Yes, you can use hair for a DNA test, but only if the sample includes the root or follicle. Hair is one of the most misunderstood forensic and consumer samples. The shaft is mostly dead keratin and contains almost no nuclear DNA.
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In the United States, no federal law gives you the right to take bereavement leave for a pet, and most employer policies do not cover it. A minority of organizations now offer explicit pet bereavement leave, typically 1 to 3 paid days.
Continue reading →Yes, amoxicillin can be used for an ear infection, but only for acute otitis media (AOM) caused by bacteria, and only after age and severity are factored in.
Continue reading →Yes, a urinary tract infection can be transferred to someone else, but the probability depends heavily on the route of exposure and the biology of both people involved.
Continue reading →Yes, chlorhexidine gluconate can be used on dogs, but only in veterinary formulations at correct dilutions, and never as a substitute for diagnosis.
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No. You cannot safely treat salt poisoning (hypernatremia) in a dog at home, and attempting to do so is more dangerous than the poisoning itself in many cases.
Continue reading →Can you treat parvo in dogs at home safely? In most cases, no.
Continue reading →Yes, you can survive without a prostate gland. The prostate is not essential for life, and roughly 100,000 to 130,000 American men undergo surgical removal of the gland each year, according to the American Cancer Society.
Continue reading →No, you cannot currently test for a chemical imbalance in the brain in any clinically accepted way.
Continue reading →Yes, under specific conditions. A skilled sonographer using transvaginal ultrasound can sometimes infer fetal sex at 11 weeks by spotting the direction of the genital tubercle, and cell-free DNA screening can do it with over 99% accuracy…
Continue reading →No, you cannot tear your sciatic nerve by stretching, sitting, or lifting the way you might tear a muscle.
Continue reading →Yes, an SSRI and an NDRI can be taken together, and the combination is common in clinical practice. The best-known example pairs an SSRI with bupropion, the only NDRI approved in the United States.
Continue reading →Sometimes yes, sometimes no, and the decision hinges on which beta blocker, which asthma phenotype, and how severe the airway disease is.
Continue reading →Yes, you can take tongkat ali with testosterone safely for most people, but "safely" depends on what your testosterone is doing right now and why. The plant does not add testosterone the way an injection does.
Continue reading →Yes, you can physically take most statins every other day, and for some patients the cholesterol-lowering effect holds up. But intermittent dosing is not a free swap for daily therapy.
Continue reading →No, you generally should not take a triptan in the final hours before surgery.
Continue reading →Yes, in most cases you can take vancomycin with a penicillin allergy. Vancomycin is a glycopeptide antibiotic, not a penicillin, and it shares no structural feature that would make a penicillin-allergic immune system recognize it.
Continue reading →Yes, you can take two antipsychotics at the same time, and doctors do it deliberately in certain situations. The practice is called antipsychotic polypharmacy, and it means taking more than one antipsychotic medication concurrently.
Continue reading →Yes, you can take taurine and L-arginine together, and no known pharmacokinetic interaction prevents it.
Continue reading →Yes, you can take slippery elm and marshmallow root together. Both are mucilage-rich botanicals with overlapping but non-identical mechanisms, and no established pharmacokinetic interaction predicts harm from combining them.
Continue reading →Yes, you can usually take propranolol while breastfeeding. It is one of the beta-blockers most often recommended during lactation because very little of the drug reaches breast milk.
Continue reading →Yes, you can take St. John’s wort and magnesium together. No known pharmacokinetic interaction exists between the two, and they act on entirely separate systems: magnesium on ion channels and enzyme cofactor chemistry, St.
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