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Originally Posted by avemike  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 |
First, I am not a professional not a vet, but I have read here that 8 weeks is really to soon to have taken a baby from its mommy maybe she is simply lacking in nutrition that she would have needed from mommy, also if your baby actually does have a shunt in the portal caval vein she will need surgery to fix it the portal vein processes the proteins and if hers is blocked then the toxins are not being cleaned from her system, it isnt the glucose. Has your vet gone over this information with you and did they do testing to confirm a shunt? Did they talk with you about diet? these are all very important things to discuss with your vet if she does have the shunt. Please keep us informed.