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Diagnostics:
On 04
of May, in 2007 we brought her to a clinical test,
because her symptoms became stronger, and the periods
always longer. She lost a lot of her weight, drinking
whole day, and her belly was huge. Our local vet was not
able to say anything without diagnostical instruments. I
was sure Marie has tumor. (in our family noone have
diabetes, thats why if the local vet dont say it is a
possibility i never tought to it). In May, under her
monitoring it cleared, that this "belly-tumor" is her
vesica, and there isnt any kind of organic mutation or
disease (tumor). Her labor-check was excellent (fit to
her age or better), only her blood glucose was high, it
appeared in her urine, too. I was really happy about it!
Marie had "only" diabetes. But on the clinic vets said:
"dont be so happy, this is a very serious disease, with
many complications, and the daily checking,
insuline-giving and the diet's adherence not as easy as
you think it for first sight."
They also suggested me the spay, but Marie was over her
9th year, she was weak and her blood glucose was in the
sky. We decided that first we stabilize her
glucose-level, and later we can talk about the spay. In
bitches it can gives solution in many cases: this
perodical diabetes could be connected by the
endocrin-system's changes, as well progesterone-level's
lifting.Thats why after the spay sympoms disappears and
blood glucose would stand back to the normal level. |
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The first period:
For a long time every
morning and evening we were on the clinic for checking
and regulationing. She got higher and higer doses of
insuline, but the reaction was very slow. During this
time i pestered everyone in my enviroment with the
diabetes, because i had no idea about its meaning,
causes, and what i have to take care. Step by step we
had every accessoires to the home-treatment. We learnt
how to meter it, how to use the insuline, what we have
to take care on diet, etc...and Marie became day by day
better, her estate stabilized. Than on a day (it was
whit monday, so freeday), after a long and tireable
month i went to a show, so my husband gave them
breakfast and the insuline to Marie. It was about 10 o
clock a.m., when he called me in panic that Marie feels
really bad. I shocked and asked him to measure her blood
glucose immidiately. It was 2,2. (hypoglycemia) He tried
to lift it up with honey and glucose. At about noon it
was a bit better, but from this moment she didnt get
insuline. Evening it was low, too, but near the normal.
Morning it was 2,2 again, without insuline. In effect it
stand back by its own to the normal level.
Everything became
clear: the season throw off the balance of the
endocrin-system. The periodicity, the earlier symptoms,
and its fade away. But while she regenerated and i was
on the horns of dilemma (may i put her to the operation
table or not) the other bitches's season started her
next season too, within 3 months. We got into a tight
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The second period:
She became in season on
29 of July. Here we had much more routin, and i counted:
correlate to the first day of her season, exactly 1
month elapsed till the first symptoms's appearance. And
after one month the blood glucose stand back to the
normal level. In the meanwhile period her tests was
really good: between 4,2-4,9; the normal values.
The first sympoms came
forward at the end of the season: hacking, get exciting,
heaving. She was looking for some emetic grass, and day
by day drinking more and more. We begin to measure her
blood glucose frequently two times a day, what slowly
but surely lifted up. Her blood glucose got the critical
level on 29 of july, from this time she begin to use the
insuline. I quiet down, because we were in time,
measured, checked, and prepared ourself to the next hard
period. We also changed on diet. But there wasn't
visible signs of improvement. On 31 of July she was a
bag of bones, her skin and coat is matted and scaly. Her
blood glucose was in the sky again. I had some
consultation with our vets, but unfortunately both of
them was on holiday. Marie felt crummy hour by hour. She
was weak, at least dumped, and to Friday afternoon (03
of Aug) her third eye-lid hidden her eyes a lot, and her
skull muscles became oedematic. (i tought for two nights
she will not staying alive)
She got the maximum
dose of insuline to her bodyweight, so we werent enough
brave to lift it up, because we didnt know: why the
blood glucose is so high. If this symptom causes by the
Somogyi-effect, with a bigger dose os insuline i can
kill her. But if the insuline is not enough, i can lift
the dose up. At least we got help from the local vet,
who gave me some quick-actioned insuline on Friday
evening, and also made a test with urine-glucose, what
gave us the result: the dose of insuline is low. She
could have more. We also changed the diet to bottled
food, what has a big force: the dog can eat all time the
same portion with the same digestive-parameters. Well,
those two things: the combinated and lifted insuline and
the bottledfood-diet did its work: gradually the blood
glucose drived down to the normal parameters, but in
practice there werent big fluctuations more. Her mood
became better, as well as her estate. Her coat became
shinny again. Now we are on the end of the second week,
full with hope, and if we will accordance the book, she
have to alive two more weeks. But i decided: if we are
over this period i will make the spay. |
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Lessons and experiences:
1., If a dog drinks a
lot, visible losts his weight in some days, his coat
became matt and scaly, as well it is hacking, get
exciting and heaving, we always have to think to
diabetes, without reference to its age and sex. If we
can see periodicity in it, mainly think about diabetes.
2., Diabetes at dogs is
a REAL serious disease, with the possibility of hard
effects and interwoves, what can worsen the dog's
wellfare and life-possibilities a lot.
3., This is really not
sure that a periodical case the similar doses of
insuline will be enough-like at the first time- my
experience that season by season it is harder and much
more agility: every time we may need a bigger doses of
insuline. 4., And
the continuation:Marie schedued to the operation on 11.
november 2007. It was harder than i tought, because
after 3 months she became to season again. Before this
operation i tried to upgrade her condition as well in
her food as the VMP-balance.
5., But on the day of the
operation vets diagnostisated a smallcell mammal-tumor
all over her mammals. Because the x-ray couldnt find
chest-transmission, we decided about the operation. It
was a hard and long surgery, but Marie did it well.
However i could bring her home only the next day,
because she had complications on the evening. 6.,
When she came home she was laying for long days with
empty expression and she didnt care about her
enviroment. Her general condition was rewarding, but
where were this condition to my hysterical,grouchy,
agility old Marie! Such a foreign dog.
Four
days after the surgery she became a bit alive, but same
day her legs became aqueous. She didnt want to get up,
if she did, her moving was really slow and hard. This
exertion brought the solution: evening I called the vet
in a panic-attack, with the surgery-area bloody fluid
shoot out.
7.,
Later i had to guess it was a good and usefull thing and
only this area cleaned, but that time i felt this is the
end. When i write this, it is the 6th day after her
operation, and Marie became stronger hour by hour.
Yesterday evening she got up by herself, she wanted two
slides of chocolate (nothing else, thank you) and now
she is cleaning herself and feels good.
8., I
hope she will be okay and I do not have to enrich her
diary with more issues for a long-long time! 9., I
recommend to everyone, who has a bitch: lets make the
spay at your earliest convenience, and at bithes in
breeding after the last litter it would be very usefull,
too; to protect them against the diabetes and all other
diseases and complications! |
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Roxanne
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Hasznos
irodalom:
Diabetes mellitus-Dr. Bölcsházy Gábor www.epa.oszk.hu
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