 Help - Possible Liver Shunt
I hope you don’t mind me posting on this site, my dog isn’t a yorkie but we are suspecting she could have PSS – and I am trying to look for answers, help or any kind of info that I can find to save my new puppy.
I adopted Izzie on November 21st from our local Humane Society. She had been brought in that day along with several other puppies from another shelter. They immediately fixed them and put them up for adoption, I adopted her the night of her surgery. She never seemed to have much energy and three days later I took her for her vet visit and they diagnosed her with Coccidia, we did ten days of Albun and I still didn’t notice any increase in energy. By then her appetite had decreased too, I took her back to the vet and they did another fecal sample which showed nothing, they also did a blood test which among other things it showed elevated WBC. They decided to give her Pancur for worms, the next morning she vomited so I took her back to the vet. They did a Parvo test which came back negative, that evening she crashed and I rushed her to the Vet ER. She was hypoglycemic and her blood sugar level had dropped to around 12. The spent the next 48 hours on Dextrose, Antibiotics, heat support and also had a Oxyglobin transfusion. She slowly became a little better, I took her to my regular vet on Monday morning and they took her off the IV and sent her home with me, she still had her IV port in and they had given me some dextrose to give to her every 4 hours. This seemed to work and the next day I took her back to the vet and they sent her home that evening. Around 5am that morning I awoke to find her very lethargic and having seizures. I called my regular vet and she met me at the office. She gave her more dextrose and slowly she came around, we also did another Parvo test and it was negative. That evening instead of bringing her home I took her to the ER for monitoring, the vet there suggested we do a Ammonia test, which came back negative. They also had some whole blood so they did another transfusion. I have been transporting her back and forth to the vet when I work and she is still on the IV w/ Dextrose. She wasn’t able to fast long enough for the Bile Acid test, but they did a resting one and the results came back at 64.8, which my vet feels was inconclusive. So now she is maintain and seems to be okay as long as she is on the glucose and fed every 3-4 hours. She is currently on antibiotics, a dextrose IV, and steroids. Her appetite is strong and she acts like she is starving every time I feed her. I notice that she kind of collapses when she eats, it only lasts a few seconds or so, and she then goes back to eating. She also seems to use up all her energy when she has a bowel movement. She also eats so rapidly she doesn’t seem to chew and it gets stuck in the roof of her mouth, so I have to take the food away and dig it out of her mouth and let her re-eat that out of my hand and put her food back and do that a few times so she doesn’t get it so compacted that she isn’t getting any food. Thank you if you are still reading!!! Other info:
1. She is eating Wellness Puppy food, I also give her Nutri-Cal a couple of times a day
2. I am giving her Acidophilus to help with her ‘good’ bacteria
3. I have scrambled her an egg a few times and it seems to be a better consistency than the wet food and she doesn’t pack her mouth so full
4. I also boiled liver and have given her a little of that to help build up her iron
My personal vet has been wonderful – she has gone out of her way to make this treatment affordable and able for me to maintain at home. I am desperate and spend my days searching the internet for similar situations, or treatments that might help her.
Thank you for reading!!
Gina |