We often take our Greyhound to blood donation events and he always has a full set of blood tests. His Creatinine and Urea are usually slightly up but this last time they were up a bit more. The readings were 215.3 umol/l for the Creatinine and 10.3 mmol/l for the Urea. We took him to our vets and they were initially surprised the blood bank was making a fuss but repeated the tests and have found them to still be elevated. The vet is unsure what this could be in an otherwise fit and healthy dog. He's only 5 too. Apparantly it is odd for them both to be up? The vet is going to have a word with some other vets tomorrow and ring us back. I was just wondering if anyone else has seen this?

Creatinine and urea levels increase when kidney function declines.

Has your vet suggested a scan at all?

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Knacker Lacquer - Adds Luster To Your Cluster

No not yet, I am expecting that when they ring back tomorrow. However he does not appear to be showing any other signs of chronic kidney disease. What puzzled me is that they thought it odd both levels were raised.

Could be nothing. Could be an infection, could be dehydration.

May not even be a permanant problem.

Hope it goes well with the vet, please let us know what they say.

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I will do, I do hope its nothing serious but if it is at least we will have picked it up early.