Pancreatitis and nutrition support
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When you say his blood levels doubled - did the vet say if it was pancreatic enzymes or something else? I agree your dog needs to be an inpatient right now. Complete digestive rest means nothing by mouth with IV fluid and nutrition support. Also ask your vet what he's doing for pain management. I can't lie to you - pancreatitis is one difficult beast to fight. I'm praying your baby will make it through this attack.
very concerned my bulldog is 7 years old and im a wreck hes been in and out of the vet hospital getting iv fluids anti vomiting meds and anti biotics but he still will not eat i got him home again today supposibly his liver and pancreas are inflammed and enlarged and they dunt know why so they let me take him home 2 see if we can persuede him 2 eat but he still is not interested in food at all!!
Drank too much for several yrs, normal nutrition. Occasional exercise, have stopped due to symptoms below. I wasn’t feeling well, so I went for checkup, which I hadn’t done in a long time. Following test results, quit drinking (2.5 mos ago).
Tests: liver enzymes high at initial visit (AST/ALT: 105/90), 2.5 mos later it’s 27/50.
My internal medicine doctor hasn’t had much to say (“maybe a little inflammation”) and doesn’t appear interested in symptoms (“probably combination gas and stress”). He says it’s taken longer for ALT to fall than expected, but not alarming. Next step is more LFTs, then a GI (until then, waiting game).
Would cirrhosis be detected on an U/S? How likely is chronic pancreatitis given these symptoms? Wouldn’t that have shown some abnormalities on the pancreatic enzyme tests?
Your vet was absolutely right to put your dog in the hospital, withhold food, and provide supportive care with IV fluids. Sometimes dogs have to have nutrition support provided via IV as well for stubborn long-lasting cases.
You will have to watch diet very closely. Keep fats to an absolute minimum. The pancreas has to secrete more enzymes to break down fats. When the pancreas is infected and swollen, these enzymes can't be released either very well or at all.
I am a 60 year old female who was diagnosed in the late 80s with acute pancreatitis and still have sporadic trouble today in 2014. A few weeks ago I was diagnosed with hcv and was wondering what effects I would have with the two diseases together, for instance if given treatment for my hep-c will it make my pancreas worse or will I even be able to do the hcv treatment at all?
Ask your doctor to do a blood test for amylase & lipase levels.
Hi Chan & Karla,
In reply to your two posts, yes, we did take her off the Iams when we switched over to the I.D. Hill's wet and dry foods. And the vet thinks the prednisone is what gave her pancreatitis, given long-term for her allergies. So, we also took her off that for good. I did ask initially about pain relief, and so the vet has this in mind for us, I recall he gave tramadol for another dog we had.
It sounds like you are looking at the nutrition reports, is that correct? Those are goals for the day that are based on information provided by the US Food and Nutrition. Those are not customized for each person, but are general recommendations. To make sure that you are getting the nutrition that you should, you may want to consult your doctor on what they recommend as well.
Then, I kept having elevated amylase and lipase levels, which required hospitalization for pain meds, fluids, and iv nutrition many times. In my case, when my lipase and amylase levels started to return to normal, I wasn't better like the drs said I should be...I still had really bad pain and if I would try eating or drinking too soon it would flare things up all over again. I couldn't have any fancy tests done because I had gastric bypass.
Hi Tony! I've been voraciously reading your group's postings/answers. My dog was perfectly fine with SLIGHT high BUN (35-38). I put her on the NF diet in an effort to keep the kidney disease at bay, and suddenly her pancreatitis went crazy! She got very ill and didn't want to eat. I tried to put her back on her old food to get her back to normal, but it was too late. She's been hospitalized for four days. Her BUN/Creat "stabilized" at 116/6.7.
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Everything else if fine in the panel and in my Urinanalysis. I am wondering if I can get any advice on this. I had acute Pancreatitis and I have elevated Triglycerides.
Trouble was I had a really bad Nicorette habit. Low and behold I have chronic pancreatitis and if I chew the gum--the pancreatic pain skyrockets. I would say "YES" Nicorette either causes, triggers, or aggrevates pancreatitis.
They are really still not positive what, exactly, causes pancreatitis but dogs who are overweight and dogs who have a lot of human table food in their diets are the most prone because of the high fat content in these foods. Our food is not geared toward the way a dog's digestive system works, so it can be the most expensive, well cooked meal in the world, it's still not OK for a dog to eat in any quantity or for any length of time.
My dog had acute pancreatitis over the weekend and I took him to an emergency vet on Sunday and to his vet on Mon. They both kept him overnight, IV, blood work, meds, and his vet did a rectal x-ray and abdominal x-ray with barium to look for obstruction. He found dirt/sand. My dog ate cat poop covered in dirt. He is at home now doing fine and I have him on a bland diet of canned white chicken and brown rice only. However, his lower abd/belly is a little distended and hard.
t prone to exaggeration before you developed symptoms, why would your personality suddenly change? Sphincter of Oddi and Pancreatitis attacks can cause extreme pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, tachycardia (heart rate increase), sweating, blood pressure increase, etc., etc. These things can also cause 24/7 pain. I just answered a question about this, so I'm going to be a loser and cut and paste.
I had to put my 11 year old Llhasa apso to sleep yesterday because he was diagnosed with pancreatitis and was in so much pain that they could not guarantee that he would survive even with treatment. It came on suddenly...he was fine Saturday but began throwing up in the middle of the night and continued...he couldn't even hold down water and was very weak. I took him into the veterinary hospital on Sunday and he was too weak to come home.
im now being directed to take a gastric emptying study which i already have had done a year ago and those results were normal..my question is...is here a link between pancreatitis and bile reflux? and if so, would it not be indicative of an obstruction (due to the minor dilation) of my pancreatic duct....is there any remedies or speculation around these test results?
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