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Old 05-26-2010, 05:49 PM   #4
Ellie May
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What was the bad week on the Alpo? What symptoms?

The thing about vet calling it MVD (and so many of them do...maybe not wrong), is that it can only be diagnosed with biopsy, so that is just an educated guess.

With numbers that low, it could be MVD or something else altogether. But that doesn't mean there isn't something else going on too. Maybe another neuro issue? But it seems that this happened after Alpo, and then after beef, and then after Wellness turkey? If these weird episodes do happen only related to food, then I'd have to suspect it's the liver. In that case, if she does get these types of symptoms from moderate to high protein, then more restrictions will be necessary. Not saying an rx diet... And if it is the liver doing this with a bit of a protein increase, then I would absolutely have her on supplements. I'd want to protect the liver as much as possible. And things like SAMe will not hurt her.

Since the littermate had LS, I can only tell you what I would do. And at the vet least, that would be supplements. Ellie is asymptomatic for the most part and I still supplement.
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