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there are 4 causes of ple

There are four chief causes of protein-losing enteropathy:

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Histoplasmosis (a fungal infection)

Intestinal Lymphosarcoma

Intestinal Lymphangiectasia

so the vet has to rule out all 4 and not jump to just one because if you give prednisone to a dog that has histoplasmosis you are going to have a big problem as it will lower immune system thus causing fungus to take over so before doing steroids that has to be ruled out