Quote:
Originally Posted by simonandhallie  Hi everyone! I just wanted to let you know that Hallie is sick. She has been drinking a ton of water and having accidents so I took her to our regular vet (really thinking she just had a UTI) who did bloodwork and urine samples and found her kidney, pancreas and urine protein levels elevated so he sent us to an internal medicine specialist.
They did an ultrasound, bloodwork and a needle bladder test. The ultrasound showed fluid build up in and around her kidneys and irreversible kidney damage. She also has a tumor on her liver. The glomerular kidney disease can be caused by infections, auto-immune disease and/or cancer so we are waiting for the blood tests to come back. If they come back with no signs they will do a kidney & liver biopsy. She also has very high blood pressure and will be on medication for that.
She is now on prescription food and medicine to help calm her tummy (she wasn't eating and lost weight).
Does anyone have experience with this? I'm trying to stay optimistic but it's hard. Hallie has always been so healthy that I really never expected anything like this. |
wow that is alot going on
I would say fish diet inorder as low in sodium low in fat and easily digestible but the purines not too sure on that -- I would join a pancreatitis group, k9kidney and liver shunt group to learn about all 3 on the yahoogroups.com. To supplement liver you would use denomarin which is sam-e and milk thistle - low fat for pancreas and low sodium to help the kidneys. I would juice zucchini daily to cleans liver and juice celery with the zucchini to cleans the urinary tract. This is what i would do if were mine. My friend has a yorkie that is a liver shunt surgery survivor with only 25% use of kidney and doing great for many years and she has a nutritionist you could consult or susan davis many use here as well - diet is going to be very important and spring bottled water I would change 4 times a day to entice more drinking as mine drink it more when it is fresh