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last week, well, we answered an email from JB and
his question was the issues introducing a new puppy into
a house with a resident dog. And I was about
to answer the question, and I left everybody with the
opportunity to kind of get a hold of me, send
me a text, and to find out to answer see
if what they think.
Speaker 3: Is the right approach is going to work.
Speaker 2: And interestingly, the more and more pet parents I talk
to when I mean not only parents of pets, but
I mean parents as well going through the same thought
process when they're going to introduce a new baby into
the household with a resident pet, especially when it comes
to a resident dog. And the question is how do
we do it? And my premise is just based on experience,
that most of you are going to do it wrong.
And I was hoping hoping that someone would say, no,
this is the way you're supposed to do it. And
I got a couple of responses and they were all wrong.
So here's what typically is going to happen when we
have this introduction. We know we're interested in getting a
puppy or a new baby's coming home. It's rarely a surprise, right,
and we know there's a resident dog. How do we
make it happen smoothly? So here's what typically happens. Of course,
the new baby, the new puppy is so exciting and
when it comes over, when it comes home for the
first time, we want to shower it with a ten
shower this puppy, shower this baby with affection and much
to the dismay, of course of the resident dog. It's like, hey,
what happened to me one of my top liver here?
And so what do we do? Typically what we do
is when the puppy is asleep, and certainly, as we know,
puppies are going to sleep, god up to twelve to
eighteen hours a day, new baby goes down for their
nap and then goes to sleep.
Speaker 3: So what do we do, Well, here's what we do.
Speaker 2: We feel so guilty about our resident dog that when
our puppies asleep, when the baby's asleep, when the new
boyfriend or girlfriend is not there, and what do we do.
We just pour on the affection to our resident dog. Okay, buddy,
we still love you. You'll always be our number one.
But meanwhile, think about it for a second. What have
you just taught your resident dog. You just taught your
resident dog that life is better without this new puppy,
without the new baby, without the new boyfriend or girlfriend.
So what are you, in essence doing. You are reinforcing
that life is better when this new entity is not there,
and this builds up resentment when this new entity is there.
And when it comes to a boyfriend girlfriend, well you
can maybe have some more options, but when it comes
to a new puppy or a new baby, you can't
have that. So well most of us naturally instinctively want
to do. Is not going to work. So here's what
we need to do. As I said, it's rarely a
surprise when I read these stories. You hear these stories
you read the throwaway magazines about someone didn't know they
were pregnant and all of a sudden, right the baby
pops out. That's not the way it works in ninety
nine point nine percent of the cases, unless this person
is extremely obese and not taking attention to most of
their lives. So most women carrying children are well aware
that they are and there's a due date, and there's
preparations and we know it. Okay, likewise, usually I usually
for again, someone coming over to your house one day
knocking on the door and say, okay, here's your new puppy.
Speaker 3: What new puppy? What what do you mean?
Speaker 2: So we know that it needs to be something that
is thought out, something that is well planned, and there's
going to be a date, a pickup date, and you
know it's going to be coming. You know, the day
you've decided yes you're going to go to that shelter.
You know when you're gonna call that rescue group. So
these are all knowns, so it's rarely a surprise.
Speaker 3: So what we want to do is the following.
Speaker 2: It is all part of the preparation and here's how
it goes very easy. So and this is you know,
I hope JB you're paying attention. This is how it
works that before the new entity comes, whether it's the baby,
whether it's a new puppy, whatever the case may be,
your chances are going to have purchased something that is
going to be associated with this, with this new baby
or the puppy, whether it's going to be pajamas or
a blanket that you're gonna the baby's gonna be wrapped
in when she comes here, she comes home from the hospital,
whether it's going to be a leash or a collar
or a toy that's going to go to the new puppy.
So what you want to do, since you are prepared,
you're very responsible pet parents, very responsible kid parents. So
you're gonna have something in advance. And the key is
this about a week or so before the arrival. As
I said, be it a child, be it a baby,
I mean, be it a puppy or a kitten.
Speaker 3: You are going to start.
Speaker 2: With drawing, with holding some of your attention to your
resident dog. And part of that withdrawal is going to
be not giving him or her her favorite treat. I'm
not saying be mean, I'm not saying to ignore. I'm
just saying hold back a little bit, and hold back
especially their favorite treat. They could still get some other
other treats, but not their favorite. And what you do
is you bring over to the puppy that collar, of
that leash, that true toy, whatever was going to be
given for the new puppy. You let the if it's obviously,
if it's a baby, it's gonna be the pajamas. It's
going to be a blanket, right, and you're gonna bring
it over to the resident dog, let them sniff, which
naturally they will, and just go bonkers with affection. Oh
my god, you're such a good boy. You're such a
good girl, and give that favorite treat. And you're going
to do this a few times a day for that
last week before the arrival. So basically, now what's going
to happen is your rook is going to associate that
smell whatever it is, with the treat, and they're going
to get this affection. They're going to get this attention,
and they're going to get their favorite treat and they're
going to start to like it. Then fast forward the day,
the evening whatever, the puppy comes home, the new baby
comes home, and you're carrying that new baby, and immediately
you're not going to show.
Speaker 3: The resident dog away.
Speaker 2: You're going to ask the resident dog to come over
and take a sniff. Of course, the baby is on
your arms, the puppies and your arms well protected, and
you're going to shower your resident dog with affection, give
that favorite treat again, and basically for the next several days,
several weeks, when the baby is out and around, when
the puppy is out and about, that's when you pay
a lot of attention to the resident dog. And here's
the clincher. When the baby is taking its nap or asleep,
when the puppy is in its crate or confined to
its pen taking its nap, you are going to go
back to that kind of ignoring the resident dog. You
are not going to make life better for them. In
the absence of that baby or that puppy or that
new kitten, you are going to kind of ignore them again.
And when are they going to get their major attention.
When are they going to get that fantastic their favorite
treat only in the presence of the new puppy, only
in the presence of that new baby, in the presence
of that new kitten. So what's going to happen is
they are going to start looking forward to having the
baby around. They are going to look forward to that
puppy or kitten because they know that their affection is
going to come when the puppy or the baby around.
And the truth matter is, guys, don't kid yourself. This baby,
this new puppy is not gonna remember any of this,
but the resident dog absolutely will. So it's okay to,
you know, have one of you, if it's a couple,
hold the baby while the other one is a showering
affection to the resident dog or the new puppy, whatever
the case may be. Is you are going to have
one parent working with the puppy or the baby or
the kitten or whatever it is, and the other one
working with the resident dog.
Speaker 3: Now here's another thing.
Speaker 2: If the new entity is in fact a person like
a new spouse, a new boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever, and again
there potentially could be this feeling of being displaced. So
what you want to do there is likewise, what you
want to do there is have the new person be
the one to give the hugs and kisses and to
deliver that treat.
Speaker 3: So now the association will be God.
Speaker 2: I like that new person around because I have not
gotten my hot dog or my favorite treat in three weeks,
and all of a sudden, this new person comes in
the house and I'm just getting all my hot dogs. Well,
you have to think outside the box, think of not
what you think will be better for the resident dog,
meaning now that the house is quiet, now everybody's asleep.
Right now I get to play with my resident dog.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: Now you start kind of ignoring the resident dog as well,
and wait till the new entity, whether it's a puppy,
a kitten, the dog, a new person, is there.
Speaker 3: So JB. I hope that answers your question.
Speaker 2: I hope you understand the logic behind this, because it's
sort of anti intuitive. It's counterintuitive to think that you
really want to pay more attention when this new person
or a new baby or a new puppy you're kittting around.
But that's the way it needs to be. That's how
you're going to minimize the resentment. That's how you're going
to build the environment where, if anything, that resident dog
is going to be overly protective with the new puppy,
overly protective of the new baby. And I have that
in my household because I have a granddaughter who comes
over and boy, one of my friendies, he is so
protective over this kid it's unbelieve And when even when
one of the some of the other dogs somewhere out
to play, he gets in the way and starts snarling
at them.
Speaker 3: It's like, ah, she's mine, she's my baby, and that's
what you want.
Speaker 2: You want to have this environment where they'd become very,
very protective. So anyway, that was easy for JP, right,
you know JP did. JP sent me an email to
Dr Jeff, Doctor Jeff at Petlife radio dot com.
Speaker 3: And here we do.
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Speaker 2: Now we first of all, before we go to the
other email from I think it's Devanni or Devaney.
Speaker 3: A couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Ago we were talking about we were finishing up the
eyes and one of the last stupists we talked about
was a cherry I and how disappointed and upset I
was in many veterinarians that to this day are still
performing the wrong operation on the cherry I. Now, once again,
for those of you that weren't paying attention, or those
that were asleep, or those of you that just weren't
online with us, Cherry I is it's a late term
for a prolapsed gland of the third eyeland. Anatomically, dogs
cats too, but this is more of a dog problem
has a third eelid. It's a little flap that starts
on the inside corner and when they blink, it actually
comes across the eye from the inside to the outside.
And it's actually sort of an extra protective mechanism from
things getting caught in eyes, which is very important because
dogs that are typically working dogs or hunters will often
go through brush and they would need some extra protection
because just blinking in of itself may not protect the
cornea well enough. Well anyway, on the inside of this
third eyelid, there is a membrane and there's a gland
called the gland of the third eyelid, appropriately named, and
it is a very lymphoid type of tissue and it
will actually sort of on occasion, and it typically happens
in more likely than not in the cocker spaniel, the
English bulldog, the loss ops or the sheetsu that it
gets so large it actually prolapses, It everts, and you
see this bright red thing right on the inside corner
the eye. Thus the name cherrye and old fashioned back.
Even when I graduated Veterinari school, the treatment of choice
was to simply remove the gland, and that was very
simple surgery.
Speaker 3: And these dogs did very well.
Speaker 2: However, what we've learned over the years that many years later,
it could be six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve years later,
these dogs will present was something called KCS karado conjunctivitis sicca,
and the late term for that is dry eye. And
we're I wonder why these dogs getting dry eye? And
we realized that that third eyelid, the gland of the
third eyelid, had another function, a function that wasn't necessary
as a younger dog, but becomes essential later on in life,
and that is accessory tear production. So what happened is
if you took that gland out when they were a
puppy and then they need the accessory tears produced by that.
Speaker 3: Gland, guess what, there are none.
Speaker 2: And that's how these dogs get KCS karato conjunctividis cicca.
So the new techniques also, once you do them enough,
they're relatively simple. It's certainly more complicated just lopping off
that land, but certainly can be done, and most general
practicians can do it. If you're nervous anxious about it,
you can send a case to a board certified venerari aphthalmologist.
But something that becomes for those of us to do
it or see a lot of puppies fairly routine. And
I had heard stories that there are some. Yeah, once
it happened on an emergency facility where a dog came
in on an emergency. By the way, folks, this is
not an emergency. If it happens, don't panic call your vet.
If they're closed, just wait till morning. No need to
run to an emergency center. It is not an emergency surgery.
There are dogs that can live like this with a
cherry eye for the rest of their lives. It looks
unsightly and there's some tricks needed to learn about keeping it.
But I knew a guy that he came in with
a dog was like nine years old. This said, I'm like, god,
it's so rare to see this as nine year old dog.
When did it happen? He goes, oh, about nine years ago.
I said, nine years ago. And you never fixed it?
He goes, well, I asked my doc. My doc said
it was no needs to fix. It was just aesthetic.
It didn't bother me. It didn't seem like it bothered
the dog. So there you go. You don't have to
fix them as long as they can keep it moist
so it doesn't dry out. Depending on the size and
how good the regular tears are, oftentimes you don't need
to do anything other than you live with it. But
this emergency center not only did surgery, but the doctor
who turned out to be a foreign graduate removed the gland.
Speaker 3: Clearly, I was very upset.
Speaker 2: Not only did they do the surgery, which it was
not the type of surgery to be doing on an
emergency at an emergency clinic.
Speaker 3: But they did the wrong surgery. So I put it
out there and I wanted to know if anybody has
had this experience.
Speaker 2: And I got an email back from Julie from Rochester,
New York, who states, sadly English bulldog and it was a
puppy who was six seven months old, had cherry eye,
not uncommon for English bulldogs, and the doctor removed the gland.
So Julie, I am, well, first of all, I'll still
a little bit shocked. Whatever I hear stories like this,
I always like to know how old is this doc,
where did this dock graduate from? Because it is something
that is so well known at this time that we
no longer do that. Anyway, if you're listening and you
want to get me the information just out of curiosity,
I'd like to know.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not certainly.
Speaker 2: I'm the kind of guy i'd call that doctor and say, hey,
what are you doing. We don't do that anymore, So
don't worry. Your bull dogs had to be fine for
a long time, maybe even forever, but just know that
possibly as he ages, he might start getting some dry Anyway,
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Speak of emails, live on the air. We got another
one this week. And it comes from it's either and
again I apologize because it's one of those names where
I can pronounce it a few ways. But it's either
Davany or Devanni. And she writes that she has two
Boston Terrier pug puppies and they have I'm going to
read it out loud. It says we can't get our
Boston Terrier pug mixes to have hard stool. The one
dog is worse than the other. The stomach seems to
be always bothering him. I don't want to pay my
vet for expensive testing.
Speaker 3: Help.
Speaker 2: We have pumpkin rice, yogurt, change their food, and she
even writes wean them off of the old stuff and
onto the new, and yet they're still having problems. So
interesting LYE Dvany, I'll stick with Devany until I know better.
First Off, from the diet perspective, it sounds like you're
doing things right. So a couple of things that I
would like to add to this, and that is, when
we have a chronic problem like this, and especially with siblings,
there are a couple of parasites that need to be
ruled in, ruled out. And in your note nothing was
mentioned about thorough fecal testing specifically looking for some of
the flagelets like giardia, and you also there's a test
that I'd recommend. I don't necessarily recommend it on our
first time fecal exam, but since this has been going
a chronic problem and you've done many things right, I
would want to do a analyza test looking for the
antigen itself for the giardia. We need to come up
with a diagnosis. Why because the diet, all the things
you're doing are perfect. But if we have behind all
of this a parasite that needs to be addressed, we're
not going to get.
Speaker 3: Better without treating the parasite.
Speaker 2: And in many parts of the country, giardia has almost
become an endemic problem. It's everywhere and it's very hard
to find. We look for GRD.
Speaker 3: Assists in the stool and sometimes.
Speaker 2: So difficult to find that. Though for basic fecal analyses
we do them in house, when it comes to a
chronic problem, one that seems not to be responding, I
like to send it off to the lab, have the
clinical pathologists look at the smears themselves, and also do
the GRIDA testing, which I think is an antigen testing,
which will give us more information. And if that's the problem, well,
by all means we need to treat that problem now
as far as diet and things like that. I mean,
if we think that the stool is softish, just to
give you a visual, and it might grow some of
you out. But you know what, when we're doing veteran medicines,
we kind of have to gross ourselves out sometimes. Kind
of that soft serve consistency. We call it a cow patty,
like where it's got a mush.
Speaker 3: It holds its shape. Not pretty, but it's more like
a PLoP.
Speaker 2: And if we have that, I usually am thinking, oh,
in addition to that, having a dog that is happy,
a dog that is eating, a dog that is still playful.
With all those criteria met, most likely we're dealing with
a large bowel inflammation. And as such, as such, we
don't like to use rice. Maybe you can use long
grain brown rice, but certainly not white rice. White rice
is too binding. And when we try to bind like that,
we might be irritating the colon. And clearly the colon's
not ready to be working properly, because if it were,
we wouldn't be having this tool of his consistency you
wouldn't be seeing any mucus. It would be holding its
form better. It would be better shake. So I love
the pumpkin idea, I love the yams, cooked oatmeal. You
can do something. These are all we call soluble fibers.
We also want to possibly some insoluble fibers. These are
the fibers that aren't digestible, things like cilium and the
active ingredient for example, of correctol or fibril or metamusil.
So sometimes we actually need to do both, and if
that still doesn't work, the next step is to actually
have a biopsy done, kind of like a colonoscopy. Either
your general practitioner if they are so inclined, otherwise it'll
be sent to an internal medicine specialist. They will go
up the colon with the skin hope actually look look
at the folds, look at the lining, inspect the colon,
and then take some samples and have the samples evaluated.
This could be some sort of an infiltrative disease, something
called oh. It could be a colitis, a lymphocytic plasmacidic enteritis.
It could be an eosinophilic enteritis or colitis, and these
often need special treatments or special even more specialized diets
to treat, sometimes even corticosteroids, and sometimes in addition to
metronitasol as an anticholon medication, we might put them on
a sulfur drug called selfhazalazine or a zulphidine.
Speaker 3: So there are other.
Speaker 2: Potential treatments that need to be employed. From what you've
done already, the diet, the fiber, that's fantastic, but what
concerns me is the fact that it hasn't worked as
well as we would like. So therefore we need to
take it to the next level. And that next level,
as I mentioned, is going to be medication, a very
detailed fecal exam, including a giord a test, an anigen test,
and possibly after that, if that still doesn't pan out,
then we're looking at biopsy and treating accordingly with whatever
specialized medication we can. So we'd love to hear back
from you. Let me know if you've tried these things already.
If you have, let us know, we'll talk some more
about it. And if you haven't, talk to your veterinarian.
These are some of the natural things that should be
next on your list of things to try. And then
try them and of course get back towards let us
know what has worked and what hasn't worked. So I
want to once again to thank JB for asking us
about how to introduce his new puppy into a household
with resident dog, Devaney for talking about her pug Boston
Terrier crosses, and we wish you luck handling that. Please
stay in touch with let's let us know. And finally, Julie,
so sorry about the cherry. I just crossing our fingers
for you with you that it doesn't become a problem
later on. But just know, even if it's a problem,
it's not.
Speaker 3: A terrible problem.
Speaker 2: There are some easy solutions, some eye drops, something to
increase the tear production of the remaining glands that might
get tired out, and just smartificial tears. It's not that
big a deal. But in the future, for everybody out there,
do not let a veterinarian take out the gland of
the third eyelid unless it's a last resort, and only
after you've visited with a board sort of fight veterani
aphthalmologist to give the green light if it really is
necessary to do that. So one of the things I
want to do, and I always have a backup in
case we don't get any phone calls, which today we didn't,
and I've already answered the emails, and I like to
go through organ systems. We've started, oh with the limping dog.
We've gone through the ear problems. You've gone through eye problems,
and what I want to do now, oh, the vomiting dog.
Speaker 3: Intestinal issues.
Speaker 2: So now you know I do see a lot of
rescue dogs because we do a lot of rescue work
out of my hospital. And another disease complex that is very,
very especially in puppies and kittens, especially in rescue animals.
And these are animals that have been living in rescue
groups or living in shelters or in foster homes where
the fosters, understandably so are fostering more than just one dog.
And most likely many of these dogs have been in
and come from a shelter. So, if you haven't guessed yet,
we are talking about respiratory disease complexes. And what is
so important about discussing this as a disease complex is
that the range can be anywhere from a mild infectious
tracheo bronchitis also known as kennel cough, which, by the way,
and I think I mentioned this before, I don't love
the term kennel cough, and I'll explain why, and we
get to it all the way to a mild pneumonia's
which can be lowbar pneumonias, could be interstitial pnemonions, could
be bronchiolarnemas pneumonia's depending on where the disease is taking place.
Two are a full blown pneumonia, which could include aspiration
pneumonia and how to tell an aspiration ammonia from an
infectious pneumonia. And then finally to some of the diseases
that can cause severe respiratory infections, notably canine distemper virus
and distemper virus is an epitheliotropic virus, which means that
it likes to attack epithelial surfaces, and one of the
first epithelial surfaces it likes is the surface lining the
respiratory tract. It also likes to attack the surface surface
lining the gastrointestinal tract also, so we see these animals
that have snotty nose, severe size of respiray disease. They
can have vomiting and diarrhea. It also likes the skin,
so we see these crusty noses and these that's why
it gotten many times if you talked to an older practitioner,
they call distemper hard pad disease because the pads of
these puppies that are stricken with distemper get very hard
because of the epitheliotropic properties of the disease. And lastly,
and the one that is the worst to have, the
one that really provides us gives us the worst prognosis
when we have to prognosticate, and that is when it
hits the lining of the neurologic system, and then we
have neurologic disease, and that is where we have the
poorest prognosis. Most often, we can maybe treat them and
possibly get them through the respiratory phase. We might be
able to get them through the GI phase. But man,
once it hits the central nervous system, that's a tough
one to be And if I have these puppies that
start exhibiting signs of neurologic disease, my tent, my take
is that maybe it's time to stop trying, because these
poor puppies are going to suffer. And even its interesting
talking about the neurologic symptoms of canine dis temper virus
is there are dogs that can present with just the
GI problems, just the respiratorying problems, or both, and we
get them better and they do great, and then later
on down the road, they could start exhibiting certain signs
of a neurologic deficit or neurologic deficits, and we refer
to that as O D old dog encephalitis. Not necessarily
that they're old, but they're older and they have no
other signs of distemper. So this was lying dormant in
the neurology tract. And so we have neurologic disease in
the neurosystem and that can cause a problem later on.
Speaker 3: Nothing that can't be treated. We work with them.
Speaker 2: It's not as severe as when it happens to them
in the active phase as a puppy, but it can happen.
And it's also, by the way, don't kid yourself, it's
not only a puppy disease. So when it comes to vaccinations,
I am all for vaccines. I am not for over vaccinating.
We've talked about this a lot, so I'm a big
fan of doing a tighter test and if the tighters
are accurate, are protective, no need to vaccinate. But if
those tiders are low, you need to get yourself to
a veterinarian and you need to take care of the
vaccines anyway. On the respiratory tree, so let's talk about
the simple viruses, and that is the puppy viruses. Number
one is going to be the upper resptoid disease complex
and that is probably one of the more common things
we're going to see as a puppy. And interestingly, kittens,
they seem to have more disease than just the restoroid
disease complex. They have their own, but a lot of
the kitten diseases have a phase that goes to the
restory tree, from chlamydia we call numiniitis, to the rhino
and Calesi viruses rhino tracheitis. So these are all kitten
viruses except for the Chlamythia chmmittee is actually a bacterium
that cause respiratory disease complex and the cats and clearly
the bacterial portion the chlamydia are news can be treated
with antibotics. There's not a lot we can do with
the virals. For example, the rohnod tracheitis. So our goal
of treatment is we can do There are some anti
viral medications that can be used. There are also some
ophthalmic ointments because part of this complex affects the eyes
as well, and so there are some things that we
could use, but oftentimes we're stuck with supporting these animals,
with using antibotics to could treat the secondary infection and
then we go ahead and hopefully itself. With dogs, however,
very common to see these dogs. And as I said,
I don't like using the term kettle cough anymore. Why
because it's no longer coming just from a kettle.
Speaker 3: I call it.
Speaker 2: Especially in Los Angeles, where we get to enjoy such
an outdoor, active lifestyle, we have take your dog to
Melrose cough, go to the dog park cough, Go to
the groomer cough, go to the vet, cough.
Speaker 3: Go to you know, take your dog out of the
neighborhood cough. I mean it is literally.
Speaker 2: Everywhere, so people, you know. And the reason I really
want to make the distinction is when that client walks
in the door and says, yeah, but I don't kendle
my dog. They never get boreded, so I don't need
the kettle cough vaccine. Not so if you go out
and about, if you are passing dogs on your walks,
it's respiratory.
Speaker 3: It's in the air.
Speaker 2: So chances are your dog may not be the source,
but one of those other dogs may be and they,
you know, pass each other, they sniff, you go to
the dog park, you.
Speaker 3: Go to the groomer.
Speaker 2: There are so many ways that these dogs can pick
up the respiraort disease complex. So I am quite the
fan of vaccine as a matter of fact. A matter
of fact, of all the vaccines, probably the border Tellerpronxosceptica
vaccine is our weakest of all. I don't tighter for
that because I find that it's not going to be
there's no way to tighter for it anyway. But the
truth matter is it is the weakest of the vaccines
that most of facilities that do do this boarding and
the grooming, the doggy daycare, the training facilities, you name it,
they're going to recommend bordetella every six months, and rightly so,
it should be done every six months. And for typical
dogs that are just backyard dogs just going to walk
in the neighborhood once a year, is probably fine. But
remember it's everywhere and you can't blame Sometimes you've had
dogs out to the vent or go to the groomer
and they're blaming the groomer. No, no, no, it's everywhere. It's
just like blaming the school, the kindergarten when your kid
comes home with a cold. All right, it's very hard
to stop. It's just it is what it is. And
a lot of times, like with human restroid diseases, kids
can go to school already harboring it but hasn't shown
symptoms yet because he's in that three to five day
incubation period, so no one knows the kid has it
and then passes it on.
Speaker 3: So just kind of keep those things in mind.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we are out of time. I want to once
again thank you for joining us. We'll be here next week.
We're going to pick up on some of the more
serious respiratory diseases that we see, some of the causes,
some of the treatments. If you have any questions and
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