What symptoms is your furbaby having? Wait for the results.The bile acid results will NOT tell you which type of shunt your baby has it will only show levels of Bile acid. My dog had some mild symptoms but we had him tested after a year so Icould not get back partial refund or return him. Returning was not an option for me anyway. Most doggy parents are too attached to their pets to just return them.My dog was diagnosed with MVD and it's very treatable with a low protein dogfood.Some will do well just on the low protein diet and some may require the low protein food plus meds that you mix in with the food like Marin and or Denosyl. The surgery for my dog was over $1,300 .The liver was checked and looked very healthy and no shunt was found instead it's another form of liver shunt but its microscopic and shows up in the biopsy taken of the liver.
My dog has not had any other episode or problems since,thank God.
He only had one episode ever and that was scary enough because I thought he was going to die.He was lifeless for a few minutes and blood was taken again at a Emergency Hospital and that's when we were told that his food was too high in protein and basically the toxins had spread in his blood so thats why he passed out....This is when I decided to get the exploratory surgery done.
Find out first what type of shunt if any your pet has and take it from there. If it's the type that can't be fixed through surgery or through diet ,then I'd say you have a very difficult choice to make. I wish your furbaby the very best and please keep us posted when you get the results. There are many people here that have dealt with serious liver shunt problems and they may give you more detailed advice.
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