need advice on my tea cup yorkie!!!! We, recently acquired a small tea cup yorkie, last Thursday a friends dog was over at our house for a visit, the visiting dog got sick in our kitchen, I immediately cleaned it up with bleach water and paper towels. Then on Sunday, we find out that the same dog, was very sick with Parvo and his owner didn't think he would make it through the night. ( she did not make, passed away sometime early Monday ). My lil Lance was suppose to go later Monday for his final set of shots, when we arrived at the vets office, I did inform them that they was a possibility of him being exposed to Parvo, and they decided with that being said, to go ahead and give him his shots as a precaution. he was fine all day Monday afternoon, was eating playing and being his normal lil self. I wake up Tuesday to him throwing a lil bit of white foamy slimy stuff, call the vet and she has me bring him in. we do a Parvo test, and it has a ver faint blue dot, according to the vet the stronger the blue dot, the more prominent the Parvo is. now that being said, she said she did not think he had Parvo but was just a reaction to the booster he received the day before, but went ahead and gave him some meds for vomitting and antibiotics. I get him back home (still Tuesday) I give him the antibotic as she said and he sleep almost all day with out hardly moving, Coe Tuesday night, he finally starts eating a lil bit and drinking and seems to be improving greatly. wake up Wednesday morning to him acting confused and posted, he was a lil unstable while walking and fell off the bed and the couch while trying to get to his spots.i then again call the vet asking about his behavior and if this was completely normal after giving him the antivomitting meds and antibiotic. she told me that we needed to bring him back in. upon arriving, they have decided to do blood work and a abc panel. everything came back in the normal range with the exception of his protien which was low ( probably from not eating) and his sugar was 222,(probably from me giving him kyero syrup a hour before arriving). and they sent us home telling me that he is probably just stressed and tried. the rest of the day he doesn't do much but sleep, didn't eat much nor did he drink much so at 3 am before we went to bed I gave him some honey to insure that his sugar didn't get too low. wake up today (Thursday) to him vomiting clear kind of foam stuff and had had an accident on the bed, consenting of a lil soft firm poop trying to liquid at the end. call the vet and go back out there, where they re ran all the same blood test as Wednesday and re did a Parvo snap that they did on Tuesday. all blood work showed normal with exception of his protein ( still low and around the same level as Wednesday) and his sugar was only 22 (the day before it was 222). the Parvo test was a much darker blue than on Tuesday, so they decided to hopsitalize him. ( this was at 9am) we leave my baby there and at 1 pm I call to check on him. the lady tells me that he is doing fine and he is back there barking. she puts me on hold and comes to tell me that he is alert and sitting in his kennel barking at everyone. I go pick him cup at 5:30pm to transport him over to the emerncgy after hour clinic, he was excited at first to see me, but that was very short lasted because just as soon as we turned around to walk out the door he was back to being lifeless and slept the way to the next clinic. while there, we discuss everything that the original vet told me and I leave. at 8:09 the emercngy clinic calls telling me that his sugar is extremely low and that they had to give him a shot of sugar and added a bag of sugar to his iv. the whole problem I have now after doing much research is, with all his blood work being normal( white count and red count) does he really have Parvo? or are we really dealing with hypoglycemia? everything that I have read and everyone I have talked too says that if it was really Parvo, the white count (even given the fact he has been on antibiotics since Tuesday morning) would not being showing normal. Could we be treating him for something he really never had and neglecting the fact that we have stressed his lil 2.5 lb body to the point that he is now fighting a sugar issue? any help or thought on this would be greatly appreciated |