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Canine Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA & IMHA) - Hemolytic-uremic syndrome in a dog: e coli
| I remember someone posting her about their dog having a rare cause of AIHA from exposure to e coli. I just was searching for something else and came across this article about hemolytic-uremic syndrome in a dog possibly caused by e coli. It is an interesting, but fairly scholarly, article. It might just be of help to someone in the future here. Patrice http://www.vetclinpathjournal.org/VOL34/vclp-34-3-264.pdf |
| Patrice New York State |
| Patrice, I believe I'm the one! Thanks for posting the link. I'm copying it and will give it to the specialist who saved Maddie's life. Maddie's doing great! This Friday she'll have her last (I hope) CBC related to the hemolytic event which nearly took her life until the specialist discovered it was e-coli related. The only issue she's facing now is getting a little more of the excess weight she gained off. One vet suggested giving her bread, and she loved it--eating about 9 pounds of bread a week! The specialist said to increase the amount of regular food she was getting since she'd been losing weight for months while eating well. Once she was on the right medication for her e-coli she stopped having diahhrea and started regaining the weight she'd lost. However, much to my chagrin, she gained a lot more! In the last six weeks she's lost six pounds. I've cut her food back a bit more and hope she'll lose another pound or two by Friday. In addition to that, she's going to be certified as a therapy dog. She got her CGC several years ago, but I never got around to getting her certified. Now's the time! Thanks again, Patrice! Ruth |
| Ruth Aptos |
| Ruth, I was just thinking about you and Maddie. Glad to hear she is doing so well other than the weight gain. I am sure she will make an excellent therapy dog. Boy could she tell a story! |
| Penny Lytle Creek Calif |
| Ruth, So glad to be of small help with information. You are one of the few of us who have, in hand, documented proof of what the exact cause was of the AIHA. (In this case it's actually IMHA.) And such great news that she survived and is doing so well! You must be so pleased with your vet to have understood this and acted so quickly to save her. I am happy to hear that you want to do therapy work with Maddie. Chance has been a therapy dog since he was 3yr old. It is indeed a wonderful experience and one that we miss very much since he has been sick. He misses it too very much and tries to great everyone he sees on the street when we go out for walks. May I caution you about certifying? We are certified with TDI and they require yearly vaccination boosters. In fact they have become very stubborn and made our last recertification process a nightmare for our vet because of their insistance on vaccinations, keeping her on hold one day for 15 min only to tell her, that well, I guess everything is in order, sorry for the trouble.... Owners do have the option to present a letter from a vet to bypass this requirement BUT it is very difficult and there must be a specific clincal reason for no vaccinations. I have always have a dermatologist specialist's letter explaining that Chance should never have vaccinations again due to his allergies and the shots he receives. They normally do not accept titers but in his case they insisted on seeing them and insisted that he be titered for low ones. Thus, he had a parvo "booster" nearly every year because they always showed low. Parvo is one of the vaccinations that can be related to serious immune difficulties. I can't say for sure that this caused him any health problems and I will never know, but still I am sorry I did it. Delta will accept titers but it is harder to find testers for this program. Thus I went with TDI because the testing process was easier to access. TDI has become almost paranoid in recent years. This last year they caused a lot of grief by forbidding any TDI dog to be used for any other program but TDI. They are having a hard time getting insurance because people don't report incidences on visits that might compromise TDI. From hereon in, I will be working with the same facility I have always gone to and they will allow me to visit without certification. So I will never use either organization again. I will probably get an umbrella insurance policy over the top of my regular insurance to cover these visits. Patrice |
| Patrice New York State |
| Patrice, Dr. Dodds will do Titers and write a letter stating dogs with diseases such as ours have had should not be vaccinated. She also is very very reasonable. I had my healthy dog titered to try to avoid this years rabies as well as to see if he was protected for Parvo and distemper. (He was an abandoned dog so we did not know his history) It cost almost $500.00 through my regular Vet and when I talked to Dr. Dodds she said she would have done it for $75.00 Unfortunately our County will not accept Titers and I did not want to get them fired up by fighting it in case they changed the rules and no longer accepted them for compromised dogs. Hopefully someday it will be recognized that we are killing our pets and ourselves by pumping in all these chemicals. Glad to hear Chance is doing so well. Penny |
| Penny Lytle Creek Calif |
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