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Originally Posted by erickajm  Thank you all! After a sleepless night all is well. This internet can be a godsend or the opposite. Once Zoe started vomiting I start researching. In the back of my mind are all the possibilities but once you start refreshing your memory ~ I had her diagnosed with three different things.
Zoe will be seen by the ER vet today just to make sure last night doesn't happen again tonight. Thanks again ~ there were a couple breeders I was waiting to hear from and Mardelin, you always come through! Your post usually snaps me out of my "running around with my head cut off and not thinking" mode. Not that the other posts didn't help but Mardelin just has a way of waking you up in a no nonsense way. Thanks again! |
FYI - After a routine whelp on one of my girls - all was going well. A POP shot had been given and things were progressing well. A week after the whelp, I walked into to the whelping area for an hourly routine check.
My girl was down, rushed her to ER. Blood test were run and diagnosed with eclampsia, since there was no sign of infection. Calcium was administered via IV. The next morning, she projectedly vomited; smelly. Ran her to a Repro Vet. Blood tests, sonograms were run. Nothing found, except dehydration and calcium levels were a bit low and slight anemia. They put her on IV fluids, with mega doses of antibiotics. She was kept, by afternoon she was emitting such a smelly discharge, an infection was going on. Cause was not determined, but she was stabilized. I requested a spay, they ran a coagulation test and found her levels were off, a spay couldn't be performed, she'd have bled out. She was kept on mega doses of antibiotics for over a month. When all was stabilized, a spay was performed. Her horn had been ripped during the whelp. Something that couldn't have been seen with a sonogram. Her spay was a lengthy procedure as cauterization had to be performed every step of the way. So, again a routine whelp does not always guarantee all is well. It's always better to err on the side of caution.
Good Luck and I pray that all is well with your girl.