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03-06-2005, 01:01 PM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: May 2004
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| does your yorkie shake? i notice that my 2 yr old female bella sometimes shakes. she could be fine, eating, playing or whatever and then out of nowhere, will usually jump on on couch trembling slightly, usually staring at me as if to say " why do i shake?" i usually just start holding her or try to get her to play and she's fine. it gets me nervous since at 12 weeks old she had a shaking, drunken, disoriented episode which the vet said could be a shunt. i had her bile acids checked and it came back evident of a liver problem, possibly a shunt. since then she has been on a strict high carb, low protein liver disease diet w/ NO TREATS. i'm starting to wonder if her diet could have been the cause of the outcome of the bile acid test. at the time, she was very small, under 2lb, and we would try to get her to eat anything, lots of times ground meat(protein) and alot of treats. we didn't know about liver problems in yorkies. hopefully the change in diet will be all she needs, but at times she still trembles. |
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03-06-2005, 07:48 PM | #2 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: California
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| from what i understand bile acid tests are the most reliable way to diagnose liver shunt.... i dont know if diet can effect her to the point of giveing her a false test |
03-07-2005, 10:23 AM | #3 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: UK
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| As far as I know diet won't have an impact on the bile acid test. The test shows whether the liver functions properly, whether it washes away toxins from from the food through the liver. My Bubbles would shake all the time before we put him on his diet and Lactulose. If he just had one treat he would shake again. I can't stress how important the new diet will be to your baby. Even though it will be hard not to feed treats just remember it's for her health. |
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