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Originally Posted by chickensmith  Our husky was diagnosed with an "abnormally small liver" when she was 3. She has never had any issues related to it....but I agree that it more than likely depends on the size of the dog and the abnormality in size of the liver. I hope you are able to see a specialist and get some relief for your baby!
On a side note.....is milk thistle good for humans to cleanse the liver? |
Absolutely! THAT is how I was first introduced to the concept of aiding in repairing/maintaining failing livers in drug addicts/alcoholics.....my cousin....I dearly loved that precious soul....was so mixed up in drugs and drinking...he was caught so many times running dope from Mexico as well as growing pot in his mothers back yard, the last time he was caight, the judge told him he could join the Army or go to jail for 4-6 years. He elected the Army....what do you think happened???? The sent him to boot camp then shipped him off to GERMANY!!!! GERMANY, the drug capital of the world!!!! Well, he thought he had died and gone to heaven!!! He met his future wife in the service there in Germany....her name was "Flash" so you KNOW what kind of a comedy these two lived.....jump forward 35 years...they were back in the USA....she called me and told me he had been diagnosed with end stage liver disease and the docs gave him MAYBE 6-8 months possibly a year, to live. I was absolutely inconsolable and turned over every stone I could find, researching what he had and what we could do about it....one of my docs told me about milk thistle that was used in Germany on all the drug addicts and it extended their lives for years! I researched it, contacted my cousin, sent his wife all the articles I found on it....didnt want him to know I knew about his grave condition....she presented it to him like SHE had stumbled on all that information.....he started taking milk thistle and he lived an additional 5 years! His docs at the VA were stunned and amazed and I THINK they wrote a paper on him.....
Then my dearest friend had 5 little Yorkies that all started suffering from liver failure caused by that very first recall on tainted chicken strips from China way back in 2000. She was doing everything she could possibly do to save/prolong the life of her precious little babies...from lactolose enemas and a barrage of other medicines, some established for treatment of liver failure, some experimental....then we put her babies on milk thistle for dogs...got it out of Canada....it prolonged those babies lives for additional months-to-a year or so....she eventually lost those babies, but that stuff works wonders! I started giving it to all my dogs prophylactically and have done so since 2000. I highly recommend it....for humans as well as our dogs!!! (Remember, the two formulas are in a different base carrier....dont give the human milk thistle to dogs, and visa versa.)