Case Details
Baby by cynthialankenau
Acute Hepatitis
   

Signalment

  • Age: 4 months
  • Species: alpaca

Disease Notes

  • Certainty: confirmed
  • Final Status: resolved as of day 21

Treatment and Outcome


Treatments
Day 21

Notes:  Baby was recumbent and severely icteric. She was 4 months ago and had been wormed with Ivermectin, became weak. Her owners thought it was a meningeal worm issue and repeated her ivermectin, she then become severely icteric. Her regular veterinarian recommended euthanasia.
Sh was put on Xiao Chai Hu Tang and in 3 weeks was clinically normal.

Diet is largely raw

Acupuncture points were stimulated