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It also helps to know your location and what you're trying to get rid of.
We get ants out here, and it's simple enough to whip up boric acid and sugar water, put it on a cotton ball and put that into a baby food jar. Punch a hole in the lid, and drop it near an ant mound. It takes a couple of days, but it's very effective and perfectly safe. If that doesn't work, a bit of commercial ant bait containing fipronil (the same ingredient in Frontline, which is generally considered safe for direct application to the skin of greyhounds) put on an ant mound with two bricks put on top (not to cover the opening of the mound- one brick next to the opening, the other at an angle on top to leave it open to the air) will do them in even more swiftly.
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Still on the azathioprine?
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Interesting re the chloramphenicol -- didn't know that. All my (for the dogs) topical steroids have had the "gloves" warning. Cortaid, of course, doesn't .......
Yuppers. Even its application in eye drops for humans is debated!
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I also forgot to note- if the Liquichlor is this stuff:
http://www.islandpharmacy.com/site/1420401/PAGE/769117
the first component- chloramphenicol- is a very odd antibiotic. It's GREAT stuff as nobody uses it (on people), so there's relatively little resistance to the drug. Unfortunately, every 1 in 100,000 cases or so, the patient gets a weird type of aplastic anemia- which is invariably fatal without a bone marrow transplant. Still plenty safe for animal use, just not acceptable for humans so long as other drugs are available.
Hence the need for gloves. It's very, very unlikely anyone would get enough in their system by applying it to their dog, but- don't take chances with chloramphenicol.
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I seem to recall a post from Dr. Stack, one of the great greyhound vets, on the greyhound list stating in order to induce vomiting, the whole "half the bottle down the throat" thing isn't necessary- just a spoonful around the gums. Doesn't even need to be swallowed.
My own experiences don't jibe with that, but there's a reason she's a DVM and I'm just a geologist. But peroxide around the gums might do it for some dogs.
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he wont be in till monday. they dont do emergency calls. I will stop using it and call monday.
Open the bottle. Smell it. Does it smell like REALLY STRONG bleach? If so, I'm right.
If it doesn't reek of chlorine, then I'm wrong. Please don't discontinue its use based on what some dimbulb (me) on the Internet has to say. The name may apply to more than one compound, unfortunately.
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I lucked out. Vet was in for 2 hours today. He looked at Lexie's spot on her butt. He said it looks like she bruised it somehow. He said neosporin would work but liquiclor is better. He gave me some of that to use. Anyone ever use it? It sounds kind of strong cause he said i have to wear gloves to put it on so it doesn;t get in my bloodstream. Any info on it would be helpful. I tried to look it up on line but it didn't say to much about what ingrediants are in it. He said if she gets anymore or on other places of her body, he would do a blood platelet count just to make sure she has no immune thing going on.
If my information is correct, it is 12.5% sodium hypochlorite:
http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Produc...;DIST_NR=000550
Which makes it comparable to the ultra-heavy-duty bleach, i.e.: Clorox, which is 5.25% or 6% sodium hypochlorite.
If it's fungal or bacterial or... well, heck, pretty much anything that's not *inside* the cell, that'll fry it.
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Posting for someone else:
This is the same location where last week he had a white bump that started like a blister, then looked like a big pimple, then just disappeared. There was no evidence that it burst, no lesion left behind. I was too focused on GI stuff to give it any more thought. But now this. In the same place. Weird.
"this is the best one from this a.m. I have 2 or 3 more that are closer but less clear. The flash washes things out.
Do you notice a small white bleb at the upper right of the congregation of spots? It looks similar to a white spot that came up last week and seemed to go away on its own. I saw no evidence that it had popped, but I assumed it did. By the time the vet saw it, there was absolutely nothing to see. And now this.
Think I'll just have to get it looked at Monday. (My vet won't be in until Wed., so I'll have to to with someone else.) Thanks for looking. Any thoughts?"
Any thoughts?
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How do you test for PRA?
The eye color is characteristic. It will appear in both eyes. Changes to one eye (or both eyes, but the pattern will usually be different) may be pannus. Or cataracts.
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No ideas about homeopathy, but a ketogenic diet is known to work well in children.
A reasonably analogous diet in the canine would be a raw fed or homecooked diet with no added carbohydrates.
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Note also that, if feasible, skipping the dietary carbs and going straight to raw or home-cooked food- almost entirely protein and fat- is a viable method for management of diabetes in mammals.
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Updated. Bump.
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Problems with gluten are frequently confused with problems with starch, as the two are intertwined. People cut out the wheat, and feel markedly better- and claim it was the gluten that was doing them in. What if it's the starch component?
Bear this in mind if other starchy foods give the same problem: corn, rice, etc. For some reason, wheat starch seems particularly noxious. Corn a bit less so, and rice markedly less- some types of rice to the point where they are safe. I haven't been able to pin down a precise biochemical reason to explain the differences in rices, although I suspect it has something to do with the ratio between amylase and amylopectin.
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The literature still frowns on feeding germ-laden stuff to pets- none of which explains why reports of dog food giving people salmonella poisoning from just handling the stuff doesn't seem to phase them. Salmonella in bagged kibble is a pervasive problem, yet somehow it's golden while raw food tempts death.
And I don't deny there are people out there who break rules as concerns raw feeding that end up with sick dogs that give vets reason for pause when asked, "So- y'all dig it when I flip Fluffy a turkey neck once a week?" They remember some poor dog that ended up crashing and dying with salmonellosis, and of course they're going to say, "Don't do that."
My own vet is anti-raw food, but worries more about it from a nutrient standpoint. When I described how I put stuff we feed into an Excel spreadsheet with USDA values for the different components and compared with the NRC's recommendations for feeds, she admitted most people don't take that much care. Another vet I have didn't worry about the canine bacteriology- she was more concerned about the "raw meat in the kitchen" standpoint for the humans. I then informed her both The Lisa and I worked in research handling genetically modified bacteria for a living; if it grows, it dies. Us getting sick from raw meat didn't measure up.
But it's tough to argue with the results. Better for the teeth, too.
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I picked up a diet book for IBD (really good book) and one ingredient that they used occasionally (only if there was not a flare-up at the time) was beans. It's both a protein and a carbohydrate so that could put on some weight.
You mentioned that imuran is being started on Monday, excuse my ignorance in this as I am not familiar with this product but, what is it supposed to do?
Some types of beans may be well-tolerated in humans with IBD on starch-restriction, provided they are soaked first and well-cooked.
Imuran (azathioprine) is an immunosuppressant used for organ transplants, as well as treating some autoimmune disorders. Its mode of action implies that there is an underlying bacterial cause to many of the disorders it is used to treat, such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, and multiple sclerosis.
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How is the fish that he is eating prepared? I know it's lightly poached, but- whole, cut-up, or...? Is there any way to either prepare the fish with another protein/fat source, or to literally stuff the fish with something else?
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The good news is that greyhounds have hearts that are about 30% larger than they "should" be (for a non-sighthound breed of the equivalent weight). It is nothing to watch their entire bodies quiver as the valves snap shut in their oversized hearts.
As for the stiffness- there can be other causes, or it may simply be the long legs. Don't suppose you can post a video to YouTube, can you?
Lastly, I don't know about dogs, but it works for humans: pitting edema can be tested by digging a thumbnail into the legs. If the dent remains longer than it should, that indicates right heart failure. Also see the Merck Veterinary Manual's webpage on cardiomyopathy:
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.js...=cardiomyopathy
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Wait, what? Huh? Injectable rectal Valium? Do you mean suppositories, or injectable?
If the former, it may remain available as generic- at the very least, through compounding pharmacies.
Valium used to be the most-prescribed drug in the United States (which says a lot about society, I suppose, as most of that didn't revolve around seizures). I remember distinctly one call with a patient in status epilepticus- he had to be moved from the second floor of his home down a stairwell that was clearly inadequate for doing so- where he didn't stop until he was loaded with diazepam at the hospital.
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I'd opine that going the pad-and-protect route (along with allowing roam of the house if she's kenneled- busting that tail on the bars will do it) might preclude the need for amputation. The do-it-yourself kit is certainly not advised.
We had a foster with a horrible case of happy tail, and his healed up remarkably well. Much of the hair grew back in.
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There are piles of benzodiazepine drugs, of which Valium (diazepam) used to be the most common. I know for a while they were tossing around intranasal (up the nose) lorazepam for use in canines- easier than an injection, and very fast-acting.
So- if there are absolutely no other injectable alternatives, maybe there's that.
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Wrap the exterior of the muzzle in duct tape. Just don't leave it on him unsupervised.
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We have brindles, and when we brought Tito home from the pound, he came with ticks. I found the first one on him by feel, a miracle as his fur is so thick. He must've spread them to the yard, as we found them on the hounds; we removed them manually. I distinctly recalled they had a penchant for getting into the webbing on the feet- you really have to cover that area carefully.
Only one or two managed to attach, and not for very long. We then used chemicals to wipe out any that we had missed. There have been no problems since.
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Do they do the equivalent of a sed rate and C-reactive protein in dogs? Probably, but I dunno. Does your vet have any data on these?
One off-the-wall suggestion: knock wheat and corn out of the diet, if you haven't already.