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Originally Posted by dee1987  Can anyone please tell me what a liver schunt is. My baby has been extremely sleepy for the past three days but eating, drinking, and going to the toilet as normal. today he was sick so i went to the vet. we did blood tests and the vet has just called me saying that Buddy might have a schunt. he wants to do more tests on monday to find out as he is not sure if this is it but knows its somethin to do with his liver. Please help me im inconsolable at the moment and so scared. Buddy is 4 months old and although iv only had him for two months he is my world. What can i do to make him better all he is doing is sleeping. Is he going to die? has anyone experienced this before?   |
Hi..I'm so sorry to hear your baby is sick. Mine has been sick as well and came out of the vet hospital today. her blood glucose kept dropping last week. I only got her last week Mon at 8wks. She kept having sugar lows and I had to give her honey water and let her lick it off a teaspoon.
The vet explained she may have a portal caval shunt (sp)which means her major vessels bypass the liver and therefore she doesn't process her glucose properly..something like that. if this is the case its serious..I hate to tell you that, but I have been told the same. Fortunately she came home today full of bounce and has eaten 4 meals since and drank water. Its so important to keep there blood sugar up.. Is this the first time you are seeing this and he is 4mths?
I would have thought you would have seen it before now if it was a shunt?..My heart goes out to you and so hope liver shunt is not the case.
I will still have to watch my baby..she is not out of the woods yet.
Love Ave