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¦.
WBCs leukocytes. A microscopic examination for the presence of white blood cells is a standard part of your dog or cat âs complete urinalysis. Vets like me are happiest when very few or none are seen. The number of white blood cells in your dog or catâs urine is recorded as the number seen through a microscope using the high power lens (#/HPF). Less than four or five is considered OK. When there are more, it is a sign of inflammation â usually a bacterial infection somewhere in the petâs urinary tract (pyuria).