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Originally Posted by erino77  I just tried a few things on google, would this be it? Megaesophagus is a condition in dogs where peristalsis fails to occur properly and the esophagus is enlarged. Normally, when the dog's esophagus is functioning properly, it acts as a muscle and pushes the food down the esophagus into the stomach. However, when a dog has megaesophagus, the esophagus stays enlarged and does not push the food down to the stomach. Therefore, the food fails to enter the stomach and often stays in the esophagus, and is eventually regurgitated. |
No. That's what I had found after talking to the vet's asst on the phone and before talking to the vet in person. I asked him about this and he corrected me and said that in the xray, we were looking at the windpipe/trachea, which (in the xray) lies in front of and is blocking the view of the esophagus, which lies behind the windpipe and trachea in the xray and that they were two different tubes.