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Originally Posted by coroth  Lexie recently went to the vet for her yearly check up and got a full major lab panel and a CBC work-up. On her blood panel it showed that her liver wasn't doing to good. On a number scale it was a 2 with 4 being liver disease. The vet advised me that nothing was wrong and not to worry about it just yet. I ended up rushing Lexie to the vet on Thursday morning because she threw up bile with little clots of blood in it. The vet rechecked the blood panel and found her liver had gotten worse in the matter of a week. I am going back on Friday to get it looked at again.
Ever since she threw up blood, I noticed that Lexie isn't eating. She hardly drinks and is very lethargic compared to her old crazy self. She will be two in September, so being so young I hold out hope that everything will get better with rest and TLC. I got her to eat a VERY small amount of soft dog food today, which is a GREAT start!! Per the vet, I bought her Natural Balance soft dog food because it doesn't contain copper, which is hard on the liver.
Has anyone else gone through this? What should I expect? Is there something special I can do to get her appetite going?
I've tried boiled beef and rice, hot dogs, string cheese, ANYTHING!! She just won't eat.
The vet, my boyfriend, and I decided that if her labs were worse on Friday we were going to put her down since she seems to be suffering so much. She doesn't eat, play, bark, or any of her usual past times. I can't even get her to go on a walk, she gets to tired.
I'm just worried sick with anticipation for Friday. Keep us in your prayers!! |
you are feeding high protein things which will make her more sick - you need to join the liver shunt groups on yahoogroups.com asap and you need to contact dr jean dodds and do her liver cleansing diet asap at
Animal Blood Bank and Restore Health Cente - you can email her the blood work
hemopet@hotmail.com tell her debbie and dee dee referred you
dwert35@aol.com - time is of the essence on this. Some things to try to feed are watermelon, egg whites, lowfat cottage cheese, cod, tilapia, lowfat stoneyfield yogurt. She needs lowfat diet - the yahoogroup will help you a ton to get her to eat. Some liver support is sam-e and milk thistle which combined is denomarin by vet. Did your vet recommend any of this if not get to an internal medicine specialist as they specialize in internal organs -- ask them if they know of dr centers or dr tobias if they do you are in good hands. Have you ever had bile acids, protein c done on your dog? It could be a shunt and many vets have no clue about liver shunt and a yorkie is 35 times more likely to have a liver shunt - if you feed high protein diet it will build up in system and they will get sick like your dog is so NO BEEF, NO HOT DOGS- What is protein count in food you fed prior? If they feel sick from food they will not eat it as it does not make them feel well is the problem. Does your puppy have seizures, head press on walls, act spaced out after eating, picky eater, vomit - these are all signs of liver shunt
the liver can rejuvenate itself it is a very forgiving organ so your baby can be fine but you need to get to the bottom of it quick
Liver_Shunt_And_MVD_Support@yahoogroups.com