#fecal smear

[iheartvmt]

Look who I found in a dog fecal the other day: Giardia spp!

We did the fecal because the dog had acute onset of profuse, foul-smelling, liquid diarrhea. In addition to the giardia, there's also some motile rod-shaped and spirochete bacteria swimming around. These may or may not be contributing to the GI signs; some bacteria are normal inhabitants of the gut, others are pathogenic, and some can be both depending on strain or circumstances.

We treated with metronidazole and fenbendazole to kill the giardia, bland diet and maropitant to help with the diarrhea and GI discomfort, and probiotics to help reestablish the good GI flora that will also get killed by the antibiotic. The owner was also instructed in good hygiene and environmental disinfection practices to prevent re-infection and zoonotic transmission (the zoonotic risk is low given that different strains of Giardia typically infect dogs and people, but we don't know if there are any immune compromised people in the household, so better safe than sorry).

The clinical signs quickly resolved, and the fecal was negative on follow-up.

((Sorry for the jumpy video; I had a hard time keeping these squiggly little dudes in focus and the phone lined up with the lenses at the same time 😛))

#veterinary #vet tech #giardia #parasitology #fecal smear #diagnostic testing #videos #LVT #licensed vet tech #diarrhea #client education #zoonotic diseases #one health

[contentment-of-cats]

Labs day.

Let's spin the wheel on how many tubes of blood come out.

#cancer #cancer survivorship #remission #health #schrodinger's cancer #colorectal cancer #get your colonoscopy because years of fecal smears didn't catch mine

[zanathan-aisling]

google search way to license your original, wikiable work so that it cannot be reposted on a Fandom company wiki site whatsoever

#god damn it this started as a joke but there MIGHT be ways to enforce that #i say MIGHT because i have no actual clue of peoples' 'free to reuse and reprint as long as not for use by the government or xyz' are enfor #enforceable or not #like just thinking about shit from an 'i want to be a Stories Of Cool Catalogueable Stuff Creator' mindset and i would neeeever want that #fecal smear of a corporation getting their roots in my baby #can't technically stop them i think but good lord every tool under heaven that was in my disposal and wouldn't threaten my own livelihood i #would weaponize eggregiously

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

yes sure autism as whole not like World Most Stigmatized Disorder plenty just as stigmatized if not more or differently (and also yes can’t objectively rank disorders based on how stigmatized and not stigmatized)

but need remember just because the quirky unique Just A Little Weird but Cute Shy Stimming level 1 autism (no not all level 1 like this am talk abt very specific) more talked abt and less stigma than say 5 years ago not mean all autism not stigmatized like am think about nonverbal autism or severe autism or level 3 autism or high support needs autism or incontinent need adult diapers / other people help toilet or pica or fecal smearing or eloping or violent meltdowns and other problematic/dangerous behaviors or comorbid severe profound ID like just because your form of autism less stigmatized doesn’t mean all autism less stigmatized

and would even say like even the most “acceptable” autism still stigmatized

autism stigma not just “Infantilize” But Cute & baby and No Real Harm autism also demonized especially if seen as “violent” “no compliant” “treatment resistant” etc restrained secluded locked up kept away from people it why you don’t hear abt it it why you don’t remember them when you think autism

(and also like infantize not just “treat as cute baby doll uwu no real harm” (also like “even” if u “only” do that that still harm) like it get people rights taken away labeled incompetent not allow make own decision and also locked up etc)

*​clarifying that am think infantize serious btw was try say that. was talk against people who don’t think it serious but personally don’t believe that

#actually autistic #actuallyautistic #loaf screm

[howlingday]

Dwarf lemurs line their homes with shit. Is that too gross to joke about?

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You underestimate my power...

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Ren: It's finally done.

Jaune: It took us almost five years, but we finally have our own house.

Nora: Let's grab some dinner to celebrate!

Ren: That sounds good. I'll grab my wallet. (Walks away)

Nora: ...So when do we tell him we used our poop instead of caulk?

Jaune: When he finds out. So... never.

Fun Fact! Fat-tailed dwarf lemurs will smear their feces to mark their territory on the baobab tree. The fecal matter provides a microclimate that aids in the pollination of nearby flowers.

#rwby #my submissions #jaune arc #lie ren #nora valkyrie #lemur!faunus nora

[hyenaswine]

i did not spend two whole years of my life with my nose in jars of urine, with my hands covered in shit, literally mixing up little shit milkshakes so i could do fecal floats & examine parasites under a microscope, doing blood smears over & over & over just to get the angle right, taking courses in clinical pathology, parasitology SPECIFICALLY, & zoonotic disease so some cunt NP on instagram could talk to me like this when she doesn't even know that yersinia pestis can & IS spread to humans from cats via respiratory droplets, OR via the rodent flea. i'm going to kill you to actual death.

[john-macnamara]

It's very cute that Mr. Mega thinks his refusal to read our leaks means anything. We'll continue sharing them, and people will continue reading them. But here, for you, Mr. Curt Mega, we have provided the medical report from John's time in the hospital after the ten days of sleeplessness he spoke of. Thank us later!

Mount Sinai Hospital Treatment Report: Johnathan S. MacNamara

Date of Admission: September 9, 2012

Date of Discharge: November 17, 2012

The patient was admitted to the Emergency Room at 6:24 AM, 09/05/12 and evaluated to be in critical condition almost immediately. He exhibited signs of septic shock, including: lung failure, kidney failure, liver failure, a blood pressure of 68/43 mm Hg, and a heart rate of 134 BPM. In addition, he showed signs of infection stemming from an abdominal laceration approximately 30 inches in length and on average approximately 2 inches deep. The exhibited signs included: seizures, a consistent 105° F fever, swelling around the wound, pus in and around the wound, and human fecal matter smeared across the abdominal region. The lattermost sign was not so much a symptom as an obvious cause.

The patient's wounds were immediately cleaned with heavy disinfectants and a tracheostomy was preformed. He was attached to a mechanical ventilator and the blood-oxygen levels slowly stabilized. Patient was admitted to the ICU for further treatment at 7:36 PM, 09/05/12. Injuries upon admission were mapped as follows:

1. Bullet entry and exit through right deltoid. 2. Large laceration across midsection. Shows signs of heavy bacterial and viral infection. 3. Second-degree burn in the shape of greek letter omega. 4. Electric burns on lower right back. Presumably from high-voltage taser or cattle prod. 5. Intense electric burns in genital and inner-thigh areas. 6. Hamstrings lacerated. Presumably to constrict movement of legs.

Upon admission to the ICU, the patient was administered a standard dose of penicillin. There had been no signs of consciousness since arrival to the hospital, however the patient did appear to be in a survivable state. Within the unit, he was attached to a dialysis machine and given a steady IV of saline solution and another one that contained water-soluble vitamins and nutrients. Once the infection showed no further sign of spreading, the patient was given an emergency liver transplant. This occurred on 09/06/12.

The transplant succeeded, and the liver immediately began to filter blood and further cleared the infection. The decision was made to keep the patient on the dialysis machine until the infection and subsequent sepsis was cleared, and after a partial recovery from the first transplant occurred.

After 57 hours of total unconsciousness and unresponsiveness, the patient was declared to be in a coma caused by toxic-metabolic encephalopathy. He was assumed to wake up within the month.

The tracheostomy ventilator was removed on 09/23/12 and replaced with a laryngoscopic ventilator. This was changed once more on 10/03/12 when it was replaced with a mask ventilator.

The genital burns required a skin graft, but otherwise healed normally without infection or complications.

At 1:58 PM on 10/09/12, the patient began to react to outside stimuli. He moved when touched and made audible responses to pain. Over the next few days, he began to react to auditory and olfactory stimuli in addition to touch-based reactions increasing in consistency. By 10/12/12, the patient could follow simple commands and had managed to open his eyes a few times.

On 10/15/12 at approximately 12:30 AM, the patient awoke in a frenzied state. He attempted to rip out IVs and pulled off the ventilation mask and appeared to be unaware of where he was. It took excessive physical force, but he was eventually restrained and slowly calmed. He fell back asleep soon after, but showed greater signs of healing by that point. The next afternoon, he gave an official record of what happened to him, which provided a more accurate method of how to treat him. He consented to a kidney transplant and went into surgery on 10/18/12.

There were no complications during the surgery, and the donor was the wife of the patient, Rosalind M. Schaffer. She didn't suffer any complications from the donation either.

After the surgery, he was moved from the ICU and into the recovery wing with a private room.

The patient was dosed on standard pain medication over recovery, and showed no infectious flare-ups over recovery. He was monitored for lasting impacts of his wounds or disease, and had gained a noticeable tremor in both his hands. He underwent physical therapy while in the hospital's care, allowing him to regain full motion in his legs and to lessen his hand tremors.

The patient was discharged at 8:14 PM on 11/17/12 with a clean bill of health and prescribed a pain medication for as long as needed. It was also recommended that the patient stop smoking, as his lungs had previously failed once and it could be a major risk factor. The patient obviously did not follow the advice, as he was seen smoking a cigarette the second he left hospital grounds.

#hatchetfield rp #hatchetblr #peip leaks

[conkreetmonkey]

Scientists have taught a chimp, a young adult male named Horace, to read Homestuck. After finishing, he made himself a little pair of horns from carrot tips and vines, which caused the other chimps to beat him up and throw him out of the group. As none of the other chimps in the facility had taken part in the experiment Horace was a part of, and thus had no context for what the fake orange horns meant, it has been theorized that the exclusion of Homestucks from public spaces is a basic hominid instinct.

What's more, after being rejected by his peers, Horace was seen drawing what seemed to be a crude Trollsona on the walls of his cage, smearing fecal matter into the crude shape of a horned humanoid, even using bits of undigested corn for the eyes. Horace would go on to refine his craft, eventually managing to construct a crude Davekat acrylic charm from dead mice and grass clippings, which are currently selling for 3 mangoes each on his Etsy page. There are talks about getting him an artist alley booth at the next con, but critics suggest his tendency to violently lash out at "ships he finds problematic" has the potential to turn a cosplay convention into a bloodbath.

Horace was last seen bemoaning having given his entire stash of bananas to the Hiveswap kickstarter as a teenager on Reddit, complaining that he could never recieve his branded USB stick as he'd moved zoos since donating.

#homestuck #chimpanzee #science

[kgbird]

I worked overnight last night and slept all day and it was great but I have to work tm morning and I kinda feel like going crazy but I think if I worked nights exclusively it wouldn’t be bad . Idk mt body just likes to be awake at night and sleep during the day. People come into the ER at 2 am on a Monday morning cause their throat hurts or their tummy hurts like bro. Saying it hurt so bad they could t sleep. And ur trying to pay several hundred plus dollars cause u can’t wait 6 more hourse to get to urgent care?

I was scared for ER cause I thought everyone would be dying left and right but I haven’t even seen the first stemi. Saw one possible suspected nstemi but she was so stable. Saw this neurologist on an iPad do a stroke eval on some1 but wasn’t my patient idk. Oh I was tasked to perform “digital fecal disimpaction” which is exactly what it sounds like it js. I couldn’t feel anything I was like hold tf still woman I’m tryna get this poop But even the MD couldn’t get it so I didn’t feel like I fucked up. Got an F in manually removing shit from someone’s asshole. Beat the allegations etc etc. Worry not sir/ma’am this isn’t the first time my finger has been in someone else’s butthole! Same w pelvic exams which I’ve gotten so good btw. Worry not ma’am this isn’t the first time my knuckles have been flush with a perineum! My guy friend is scared he’s not done one and ofc it wouldn’t be his first time knuckle deep either but I just told him the speculum gotta be way deeper than u think it ought to go. No even deeper. First one I did was so bad I cried. Second and third were meh and every time since I’m like in and out bada bing u felt me swab ur cervix no you didn’t I’m already outta there. Smear your pap, queen? They call me the cervix whisperer. The pelvic exam master. Std screen queen. Speculum master. Speculum queen? If u think of a funnier one lmk I’ll make it a button or something. Put it next to my pin of Leon wearing a g string and my pin of catwoman domming batman. My pin of king kong that you can move up and down the tower is there just cause it’s cool. I have a badge clip with 2 IUDs hanging off them that Bayer gave us I wanna wear it for women’s health. Maybe peds. But I’ve got inpatient peds so maybe that wouldn’t be nice. It wouldn’t be nice at all so I’m not doing that nvm. Goodnight everyone.

[micahtweten]

I read a note in a bathroom that specifically said don't smear your fecal matter where it doesn't belong.

First off I'd like to say, monkeys and apes do that in zoos, incarcerated people in prison or jail do that.

See the coincidence, caged animals do that. Why would you as person outside of a cage do that?

That's gross, and what would compel someone to think, I want to grab my turd and do that?

That's mentally ill.

[dr-ralph]

I need you people to understand that when I talk about how bad mental illness can get,, this is personal experience living in a city in hell (California). There are actual tent cities in my city, filled with mentally ill people & people addicted hard drugs. Being directly impacted by it daily is draining and miserable. It's going to your job in the morning and having to hose down the front of your building because some homeless dude deliberately smeared his fecal matter on the door & windows. It's discovering a dead body on the sidewalk in front of the church from a homeless dude who OD'd.

It's also being surrounded by people who think that just offering up housing to these people will solve the issue. No it fucking doesn't. The local homeless shelter is never at capacity. Most homeless people who aren't in the shelter aren't there because they don't want to abide by the rules, which boils down to getting sober/medicated.

I'm not saying there is no solution to the homelessness issue, it's just that this won't get solved if the homeless see living this way as preferable to living in society.

[omg-snakes]

Should I be worried that my baby corn snake has not pooped in about 2 weeks? Could they be sick? Granted, they poop a little bit here and there but they can't seem to get everything out. I feed them pinkies every 5 days, for the record.

Uhhhhh are you 100% sure they're not pooping?

If they're on a loose substrate they might just hide a tiny baby snake poo. Their poos tend to dry out pretty fast into just a bitty brown smear and it's easy to miss. They could hide it in a humid hide or under/around decor, too.

I'd recommend putting them on paper towel if they're not already, with limited hides/decor, and if you're not seeing a doo-doo within 3-5 days from their last meal then call your vet!

If you're seeing normal amounts of poo but still noticing a dark area in their lower abdomen near the tail, that could be just continually processing waste since they're eating fairly often. This could also be an indication that they're not warm enough to digest fully, so review your husbandry and temperatures carefully.

I'd definitely try to get a fecal exam done ASAP either way. You'll either get a diagnosis or some peace of mind.

I hope they're okay!

#answers to questions #text post #snake #snakes #reptile #reptiles #reptiblr #corn snake #corn snakes #baby snake #snake keeping #snake husbandry #snake care

[demonicbaby666]

Hey, so I thought I should be fair from now on and give you and @just-a-torn-up-masterpiece equal amounts of confessions. And as I sent one their way, I only thought it fair to give one to you.

Not too long ago I was experiencing an issue of the bowel, it’s not uncommon with me as you might now know.

I was only wearing underwear, just that flimsy material between me and what would become my victim.

I also happened to have a cold, I couldn’t smell much and I was often coughing. And one of those coughs was a bit too strong for my rectum to fight against.

I didn’t even realise at first, that a cough had squirted shit out onto the blanket beneath me. I couldn’t smell it and only found out later on when I went to the toilet.

Well, the next day my mother was using the blanket as I sat next to her. And I just watched the scene unfold. The curious look at the brown stain, the presumption it was a smear of chocolate from the biscuits she was eating, and the swipe of her finger to bring it to her lips.

What followed was a scene I watched with wide eyes, I can’t help but laugh as I recall it. The face she pulled at the taste was unmatched, the gags started soon after and she stumbled from her seat with vomit flying from her mouth.

Anyway, moral is, don’t shit on blankets.

- confession anon

Bestie wtf.

Your poor mother has heard you ravish yourself and, there’s really no easy way of putting this, consumed your fecal matter. This poor woman. Please, I will pay for her therapy. Homegirl can’t seem to catch a break.

Also thank you for keeping the balance between @just-a-torn-up-masterpiece and I. Very appreciated. I think… 😭

#confession anon

[dvnhams]

closed for: @ariaboughton location: some fancy-schmancy photo gallery in soho.

It goes without saying that David does not get art. Art is for people who need to be told what to think and feel as they stroke their metaphorical beards and go hm, yes, indeed at a blank canvas with someone's fecal matter smeared across the polyvinyl. That's kind of his job – the 'telling others what to think and feel' part, not the shit-smearing.

Fuck it. He's really just here to network and eat canapes.

"That's a vagina, right? My brain didn't just Freud that up out of nowhere?" He asks the person standing next to him, making no effort to temper his running commentary on SoHo's latest installment of black and white, pseudo-intellectual photography ripped straight from some rich NYU grad's DSLR. "Like, I get that it's not actually someone's vagina, it's part of a tree. But on a symbolic level – it's pussy. No?"

#( please let me know if this doesn't work for you skgdkshg ) #interaction | aria. #ariaboughton

[iheartvmt]

Bless my boss because she thought I was racing a timer while reading a fecal (I was actually just timing the float part while reading the smear), and her response was "Um... If that makes the day more fun for you, go for it, but seriously don't stress yourself out."

#lol #vet tech #veterinary #diagnostic testing #mental health #stress

[phatburd]

TBH I thought the new Tumblr app icon was literally a fecal smear someone had tried to finger paint. That seemed on point.

#tumblr