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Liver Problems in Yorkies I have been reading so much lately about Yorkies and liver problems. It seems like a good deal of them have MVD. How many Yorkies here have liver problems? Sorry if the terminology is not quite right. I am definately not a vet.;) |
Lily has MVD which is also referred to as HMD. |
Miko has MVD... |
Buddy has no liver problems. Thank heavens. |
Drawlins, I thought they were the same.:) OOPS...oh well. It really bothers me when I type something in wrong and can't correct it...perfectionist issues.:rolleyes: |
Ellie May, MVD and HMD are the same thing :) |
Neither of mine do (knock on wood) and both have been tested. |
My :angel2dl: Chloe had hepatic encephalopathy and portal vascular anomaly. I don't know what it means..:( :confuse2: |
Did your Chloe cross the rainbow bridge?? I'm so sorry to hear this... It sounds like your Chloe had liver shunt/mvd...How old was she? |
Izzy does not and she's also been tested. What are the signs of liver shunt, etc??? |
There are so many different symptoms...Some dogs have only the symptom of UTIs or crystals/stones in urine, others head press about 30 min after meals, some have seizures, others become lethargic, drool, etc...I can't tell you how many times a vet has misdiagnosed a dog by saying that it's hypoglycemic when in fact the dog has a liver problems. Many of the symptoms are similar....BUT a yorkie with a liver problem will not always respond immediately to honey, karo syrup. |
Another really important symptom to mention is lack of appetite and extremely picky...The reason for this is that when liver compromised dogs(before the owners know of the problem) eat regular commercial dog food (which most of it has lamb, beef, venison, or some other kind of red meat), red meat produces toxins in the body that are supposed to be filtered through the liver, but because the liver isn't working properly, the toxins build-up and make them feel sick...Sooooo they don't enjoy eating and will only eat as a necessity to survive. But if they're eating food that is not harmful to them, then they're much better about eating. |
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Oh my chloe was fine, everything was okay happy, playful, eating, everything then one sunday morning my daughter noticed that her teeth was chattering. I got nervous and though she was choking so I looked in her mouth and nothing so I took her to the emergency vet and suspect shunt. I was like what??!!?? :eek: what is that??!! then after 2 days they had to put her down. :( |
I was just reading a thread on here. I think her name is yorkiesmiles, She just had a 1 hour consult with this Ariel. She put her web on there and there is some stuff on that web about Liver problems. You might want to check it outl. |
Yorkieluv thank you very much for explaining liver shunt symptoms. I had a male Yorkie in the 80s who was only 8 years old who died of servere kidney issues (stone blockage) but the vet never mentioned liver shunt so I wonder now after all these years if that's what my little JT had. It was very sad - they even took some of his stone that he passed and sent them to the OSU vet school since this vet never saw a stone like he passed. I forgot after all these years what they called it but it was very rare - the stones instead of being smooth which is painful enough they were spiny which I can only imagine the pain when passing. Thanks again. |
Oh gosh, I'm so sorry to hear that...It may very well be what happened to your precious baby...That's basically part of the way that we found out Miko had liver problems...He had stones blocking the urine from being able to come out. The vet did bladder stone surgery to remove the stones and found out that the big ones were ammonium urate which is usually only found in either Dalmations or dogs with portosystemic shunting...They also saw crystals that were jagged... |
That's exactly what happened to JT - he went through stone issues 2x and then the last time there was so much blood passed that it just wasn't right and he could hardly move, eat, etc. we knew what we had to do but it was so rough. Because of that I haven't had a Yorkie in my life until just this past May with Izzy. It was harder on me to get over it, but all is good now! I still get sad when I think of him but Izzy takes that all away. Again - back in the early 80s I don't think they used that term liver shunt like they do now. |
Back then, vets did not check for this as often as they do now and owners were told to put them down because the dog was "suffering"...It's very sad, and even to this day some vets are still recommending that pups who have it be put to sleep instead of doing the research that it takes to find out what the dog has and do what it takes to fix it. I'm so sorry that your furbaby had to cross over the bridge :( I know how hard it is to make that decision...In 2004 right before my wedding, my furbaby that I had at the time had to be put down because he had congenital disease that was paralyzing his body and causing him extreme pain. I was a basket case...they told me that in his particular case, surgery wasn't an option :( |
Pepper had his bloodwork done before neuter and his kidneys and liver are working perfectly fine. |
Routine bloodwork will not show a problem in the liver until the liver is 70% damaged, that's why it's so important to request a bile acid test which is especially sensitive to liver function |
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None at all, thank goodness! |
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