Not eating or drinking water
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Vet call me at work around 4:00 after discussing his still ongoing issues she asked me to bring in him after work. She re examined him, more x-rays. She is concerned he is still vomiting and agrees with me the force feeding should be a last option. So she hospitalized him overnight and is going to do IV fluids and nutrients. ( he had lost another 1 1/2 lbs in 3 days) Going to do a more intensive blood panel test, urinanalysis and possibly ultra sound in the morning. He had become dehyrdated again.
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Vet call me at work around 4:00 after discussing his still ongoing issues she asked me to bring in him after work. She re examined him, more x-rays. She is concerned he is still vomiting and agrees with me the force feeding should be a last option. So she hospitalized him overnight and is going to do IV fluids and nutrients. ( he had lost another 1 1/2 lbs in 3 days) Going to do a more intensive blood panel test, urinanalysis and possibly ultra sound in the morning. He had become dehyrdated again.
Poor baby.. but you did the right thing… and on fluids... They also make a doggy "ensure" product that you can get at petco or pet smart... once he is home... they are very high in calories
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I can not believe all the things poor Cody has to go through…I hope the will find something concrete to tell you so you don't have to do this wild goose chase.
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ivoss-my vet is not strong supporter of barium swallow b/c if they have to surgically open the digestive track open they don't like to have the barium in the system that could leak out.
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Heard back from the vet this morning. Cody is more active since getting fluids etc. stopped vomiting, but still won't eat. All blood work red/white blood count etc came back normal. Urninanalysis showed a little high on proteins but they think that b/c he's dehydrated. Glucose came back normal. They are now taking the x-rays they took last night to the med-vet I took him to on wed. night to compare the x-rays and get a 2nd opinion. They also want to run a test for Addisions's disease. Has anyone heard of that?, have any experiance, or heard of a basenji having it?
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very sorry to hear about Cody, hopefully the vet will now get to the bottom of it. What a worry for you.:(
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Good news about Cody feeling a little better this morning. I have heard about addison's disease but don't know any about it. Keeping my fingers crossed that today is the day you get some answers.
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ivoss-my vet is not strong supporter of barium swallow b/c if they have to surgically open the digestive track open they don't like to have the barium in the system that could leak out.
They will do it but not a first choice option for them. They would rather do an ultra sound and endoscopy first.I have to agree here… my vets are not fans of the barium either and will do ultrasound and/or endoscopy also....
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Heard back from the vet this morning. Cody is more active since getting fluids etc. stopped vomiting, but still won't eat. All blood work red/white blood count etc came back normal. Urninanalysis showed a little high on proteins but they think that b/c he's dehydrated. Glucose came back normal. They are now taking the x-rays they took last night to the med-vet I took him to on wed. night to compare the x-rays and get a 2nd opinion. They also want to run a test for Addisions's disease. Has anyone heard of that?, have any experiance, or heard of a basenji having it?
Addisions is pretty uncommon for any dog to get….. Cushings would be more likely. However, very possible that there could be tumors on the adrenal glands... but for both usually you find that they drink loads of water (both with Addisions and Cushings), same as you would find with Fanconi....
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I have heard of Addison's, as one of my B's has Cushing's disease which is the opposite of Addison's. Addison's is quite treatable, so you may want to hope that this is what is wrong. Lots of info. on Addison's on the internet. Hang in there!
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ivoss-my vet is not strong supporter of barium swallow b/c if they have to surgically open the digestive track open they don't like to have the barium in the system that could leak out.
I understand and that is my vet's first choice also but sometimes it is the only thing that will show a blockage. The other thing would be is there an ultrasound specialist in the area. My vet will do ultrasound themselves for many things but in difficult cases they will bring in a specialist because often times they will see things that others will miss.
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I understand and that is my vet's first choice also but sometimes it is the only thing that will show a blockage. The other thing would be is there an ultrasound specialist in the area. My vet will do ultrasound themselves for many things but in difficult cases they will bring in a specialist because often times they will see things that others will miss.
My Vets are the same, while they do some ultrasound, usually they schedule a specialist once a week, if something is more of any emerency, then we go to the specialist. Lucky that we have two to choose from that are pretty close. Also, when we were trying to find Kristii's problem a few years ago (very similar to this boys problem), the barum did move through, however with the ultrasound they immediately saw the blockage and we knew surgery was needed asap…. Regardless, sounds like your Vet is on top of trying to get to the bottom of the problem.....
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Update…My vet took her x-rays and drove over to the med-vet place I went on Wed night to compare her x-rays with theirs and to get the radiologist to give a 2nd opinion. Now its confirmed a small blockage in the small intestines, something peach pit size. My vet is doing surgery immeditately to remove it. Mystery solved. I am relieved that they found the blockage, just wish it was sooner. I am a little pissed at the med-vet b/c my vet had reapatly requested their x-rays for comparison and they didn't respond. She had to physically drive over herself and hunt down somebody.
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Good news, I hope this solves all his problems…poor little fella.
I can not believe she(the Vet) had to jump through hoops to get the films..typical.
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Surgery went well, even the vet is unsure what the object was after she got it out. He's currently in recovery, not entirely out of the woods yet. The intestines had not ruptured but maybe was damaged. He will spend at least another night and day in hospital for observation.
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So far so good…I will pray for his swift recovery and for you and your husband to keep you calm..
So is it something he "found" and swallowed? Scary..
