Just a good news case that I thought should be recorded. A beautiful 3 year old Irish Wolfhound who travelled here by boat and bloated and torsed on arrival. The local vet performed a gastropexy and splenectomy and all was well until the next boat rip here when she dilated again, then had chronic diarrhoea. Exploratory lapaarotomy , gut biopsies revealed eosinophilic gastr enteritis. She was placed on hydrosylated dry food and pred 1 mg/kg bid. On presentation to me 3 weeks ago she was 37 kg, depressed, nd suffering 5 to 6 bouts liquid diarrhoea daily, no straining but occasional blood and mucus. Interestingly she had an old fx site ( plate removed, with callus medial radius/ulna))I gave her Ap to clear heat, support spleen and Huo Xiang zheng qi san. Today she was 41 kg, and such a happy dog with no diarrhoea and planning the next boat trip. My thoughts were to stay on the Huo Xiang Zheng qi san until signs of heat have gone and then Wei Ling tang to try and prevent future dilation events? How long doe this normally take? We have stayed with the hydrosylated food have tried chicken..ok, the dry food with the non hydrosylated carbs..caused 2 days diarrhoea, and beef and vege and barley home cooked..caused 1 day diarrhoea.
Kind regards
Susan