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Message: [QUOTE="keith167, post: 1978005, member: 80804"] UPDATE: Judy is doing much better. She's eating, basking and acting normal. Here are her Blood Test Results and the Vets comments. Attached is Judy's bloodwork. The toxic heterophils and azurophils are indicative of infection/inflammation. The bloodwork cannot specify where the infection/inflammation is coming from. Based on clinical signs and whether or not there are other bloodwork abnormalities is how we choose which treatment protocol to start. The other abnormalities you will see are elevated Total Bile Acids - this value is not terribly useful alone and in a study done in bearded dragons specifically they saw a large variation in the bile acids level on a daily basis so a single elevated value in the absence of other clinical signs is not useful or indicative of any particular problem. The Creatinine Kinase is indicative of tissue damage, which can be from something as simple as the blood draw itself. Or if there is inflammation it can also cause some elevation. So this value is also not very useful. [/QUOTE]