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Update On Seizuring Bichon
by lsargent - September 7, 2009
I just heard from the owner and Pasqual is doing well on San Ren Tang. He no longer barks at the refigerator begging for food, is happy and is able to pass through previous stressful moments that no longer predispose him to seizures.
His owner ran out of the KBr an d he missed 4 doses resulting in a mild seizure of perhps 15 seconds and after she spoke to him and offered him a cookie, he wagged his tail and was completely out of the seizure. When she forgot to give one dose ofthe pheno, he had a longer seizure and was not so easily brought out of the episode. These two events were unrelated and separated by a couple of weeks, so the blood level effect was not a consideration in my opinion.
My question, finally is can we start weaning him off the KBr slowly and is there a formula that would help in the reduction of the medicine?

TIA,
Lois
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by naturevet
September 7, 2009
Hi Lois,

At this point you can start weaning off the KBr. I go slow, maybe 15% reductions every few weeks. I just use the same formula and diets that have achieved seizure control while already on KBr - in this case San Ren Tang.

In these cases, if you wean slowly enough, the seizure tendency often just seems to fizzle out.

Continued good luck!

Steve
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