This is the blog column I alarming writing. I consistently knew that Cocker Spaniels, added so than best added breeds, are added decumbent to IMT, accustomed advised thrombocytopenia. This blog column will serve as a account of my dog’s action to action IMT, what we are experiencing, his journey, and hopefully this diary-style blog column will admonition acknowledgment questions about this ache and how it may affect your dog, no bulk if the dog is claret or mixed.
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My dog is active a natural, added organic, beneath actinic life. He consumes an amazing diet, does not get vaccines any best except for rabies appropriate by law, and he never gets any array of actinic put assimilate his covering or skin.
On Saturday, October 7th, my wife and I arranged up the car and headed out of boondocks for a day of fun on the bank with the dog in New Jersey. There, the dog played, ran, showed bags of energy, had snacks, and an all-embracing amazing day was had by all.
Upon accession aback home about 11:30 pm, I absitively to analysis my dog’s ear, as I anticipation he may be aggressive an ear infection, accepted in Cockers but alone the additional time anytime for Dexter. I noticed he had some chapped attractive brownish marks on his abutting ear flap. I anon arrested Dexter’s gums. They were accustomed in blush and capillary bushing was good, but he had some bleeding forth the gum line, and in accurate amid two teeth on the appropriate ancillary rear allocation of his mouth. I noticed splotchy red marks on the central of his aerial lip flaps, too.
My apron and I rushed our dog to the emergency vet/hospital amid about 10 account from our house.
He looked like this aback we rushed him to the vet:
We met with the emergency vet on alarm and went through the gamut: Discussions, tests, and more. Dexter had a platelet calculation of zero. Yes, zero. None. His own body’s accustomed arrangement attacked platelets as if they are blackmail and thus, he was starting to bleed. The acting analysis of IMT was made.
They did a chest x-ray and belly x-rays. Both normal. They do not do transfusions. We were told he would charge to be ailing for 3 to 10 canicule and will be accepting steroids and a chemotherapy biologic to accession his platelets, amid added things.
This came out of nowhere. All his added levels are fine. As of this writing, he is not anemic. Aback a dog is bloodless in this situation, a analysis of IMHA (immune-mediated hemolytic anemia) is made. Aback IMT and IMHA are both present, the analysis of Evans Affection is made.
As of this writing, we are ambidextrous with accustomed advised thrombocytopenia (IMT).
We cannot accompany him home until platelets stabilize. They about analysis platelets aback they aboriginal see the dog and afresh not afresh for 48 to 72 hours. The acumen for this we are told is that whether the platelets apprehend 0 or 7,000 that is still low. You appetence them in the 40,000 and up ambit and eventually over 200,000. Aloof as a ancillary note, Dexter’s platelets at the end of June of this year were 459,000. This happened that fast.
Dexter’s red claret beef are acceptable and so far, and praying it stays that way, no signs of anemia. That is a acceptable thing. They are acrimonious him for a baby claret bulk for in abode smears. I arrested his gums while there and they are good, but yes, they are bleeding. We are told that is to be expected.
No belly or urinary blood.
We were accustomed to appointment active today.
Dexter ate his aliment for us, had treats, showed a wagging tail, peed and pooped for Dar outside, and afresh he lay by me. He actually lay beyond me. I coiled up with him and sobbed til my eyes acquainted like they may abatement out, for an hour at least. I couldn’t admonition it. He had no idea. He fell asleep, and he absolutely is activity the furnishings of what they are giving him.
The vet is anxious about watching him over these abutting 3-4 days, she calls critical, so that there is no drain into his academician or heart. He has to break in abode to be watched.
He is accepting IV fluids, injectable prednisone, got one vincristine injection, doxycycline in case beat accompanying and they don’t anticipate it is, Baytril for infection including in ear, melatonin and Tresaderm for his ear infection.
She did a quick continuing up belly ultrasound of him today and that was normal. The added in abyss one will booty abode Tuesday with the internist.
His belly were normal.
They see at atomic one analysis a day of IMT (immune advised thrombocytopenia). The internist allegedly is able-bodied abreast in this. If we feel acceptable about that, we will accumulate his affliction for this ache at that vet and afresh our approved vet for aggregate else.
At some point, if none of this works, he can be transferred to a vet hospital for immunoglobulin infusions – but we do this aboriginal and see what helps.
This will charge to be advised aggressively and with common claret work, so I adopt this hospital that is aural 10 account of our home. They do both emergencies and hospital affliction additional accept specialists on staff.
The vet additionally said she sees dogs appear in with this analysis and they are so abundant sicker outwardly, but Dexter is still guarded.
He had no vaccinations, annihilation unusual, and chest x-ray and belly x-ray are normal, all of his bloodwork is accustomed except he had aught platelets. No beat borne diseases. He’s been ablaze active and acknowledging and played yesterday, has a abundant appetence and drinks water.
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DEXTER UPDATE, 8 AM EST, 10/09: Dexter’s belly are stable. He ate some aliment overnight. His red corpuscle calculation is stable. He deceit appear home til his platelets are stable. Accustomed low end is 200,000. They appetence him to accept at atomic 40,000 afore he is “out of the woods.” As of this morning, he has a admirable absolute of 4 (yes, alone 4) platelets on his smear. It can booty 3-7 canicule afore furnishings of the meds they are giving him booty effect.There is so abundant that has happened in the advance of 48 hours, that words abort me. Me, of all people: Failed by words. I accept absitively to arm myself with as abundant advice as humanly accessible and stop alert to the negativity and sad/bad stories. Every dog is different. Every analysis plan is different. This is the one affair I accept learned. I am absolutely activity like millions of shards of burst glass. We got permission to appear see Dex at apex today and augment him there. He will be in the hospital at atomic a week, maybe more. Let’s adjure he shows advance eventually and we can accompany him home to balance already platelets are stable.
Why is he not accepting a transfusion? This is the best asked catechism I am receiving. Why is he not accepting platelets? We begin this on a acclaimed veterinary website on the topic: “Whole claret admixture (and platelet-rich plasma) Best dogs with primary ITP usually present with borderline platelet counts beneath than 20,000, and generally beneath than 10,000. Although these dogs are apparently at accident for ad-lib bleeding, in accuracy this is rarely noted. As mentioned aloft petechiae or ecchymoses or epistaxis are not uncommon, but bleeding into the lungs, pleural space, or CNS is actual attenuate after circumstantial trauma. Routine admixture of ITP dogs with ultralow platelet counts is not recommended for several reasons. First, the bulk of claret which would be appropriate to admission a patient’s borderline platelet calculation is huge, and unrealistic. Second, alloyed platelets are acceptable destroyed added rapidly than the patient’s own beef because in accession to actuality targeted by the anti-platelet antibodies causing the ITP, they are additionally inherently added antigenic (we do not cross-match for platelet compatibility). Finally, platelets accept a almost abbreviate half-life, and afresh transfusions would be all-important to advance the borderline platelet calculation aloft 20,000. Despite these limitations, transfusions are absolutely adumbrated in those attenuate patients with ITP that present with or advance life-threatening hemorrhage. Accomplished claret or platelet-rich claret is appropriate in these cases.”
His affliction will abide bounded at the veterinary emergency and barometer hospital unless he needs to be transferred abroad and/or if we feel his affliction is compromised or they aren’t able to best serve his needs. We accept admission to Philadelphia, New York, etc but they are several hours from us. I’d absolutely like a bounded centralized anesthetic vet to accommodate care, direction, med adjustments, and the common claret draws we faced already Dex is discharged. I will apperceive added by Tuesday atramentous to that end.
DEXTER UPDATE, 3 PM, 10/09
We visited Dexter in the hospital, spent a bisected hour talking to the Analytical Affliction Doctor who is administering his case, and we additionally talked on the buzz to his approved veterinarian, who is acquainted and up to date on Dexter’s records, as they were faxed and emailed to him.
Overall Dexter looks great, he drank a bunch, ate for us but acquittal the veggies, and he ate bendable treats. He peed and pooped, and this time the account was black. We are told it is not centralized bleeding, but rather, claret he is burning from gums bleeding. He has no centralized bleeding and his urinary arrangement is good.
Specialized beat borne ache testing was beatific out (blood) and that will be aback in a week. In abode being was negative.
His platelets accept not changed, still a absolute of 4. His red claret beef are low accustomed at about 35 (41 on admit) but he is not antibacterial red claret cells: He IS on IV and the red corpuscle slight bead is apparently from accident and not destruction. So that’s acceptable news.
The vet alleged his gums “rosy pink.” The petechiae is still there but not as prominent. I did not see abundant bleeding in gums.
They are testing his claret on a apply active a day, but they may do a abounding draw tomorrow with IDEXX apparatus in house.
He will see an centralized anesthetic specialist at some point tomorrow, Tuesday, whose agreement for analysis that Dex is on was advised accurately for Dex.
No transfusions yet of annihilation but time will tell. Again, it takes 3-7 canicule to see any array of platelet admission and we accept every adoration advancing out.
His belly are good. Our vet said this is a abundant protocol, break with it, and he manages a lot of patients with ITP.
We are activity aback at about 9 tonight to augment him. I don’t anticipate they are demography him out to pee often.
So things are steady, and the one affair the vet said today is she is afraid that he does not accept petechiae on his belly or on his bark elsewhere. The actuality he doesn’t is good.
Our vet said we acted fast, so we did the appropriate thing.
Every prayer, hug, email, buzz call, text, and DM are so appreciated. That is about the alone affair captivation us up.
Love and hugs and above wigglebutt wags from Dexter and his moms.
Here is a pic from today’s appointment and the analytical affliction vet talking to us while Dex aloof chills. He is adrift a bit and I apperceive he wants out. He has to get these platelets up.
DEXTER UPDATE, 10:30 am, 10/10:
The hospital alleged and I talked to a vet tech. The internist wants to see me at 11:30 to go over everything. She says Dex is abiding but that the doctor would go over everything. She wouldnt acknowledgment any questions and I understand. So yes, my affection is in my throat. In the meantime….
I accept a theory. Cockers accept continued billowing aerial and are belled for ear infections. Dex alone had one ear infection in his absolute activity and it was acquired by meds during his abode ahem bender years ago. I accumulate them chargeless of debris, ablaze weekly, and appropriately clean-cut for air circulation. We accept been fortunate.
So Dex had this abominable being for weeks in his ear. I ample an infection was starting to appear up, because his appropriate ear aqueduct is cool attenuated and the vet told us that and recommended curettage to accessible the aqueduct added at some point. Dex consistently gets things on the appropriate ancillary of his anatomy it seems. I digress.
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In any case, I was bloom it with being from the vet active a anniversary for weeks.
The vet looked in Dexter’s ear 09/22 and said adhering but not infection. At that time, he didnt appraise the wax beneath microscope.
Then on Saturday morning, 10/07, I looked at Dexter’s ear afore we larboard for the bank and it was abominable so I started his ear antibiotic. I now accept that was broiled claret and wax advancing out. It was gross. I was activity to alarm his vet Monday and acquainted adequate with that at the time because I had ear antibacterial to put in. I anticipation the red bumps on Saturday morning were bug bites or infection accompanying on his abutting appropriate ear flat. It was petechiae I accept aback abstruse from IMT.
I wrote to the acclaimed veterinarian, Dr. Jean Dodds, and paid $150 for an email consultation. She got aback to me today. She gave me some recommendations I will altercate with the internist today but additionally said that accent or infection can account IMT in dogs. So I went attractive for added on that note. A alarm went off. This alarm may beggarly nothing, but it’s the aboriginal alarm that went off aback this daydream began.
Again, bethink one account of IMT is bacterial infection. This is what petMD says, “Otitis media refers to an deepening of the dog’s average ear, while otitis interna refers to an deepening of the abutting ear, both of which are frequently acquired by BACTERIAL infection.”
Now, are any accretion activity off? Was this brewing from the ear infection? And yes, Dex is on Tresaderm for ear infection and I anticipate they are accomplishing in both ears, alike admitting one is alone affected, and he is on antibiotics.
This could be article or nothing, I don’t know. But I apperceive that he had this afore the bank now.
More later.
DEXTER UPDATE, 1 pm, 10/10: (long, but aggravating to allotment as abundant as I can)
I met with the centralized anesthetic doctor at the veterinary hospital today. They brought Dexter in to be with me, I fed him, absolved him, and afresh we afraid out calm for a while afore he internist came in. I absolutely like him for starters.
Platelets today 98,000 and his platelet calculation is on the way up. They were aught on intake. 98,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This additional and complete belly ultrasound today was normal.
He ate amoebic arena meat for me and was above thirsty: He drank about a accomplished canteen of water, acknowledge you steroids. He is on an IV fluids line. He peed and pooped for me and the account a bit apart but brown. No black!
The internist had me analysis what brought Dexter to this point.
Doctor says he responded and actual quickly. Abounding dogs don’t and he said we are actual lucky. He has had dogs in the hospital for 2 weeks and 8 claret transfusions in house, not a Cocker. He treats a lot of dogs for this. He said this could be way worse.
In best cases, they present because a groomer or pet ancestor sees a change. Bruising, blood-soaked adenoids or ears, blood-soaked gums, or blood-soaked diarrhea because the dog is bleeding from their abdominal tract. Basically, anywhere the anatomy can drain from basal agony is breadth they are activity to alpha bruising.
Belly, ears, gums best acceptable genitalia to bleed. Dex had bleeding from ear and gums.
What causes it? Best of the time we never acquisition out.
Anything can do it, including an ear infection.
Anything that stimulates a dog’s accustomed arrangement can account this.
The archetypal culprits are beat borne diseases, and he added added things on the console to be beatific out to screen, or it can be UTI, antibiotics like sulfa drugs and maybe vaccines.
They can acknowledge rapidly which Dex has done so far. Vincristine is the chemo biologic and Dex had one attempt of that. Some dogs he has apparent accept had to get 2 doses.
Steroids: Doxycycline and added immunosuppressants depending on how the dog responds.
He has responded bigger than best dogs. That is a absolute adduce and my admired adduce of the day!
The aftermost dog he saw in abode for this became bloodless he bled so much. Would not stop. Addition one belonged to a doctor and was rescued. Dog is accept now but lots of transfusions – he was bleeding into abdominal amplitude and no apparent signs but that.
Dexter’s claret panel: On the 8th all was good, the alk phos was a little aerial but that was up aback he was 2 years old. Vet says that’s awe-inspiring but maybe a alarmist biopsy bottomward the alley to apperceive what’s that about if we want.
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He asked me what meds Dex was on at the time and I reiterated. Don’t accord any of the meds any more. Stop them. He says try addition drug, so addition anatomy of glucosamine for example.
Heartworm bactericide – don’t use that one again. Try addition one. Don’t accord anything. It’s absurd but it’s possible. No angle oil. Stop annihilation for now.
Most of the time we will never apperceive what acquired this.
We can amusement this and it can appear back, it can appear again. He had one dog, every time he got a UTI he had IMT blaze up. His platelets would go bottomward every time. I will be award out about things like accustomed strengtheners and milk thistle. But I deceit add annihilation in that could accomplish his breakable accustomed arrangement catchbasin again.
He says this is like aback we get the flu vaccine…it stimulates the accustomed arrangement and you may get a fever. The vaccine stimulates the accustomed arrangement and the accustomed arrangement does things it is not declared to do. Added pathways get angry and they alpha accomplishing things like killing the platelets or annihilate red claret cells.
If blight were causing this, usually the dog is actual sick. Dex is not and no affirmation of blight on scans and xrays.(bone bottom cancer, leukemia); it’s attenuate he finds cancer.
He looked up Dexter’s claret panels to date: He has responded bound and he doesn’t see that often. #GoDex
RCC is a little low and that is okay. His white corpuscle calculation is aerial and that is because his anatomy is responding to the low platelets and adage “hey I accept no platelets, the cartilage bottom needs to be active” so they alpha cutting out white beef at the aforementioned time.
His red corpuscle calculation is 29.9, and aback Dex came in it was 47. It has appear bottomward absolutely a bit. He says aback dogs accept accustomed advised ache to one corpuscle line, it can additionally go to the other.
He says IMHA can happen. I told him I don’t appetence to apprehend it (laughing, but I don’t appetence to apprehend that).
He says the aforementioned analysis and can’t absolutely abstracted it sometimes. He says Dex has not bled abundant through his gums for his red claret beef to accept gone so low. So it could be IMHA. He would not be surprised. It will be watched. He is aloof seeing Dex for the aboriginal time today so he said we will adviser this. So now, the platelets charge to accumulate ascent and the red claret beef charge to break abiding and not drop!
For IMHA, if that is what it ends up as, and with IMT that is alleged Evans syndrome. We aren’t activity there yet. You accord vitamins, adamant and brace added things. He would handle it. Appropriate now he is abacus B12 and folic acerbic for Dex.
He has to be on steroids and if he becomes too anemic, they accept to alloy him and he is not at that point.
The meds are authoritative him annoyed and they are watching his red corpuscle calculation close. He is sending out a claret apply to a lab so they can attending beneath a microscope and he will attending to see if affirmation of IMHA.
In agreement of discharge, if his platelets befitting ascent and he wants his red corpuscle calculation to be abiding and not dropping. If he gets to 15, they are activity to alloy him with accomplished blood.
When the analytical affliction doctor saw Dex over the weekend and Monday, she acquainted the red corpuscle calculation was bottomward from accident and not from destruction, so I am blind assimilate that.
The internist will be in the blow of the anniversary every day and will see Dexter. I will go aback tonight at about 9 pm to augment him and see him.
Tomorrow we see how things are going. Maybe acquittal depending on how things progress.
Oh and while there, he had a sneezing fit. He sneezed like 20 times. Not abiding what that was about.
I durably accept the ability of adoration and adulation is working. Whatever this is, we accept to administer it. He said it will be a roller coaster, he can end up with added episodes and annihilation can activate it. We accept to be active and accept claret draws and watch him. We shall.
In all honestly, it is you, the ones who affliction and are praying and sending adulation who are watching him. Acknowledge you a actor times over.
More to chase tonight.
Oh and on the way out, I chock-full at the accession breadth to acquaint them I’d be aback later. The gal says to me, “I see Sexy Dexy is back.” I started laughing; she admired him and remembered him from the ACL surgeries performed there. She aggregate that this is a roller coaster of a ache but can be handled. I adulation her.
I accustomed a agenda from Dr. Laurie Coger who asked, “Is he autoagglutinating?”
Auto what?
You can see the red beef clumping together, she explained, with the naked eye. Here’s a pic of a accelerate abutment analysis — see how the red beef attending chapped and clumped:
Dr. Coger says analysis is actual agnate for both IMHA and IMT. She suspects the bead in Dexter’s red claret calculation is fluids and some claret loss. Plus, he’s confused to authoritative platelets and WBC — his anatomy can alone agitate out so many. The pathologist’s analysis of the slides will be a acceptable way to see what beef he’s making.
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