determine the presence of an a product released by the female worm. This particular diagnosis is very specific to heartworms and tests are accurate more than 90% of the time. Sometimes, negative results can happen, due to a too low number of worms, early stage infections or no presence of female worms in the dog.

After your dog has been tested positive to this first blood test, you can also get your vet to test for the presence of microfilariae (larvae), using concentring filter test.

X-Rays

Finally X-ray can be done to evaluate how much lung damage has been caused by the heartworms. It is important to treat your dog with heartworm medicine every year to prevent the infestation by worms.

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X ray are performed to determine the amount of damages done to the lungs

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Don’t let your dog suffer, treat him with heartworm medicine.