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Animal Alternative and Complimentary Clinic
Dr. Trish Kallenbach, DVM
1821 South Suncoast Blvd
Homosassa,Florida 34429
(352)
795-0250
Dr. Trish Kallenbach, DVM 1821 South Suncoast Blvd
Homosassa,Florida 34429
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An area that has much opinion and debate about regarding our pets' health is vaccinations. For many years veterinarians have administered multiple annual vaccines with the understanding that they were providing an important preventative health measure for their client and patient. As decades have past, we have seen an increase in reactions to the administration of some of these vaccines. These reactions can be as subtle as just being "off" for a few days after the vaccines, to having allergic reactions causing hives, to the most life threatening anaphylactic reactions. Is there any connection or progression through these stages of vaccination reaction in our pets and should we not be paying more serious attention to the earlier signs to prevent the more serious reactions? There is also growing concern about vaccine preservative content and toxicity, quality of the different vaccines regarding safety and reliability of the companies producing the vaccines as well as the number of vaccines and antigens administered all at the same time. Any number of these very real factors can have an effect on your pet. There are questions coming more to the forefront regarding whether these pets needs these vaccines in such a frequent and repetitive pattern. We receive many vaccines as children and maintain immunity for our entire life so does this happen with our pets? Do certain factors reduce the efficiency of our pets immune systems and should these be more heavily evaluated as a part of making the decision to vaccinate or not? There is a simple blood test that can be done for most all of these vaccines to determine how much immunization memory is retained by the body weeks, months or years after vaccine administration. These are reliable tests relied upon across the world to determine immunity for import and export of pets. Can these "blood titers" not be relied upon more heavily to evaluate |