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Originally Posted by dottiesyrky  The reason I mentioned this in an earlier post is because I saw this on a search. May be totally useless info and apologies if it is irrelevant.
'Liver Problems and Other Internal Conditions
Itching from liver problems, according to the Mayo Clinic, is all over the body, increases at night, and is not relieved by moisturising, antihistamines or home remedies for dry skin. This type of whole-body itching could also indicate other internal conditions like coeliac disease, iron deficiency anaemia, thyroid problems and certain cancers, including leukaemia and lymphoma.
Why Liver Problems Make Skin Itch
The uncontrollable itching that comes with liver problems happens when the liver can no longer perform its job of filtering toxins out of the body, according to the University of Illinois Medical Center. As the bile and wastes build up in your blood, they make the skin incredibly itchy, especially at night.' |
Thank you! I did know from working in medicine so long that liver disease can cause whole-body or isolated itching and that was always a consideration but Tibbe's only seems to be associated with certain foods - so far. He's always occas. rubbed his face when I'm getting up to take him outside or he goes to the restroom with me - I say always - he does it sporadically and not every day but only at those times when he does do it. But since his food change, both with the RC GI and the Hill's I/D Low Fat, he started rubbing his body/face/head and scratching within a short certain period of time after eating them and rubs/scratches nonstop on everything he can find. Is extremely restless and moves from one place to another, whines - asking me to help him stop this feeling. And after those two foods, the rubbing/scratching is just continual and unremitting and obviously terribly stressful and exhausting. If his itching didn't always seem tied to food, I would think it was from just the liver itself but it very well still could be the foods he can't tolerate irritate his liver in some extra way and/or he's just allergic to something in them. And the vet did mention his itching could be from just his liver but it didn't seem to be so far.
Dottiesyrky, I thank you so much for posting this great information because it is something that everyone should know about the liver and itching! It is posts like yours that keep YorkieTalk the mine of information that it is and teaching me and others every single day. On Tibbe's other sick thread about this, I've picked up so much information I didn't know about shunts and diagnostics and treatment - it would have taken me days to have found all of that online just searching! Days.
So many threads about sick dogs on YT are loaded with this kind of information from all of ya'll. I purposefully don't go into the Sick/Injured section much because I can't be much help there and it is so upsetting. But this information post by dottiesyrky and so many of you on those Sick/Injured threads is making me rethink that. I need to read more of this kind of information just for general knowledge as a dog owner and on those threads, I see a lot of this kind of post. I need to know way, way more so I'm going to start reading more in that section.
If it weren't for YT, I highly doubt Tibbe's advance toward getting a diagnosis would be anywhere near as close as it is tonight. Bless the day I joined YT!