However, lumps or lesions due to tongue cancer are not always painful. Other symptoms of tongue cancer can include swollen lymph glands, especially in the neck. This is called lymphedema and may be a sign that the tongue cancer has spread beyond the tongues into the deeper tissues of the mouth and neck.
If your dog needs a plasma transfusion or any other type of blood transfusion, your vet will match your dog's blood type to the donor dog's blood type. He'll also cross match the antibodies in your dog's blood to those in the donor dog's blood, to make sure your dog doesn't suffer an allergic reaction.
Rat poisoning thins the blood and your dog can have internal bleeding from it and bleed out and die, but vitamin K helps the blood clot. Your dog should not have any side effects from the Vitamin K, but it may not help forsure. Keep giving it to him though, as your Vet recommended because that is the issue right now.