Feclab Dog & Cat Worm and Lungworm Testing Pouch

Doing frequent fecal egg count test is a great way to check your pets inestinal hygiene and health.

These Feclab test kits contain everything you need to collect samples and send them off for testing from the comfort of your own home.

The kit checks for the following worms

• Heartworm
• Tapeworm
• Roundworm
• Hookworm
• Coccidia
• Whipworm
• Giardia Cyst*

*If a cyst isn’t present within the test sample provided the result for Giardia Cyst will come back negative

What is a fecal egg count test?

A fecal egg count test takes a snap shot of that specific moment in time, it detects eggs of mature parasites that live inside the body of your pet, and pass to the outside via shedding into pets excrament. It is possible that at the time of testing the parasites may be too young to produce eggs, and if no eggs are being shed the infection can not be detected. Eggs in very small numbers may also go undetected and show a negative result, but this is an uncommon scenario.

How to take samples

• For Intestinal worms, 1 sample needs to be collected, for lungworm you should collect 3 samples, which should be taken the same time for 3 days in a row.
• Samples can be taken from any time of the day, but we suggest the sample to be taken from the first stool of the day.
• When collecting lungworm samples, make sure to store the previous days samples somewhere cool, they do not need to be stored in the fridge!

How to prepare your samples

• 1. Place your samples in the sample pots provided, using the gloves.
• 2. Place sample pots in to the leak-proof bag (clear bag) & seal. Please write your dogs name on the bag!
• 3. Place your samples (now in leak-proof bag) in to the box, along with your (completed) information leaflet and close the lid.
• 4. Place the security seal (as per label on the box) to seal.
• 5. Then simply pop it in a standard letter box.

Shipping the samples

All Feclab kits contain a Tracked 48, Prepaid returns envelope (excluding the Giardia Rapid Antigen Home test kit).
Kits can be posted in a standard letterbox, saving you the trip to a post office.