Any number of things can cause a slightly elevated bile acid level. What course of action did your vet recommend? Just curious, did your vet do a complete blood profile or just the bile acid? If the bile acid was only slightly elevated, I would watch him closely and repeat the blood work in a few weeks. If your pup has a liver shunt serious enough to cause seizures she will probably have some other odd behaviors and characteristics such as:
being extra small
not eating well
walking in circles
butting her head against a wall
acting confused
pain
The odd behaviors usually occur about 2 hours after eating. The primary function of the liver is to remove the by-products produced by digesting protein -- ammonia. When the liver doesn't function properly the body is actually poisened by the ammonia overload the seizures, odd behavior and pain are a result of the ammonia poisioning.
Good luck. Trust your vet. If you don't have one you trust completely, then change vets. |