About the Symptom Checker
Easy to understand and up-to-date descriptions
What is the Symptom Checker?
Our Symptom Checker is a groundbreaking AI (Artificial Intelligence) tool for assessing disease symptoms in dogs and cats.
It is based on software we developed that allows you to find disease information matching your dog’s or cat’s symptoms within minutes. The program asks you a series of questions and, after processing your answers, provides a list of diseases and disorders that best match the symptoms you’ve described. Links allow you to directly access detailed information on symptoms, diseases, and further explanations. In this way, the Symptom Checker can help you better assess your pets’ health problems, monitor the course of disorders, and support their overall health. For particularly threatening symptoms and diseases, the software also provides a special warning.
- Check symptoms in dogs and cats and look for possible causes
- Monitor the course of disorders and ensure your pet’s healthy well-being.
- Get answers to individual health questions about your pet.
- Prepare specifically for a vet visit and get information after a vet visit.
If you don’t find the desired answer with the Symptom Checker or want specific questions answered, you can also chat with our virtual veterinarian “Petsie”. You’ll find them at the bottom right of your screen.
How Does the Petsvetcheck Symptom Checker Work?
Our Symptom Checker uses Artificial Intelligence methods.
With our Symptom Checker for dogs and cats, an interactive program unique in small animal medicine is available to you free of charge on our website. The Symptom Checker knows a total of 2,400 symptoms for dogs and cats, more than 1,100 diseases, and an almost unmanageable number of possible combinations. We developed the Symptom Checker in collaboration with the software development company Softwerk AB in Sweden. The Symptom Checker calculates possible causes for the specified symptoms based on your input and lists them by their probabilities.
Afterward, you can find more information about symptoms, diseases, emergencies, poisonings, and news in the field of small animal medicine on our website, as the Symptom Checker is part of our small animal medicine network.
Please note that the Symptom Checker is not intended to and cannot provide diagnoses!
How Can the Symptom Checker Help You?
Do you want to recognize symptoms in your dog or cat and better understand what they mean? Do you want to prepare for your next vet visit or learn more about your veterinarian’s diagnosisA diagnosis is the identification of a disease or condition by its symptoms and/or results from diagnostic tests. It is the first step in the management and treatment of patients.?
What Exact Steps are Necessary?
We will guide you through a scientifically developed questionnaire. Please be patient!
- Please select whether you are looking for information about dogs or cats. Click on the corresponding pictogram.
- In which body region do the symptoms primarily occur? Click on the body region on the pictogram or check the corresponding box. MultipleMultiple means manifold or repeated and is used to describe conditions or events that occur in multiple instances or at different locations. In veterinary medicine, this may indicate multiple lesions, tumors, or other pathological changes. selections are possible. Example: Your cat shows primaryPrimary refers to the first or original cause of a disease or condition, as opposed to secondary causes or symptoms that develop from it. symptoms in the head-neck area (nasalNasal refers to the nose and nasal cavities. In veterinary medicine, this can involve examinations, treatments, or diseases affecting the nose of dogs and cats. discharge, watery eyes), but also coughing. Therefore, in addition to the head-neck area, you can also select the chest (lungs). The body regions are now highlighted in color (dark blue). If you made a mistake, the marking can be deleted by clicking again.
- Please click on: “What symptoms have you noticed?” Here we ask you about some common symptoms. At the end of each question, there is a question mark. Here you can get information about the symptom.
- Using follow-up questions, the AI calculates the probabilities of possible diseases as causes for the symptoms you mentioned. Please be patient and further narrow down the search for the cause of the symptoms you mentioned.
- For the diseases suggested by the AI, the respective probabilities are given, indicating how likely these diseases or disorders are responsible for the observed symptoms.
The Symptom Checker is also available as an app
The health app for dogs and cats petsvetcheck
Whether it’s pain or fever: With the free Symptom Checker, you can find out where problems might lie. Petsvetcheck provides the most accurate preliminary diagnosisA diagnosis is the identification of a disease or condition by its symptoms and/or results from diagnostic tests. It is the first step in the management and treatment of patients. possible in just a few minutes. For this purpose, the app has been developed for years by veterinarians and scientists. It is trustworthy, fast, and available whenever and wherever you need a health check.
- Get answers to health questions about your pet
- Check your dog's or cat's symptoms
- Manage your pet's health
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