Pancreatitis causes dogs
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The cause can sometimes be unknown, but very often follows after eating any fatty food (Turkey skin for instance, or even chicken fat etc) Even a few table scraps CAN cause Pancreatitis attacks in susceptible dogs. And very often, when they have had one -unless they stay on a strict diet, they can get another attack in the future.
Has your vet excluded this as a possibility?
The treatment sounds harsh but is the best way to manage an attack.
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.
If pancreatitis is part of your dogs issue, probiotics and full spectrum digestive enzymes would be very helpful to take the burden off your dogs pancreas and allow it to heal.
We have no way to diagnose your girl on a public forum.....She obviously is in severe pain! Dogs are good at covering pain until they no longer can stand it! Everything you describe is PAIN!
This could be anything from a Spinal injury to Pancreatitis (Which can be fatal if left untreated).....
Is she drinking water? You need to keep fluids in her until you can see her Vet....Dehydration alone, can cause an array of problems....Small dogs are more at risk!
I am not trying to make you feel bad, but if you feed her people food while she has pancreatitis you COULD kill her! Dogs are not made to digest human food as we prepare it for ourselves, and the fats in the foods that we eat are horribly bad for even healthy dogs, but they are a death sentence for a dog with pancreatitis. Please contact your vet as soon as you can and tell them what happened and let them take it from there.
The most obvious causes for your dog's symptoms include:Giardia, Pancreatitis, HGE, IBD, Parvo, and stress colitis. Another possibility is a GI foreign body (The GI foreign body would require a barium study and possibly surgical removal of the object). There are snap tests for giardia, pancreatitis and parvovirus that can be performed in-house immediately.
These diseases, except a GI foreign body require symptomatic therapy at the vet's office.
I have a 3.8 lb chi that is fortunately alive today because I would not take no from my vet..After $800.00 worth of test, I was able to go on line myslef and figure out what was wrong with her...Now, the rumbling in you baby's tummy could be from any number of things... Hunger, pain, gas just to name a few...If she has had a nuber of bouts with the pancreatitis,you may want to ask your vet to check her for E.P.I...
My boxer was hospitalized today with severe pancreatitis. Her pancreatic enzymes are off the charts, it is so severe. This was an acute case and she hasn't had it before. She absolutely NEVER eats anything othet than her commercial dog kibble, especially due to multiple food allergies. She's my service dog (in training) so she is always with us, so we know she didn't eat something she shouldn't have. The vet has no idea what could make her so critically ill.
I doubt the rawhides have anything to do with the UTI, but they should be avoided in a dog with chronic pancreatitis due to the fat content. Definitely check with your vet on that question. Dogs, like humans, need a certain amount of fat for good nutrition, but sudden spikes in fat can bring on an acute case of pancreatitis - particularly in a dog who has already had it. Chronic pancreatitis is darned difficult to manage in humans as well as dogs.
m really sorry to hear your dog has pancreas trouble. There can be various underlying causes for pancreatitis and since your dog seemed to respond to antibiotics, it's possible his pancreas is infected. That may be due to a structural problem either within the pancreas itself or further down in the pancreatic duct. If imaging studies have not been done, it's time to take a look to see if there is a tumor or psuedo-cyst (pocket of infection) present.
anything salted/anything cooked with or containing onions/grapes/raisins(ie fruit cake,pies etc)/chocolate/ even LIVER can affect some dogs badly!....the list is quite long.
Also I wouldn't want to feed MY dog on...lumps of fat/leftover pizza crust/pastry/mass-produced white bread/sugary snacks/salty snacks/all the kind of junk we humans think we can get away with eating!
But sometimes, if I have something left over which I know is ok for dogs, I will add it to my dog's next meal.
Some dogs will lick popsicles. Some dogs will drink pedialyte or gatorade. Most dogs will drink canned, diluted, beef or chicken broth or a weak broth made from bouillon cubes. You need to be careful about using these types of broth, because you don't want to give her too much salt and inadvertantly make the dehydration worse. Maybe just try a splash of the broth in her water bowl. Use the least amount that is enough to tempt her to drink.
This may just be a passing stomach upset, it may be a serious infection, or it may be pancreatitis, or something else.....it's impossible for me to tell you.
Probably the best thing to do is to withhold food altogether for 24 hours NO FOOD AT ALL.
Just water.
I had a healthy dog until he went under for dental cleaning and tooth extractions. The tooth extractions went well, but two days later he developed pancreatitis. We got it under control with medication and low fat canned food. However, when we stopped the meds we noticed he wasn't turning his neck and his neck started throbbing. We took him in again to the vet. The vet x-rayed his neck and said he has a slipped disk.
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.
For some reason, Cushingoid dogs are more prone to pancreatitis than normal dogs, so it will be important for you to keep your dog's diet very low in fat. You also want to keep the food low in fiber and high in potassium. Cushings medication makes it difficult for dogs to digest high fiber foods properly, and high potassium diets just give them more "oomph" when dealing with taking the necessary medications.
What medications does you vet have your dog on?
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.
The classic case in dogs is a large, sudden intake of fat. My vet always gets pancreatitis cases in following holidays when the dogs get too many extra fatty "treats" from well-meaning family members or guests. Summer months are always the worst when people are cooking things like brisket and ribs.
Pain control, digestive rest and hydration are very important, and usually antibiotics are needed as well.
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