Glad to hear things are getting back to normal. Poor Oz, feel better sweet thing. I used to give Zoe about 1/2 tablespoon when she was about 20 pounds to firm up her stool. Never had to worry much about constipation for that girl:rolleyes::rolleyes:
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Glad to hear things are getting back to normal. Poor Oz, feel better sweet thing. I used to give Zoe about 1/2 tablespoon when she was about 20 pounds to firm up her stool. Never had to worry much about constipation for that girl:rolleyes::rolleyes:
How is Oz and his tummy troubles, well and truly settled down I hope :D I hate Tuesday's, it is such a blah day and seems ages to the weekend so hope yours is going better!!
Lots of pats for the Aussie boys!!! xxxxx
Hey Trish,
He's settled down but we went to the vet on Monday anyway, even if the tummy was ok we still had manky feet, vaccinations and cartrophen to discuss so it was never going to be a wasted trip :D. She gave him a full work over, found some tenderness in his tummy she was a bit concerned about so is running a full blood panel and urine sample anyway. Suits me, I had been thinking about asking for one just for peace of mind so that's cool - just hope peace is granted hey? She also did a cytology test on his feet and found a bacterial infection of some weird but apparently quite cool to watch strain (they move in circles around the hair shaft apparently :eek:), so that explains why he has been chewing the fur out of the top of his feet. 2 weeks of antibiotics is the plan to clear that up. Here's hoping, his toes are bald! (and I thought it was his grass allergy :o)
No vaccinations or cartrophen till we get the bloods back which is hopefully today, just hope to god he had some tummy virus or infection or something, not another issue brewing, we've all had enough. Especially he was the one that started the funding drain by jumping off a wall and rupturing both cruciates in his knee!
Will let you know what I hear about bloods, right now I have to get going for work, would rather spend the day in bed. Too exhausted at the moment and the next few weeks aren't going to get any quieter. Assessments, reports, 3 concerts and an international school tour? Roll on July 10 when it's all over and I have 1.5 weeks of holidays! :o
Lordy, I am exhausted reading what you have to do in the next few weeks! You will need a month off not a week or two!
Have you got the results? I have everything crossed for good things for Oscar... really hoping it is nothing much too but good to get it investigated.
Oh no about the non grass allergy now being a bacterial infection, poor wee man. But I am kind glad I am not the only one to misdiagnose my dog... I thought Flynn was getting fat a couple of years ago so put him on a diet, unbeknown to me he was developing his huge 650g liver tumour and when they took it out it he looked so much skinnier :eek::eek: Poor dog nearly died while I was making him diet :rolleyes: Bad bad dog Mummy I am!!!
Good luck with results, will be keeping an eye out for sure!!
Ozzie's blood panek is back, everything pretty nomal with no major concerns. CK slightly elevated at 239 (47-228) but vet said that could still be high from muscle exertion of throwing up thursday and friday, and calcium a bit low 1.98 (2.2-2.8) She's recommended we find a calcium supplement for this. Otherwise, no overt reasons showing up for why this happened. He's been good since, but if he does anything like it again, we will go for ultra sound, and then if nothing shows up there, look into neurological avenues. At this point I'm just happy that nothing unexpected or serious turned up and am firmly hoping that hejust ate something that his gut objected to. Poor little sprite, at least I found his socks again (thought I'd lost them a few weeks ago :o)
So the next question for the resident experts aka armchair vets, has anyone used or knows of a calcium supplement that they could recommend?
Hey Trish, yes nice to have an answer for all, especially the feet. And even though he has the infection, he is still allergic to grass anyway, has been for years. Given the preference, he will walk the long way around at a park if there is a concrete path on the outside, anything to avoid it. He will even head straight to sand patches if there are any coz even he know the grass sets his feet off. He's a smart little cookie. He knows too that clover has prickles in it and will pick his way around it rather than get a prickle in his foot. It's very cute to watch him go slowly and delicately to avoid it. Of course, now that I won't let him outside at the park without his socks, that's not so much of an issue. But it does mean that we now have to wash the socks in antibacterial after every walk, no point re-infecting if we are trying to kill it off with antibiotics!
Life is never boring is it??? Wish it would be though ;)
Phew what a relief!! Awesome news for Oscar and you!! So pleased everything was good :D:D Hmmmm I have not needed to use a calcium supplement so no use to you there, but I am sure someone will have a tip for you! I do know in humans with low calcium they can vomit so wondering if it can happen with dogs too and that could be cause of his upset tum??? I am sure you are googling as we speak to see what causes low calcium. Might have a look myself too!
Hmmnn, will look into that thanks. Off for a walk now before it gets much darker or colder. Have a great night, and good news about flynn too! Good news all round really :D
I did have a look at it, one possibility made my ears prick up.. pancreatitis. Maybe he had that and he had the crook tummy which caused low calcium?? Chronic renal problems was another but his renal tests are good aren't they so we can discount that. Lily toxicity?? I guess he would be sicker if he had brushed up against a lily?
Others you could rule out with his current blood tests
(hypoalbuminemia) due to some other problem or disease, it also affects the total calcium level. Although it accounts for more than 50 percent of hypocalcemia cases, low levels of calcium associated with hypoalbuminemia are not generally associated with any symptom.
•Hypomagnesaemia (low levels of magnesium in the blood)
Others:
•Poor calcium absorption in the gut
•Alkalosis (condition in which the body fluids have excess base alkali)
•Hypoparathyroidism (Inadequate secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally low levels of calcium in the blood)
•Nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism
I have ruled out all of these ones because they just not our Oz!:
Hypoparathyroidism secondary to surgical removal of the thyroid gland (thyroidectomy
•Rickets (early age disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus)
•Puerperal tetany (Clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and seizures; associated with calcium deficiency [hypoparathyroidism] or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis)
•Phosphate-containing enemas used in patients with severe constipation
•Citrate toxicity in patients with multiple blood transfusions were conducted for some other health problem
Lol, no you can pretty much rule all of that last stuff out, poor absorption may be it, who knows. All his bloods for pancreatitis etc were perfectly fine, no issues there. There is the potential that there is something growing in there that wont show up on the bloods, but I choose not to think about that right at this point. I have found out that dogs can loose calcium if they have a high phosphorous diet, which my two do as they have a home cooked heavy on the meat diet. I'll look into a supplement and monitor it from there, at the moment I don't want to scan as I won't be able to do anything about it if there is a nasty, an infection would have shown up and therefor ignorance for another month or two will be bliss.
At least Fraser's calcium levels are ok, they were measured not too long ago and were good. Maybe the higher calcium concentrations with cushing's helped offset the high phosphorous. Has to be a bonus somewhere doesn't there?
Oh well, for now he is good, that's what counts.