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Sick Husky: throws up and has yellow eyes!
My husky is on a mixture diet where she eats blue buffalo lamb food and raw like fish and duck (uncooked bones and all)
I ran out of her normal food and had to feed her what my mom's dogs eat which is Eukanuba chicken mateinance for adult dogs. She is about to be 2 years old. Immediately after feeding her the food she threw it up still looking like whole pieces of food not chewed up. I gave her some water and she drank it and ran around happily. I went to work and came back and she had thrown up again, this time yellow bile. She was happy and rambunctious still so I gave her more water and some scarmbled eggs and she went to bed. In the morning around 5 am she had thrown up real bad so I cleaned her up and gave her more water no food. To let her stomach settle. I went to work and had my mom keep an eye on her. When I got back she was groggy and lethargic. I noticed her gums were yellow and her eyes (the iris where it is usually blue) was yellowish-green and cloudy. She wasn't "talking" like she usually dies so I gave her water and she threw it up immediately and ignored it.
SO!
I ran her to the vet right away (It has only been a day a half now of these symptoms her eyes JUST turning yellow) The vet took a blood test and her temperature. Everything was fine her white blood cell count was just a little high. She had diareah so the fecal was not very accurate but nothing he could see. He gave her an antibiotic, a shot for naseau, pills for naseau and Cephalexin pills three times a day to fight a bacterial infection (What he thinks it is). She is only allowed to have scrambled eggs and rice and cottage cheese but she still doesn't eat. She refuses water entirely and her eyes are still this ugly green muck colored. Now she has a super dry nose and mucus in eyes.
What should I do?
Should I trust the vet and keep going with the pills or could it be something worse like kidney problems?
I'm really worried. She ignored a cat yesterday entirely which is not at all like her!
Thanks for responding
LoriLai
I ran out of her normal food and had to feed her what my mom's dogs eat which is Eukanuba chicken mateinance for adult dogs. She is about to be 2 years old. Immediately after feeding her the food she threw it up still looking like whole pieces of food not chewed up. I gave her some water and she drank it and ran around happily. I went to work and came back and she had thrown up again, this time yellow bile. She was happy and rambunctious still so I gave her more water and some scarmbled eggs and she went to bed. In the morning around 5 am she had thrown up real bad so I cleaned her up and gave her more water no food. To let her stomach settle. I went to work and had my mom keep an eye on her. When I got back she was groggy and lethargic. I noticed her gums were yellow and her eyes (the iris where it is usually blue) was yellowish-green and cloudy. She wasn't "talking" like she usually dies so I gave her water and she threw it up immediately and ignored it.
SO!
I ran her to the vet right away (It has only been a day a half now of these symptoms her eyes JUST turning yellow) The vet took a blood test and her temperature. Everything was fine her white blood cell count was just a little high. She had diareah so the fecal was not very accurate but nothing he could see. He gave her an antibiotic, a shot for naseau, pills for naseau and Cephalexin pills three times a day to fight a bacterial infection (What he thinks it is). She is only allowed to have scrambled eggs and rice and cottage cheese but she still doesn't eat. She refuses water entirely and her eyes are still this ugly green muck colored. Now she has a super dry nose and mucus in eyes.
What should I do?
Should I trust the vet and keep going with the pills or could it be something worse like kidney problems?
I'm really worried. She ignored a cat yesterday entirely which is not at all like her!
Thanks for responding
LoriLai
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I would ask your vet about the possibility of your dog having contracted infectious Leptospirosis. There HAVE been occasions when even vaccinated dogs have contracted this, though it's not frequent that happens, but it can.
This is treatable, if it is Leptosirosis, but the faster it is treated the better.
This is treatable, if it is Leptosirosis, but the faster it is treated the better.
Sorry, just meant to add, it is vital you keep going with the pills. Like any antibiotic, the whole course must be used (don't stop giving them even if she gets much better).
Like Karla, the thought about toxicity from the raw meats came to my mind too. Has she been on this same diet for a long time - and do you always get the food from the same source? Dogs are natural scavengers, so raw meats are ok providing they have been reared on them from a young age and providing the quality of the raw meat is guaranteed to be safe and good.
There's something about the symptoms that doesn't make me think about parvovirus, though it is impossible to discount it without blood work analysis. Hopefully you can confirm she has been vaccinated and has had her boosters annually, as Karla asked. Heavy vomiting is typically linked to parvo, though I would have thought if it were, your dog would actually be more severely immobilised by now.
High white blood count suggests she is trying to fight off an infection or virus - which the Cephalaxin should treat adequately, along with any urinary tract infections that may be present. I would suggest telephoning the vet back again if she hasn't shown marked improvement within 72 hrs.
There's something about the symptoms that doesn't make me think about parvovirus, though it is impossible to discount it without blood work analysis. Hopefully you can confirm she has been vaccinated and has had her boosters annually, as Karla asked. Heavy vomiting is typically linked to parvo, though I would have thought if it were, your dog would actually be more severely immobilised by now.
High white blood count suggests she is trying to fight off an infection or virus - which the Cephalaxin should treat adequately, along with any urinary tract infections that may be present. I would suggest telephoning the vet back again if she hasn't shown marked improvement within 72 hrs.
Another thought....Could this be Parvo Virus? Was she tested for Parvo? Since she's young, it needs to ruled out....Has she been vaccinated against it?
How about Salmonella Poisoning from the raw meat & bones????
How about Salmonella Poisoning from the raw meat & bones????
Hi LoriLai....Yellow eyes is a Liver problem, yet her bloodwork was fine? Hum???? It sounds like she's being poisoned! Do you have any other details that you can think of?
I have to be somewhere so I cant's elaborate, now...Others will come by to help.....In the meantime.....Start thinking of any toxins she could have gotten into......I'll come back later.....Best wishes......Karla
I have to be somewhere so I cant's elaborate, now...Others will come by to help.....In the meantime.....Start thinking of any toxins she could have gotten into......I'll come back later.....Best wishes......Karla
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