Penny.
Penny was 16 months old when she came into rescue. A frightened little girl, scared of men and anything that moved. She was teken to a new home where she would be helped to learn that she was safe.
Penny was taken to the vet to be spayed on tuesday and to have a small amount taken off her tail. She had leanred what i was like ot be loved and sufferred from 'happy tail', wagging it so much she damaged the end of it by hitting it on walls and anything else that was near.
Surgery went well and Penny went home on tuesday. Wedesday she was fine, eating, drinking, pottering about and taking her meds without any issue.
On thursday Penny started with soft, loose but not watery poo. Not really unexpected, after all she had undergone surgery and had an anasthetic..
On Friday, Penny started with explosive, bloody diarrhoea which worsend over the day. She went for her post-op checkup but it was decided to give her probiotics, pasta and fish and give her body time to settle.
She worsened overnight and was taken back to the vet on saturday but it was decided to treat her at home. Penny had, by now stopped eating and drinking and after returning to the vet on Sunday was admitted for IV fluid therapy and antibiotics as she had become dehydrated.
Penny had various treatments and blood tests during her stay in the vets but she continued to deteriorate and yesterday(Monday) was transferred to the vetinary hospital in Manchester for specialist treatment.
The local vet had discounted a Metacam reaction as the cause as the kidney and liver parts of the blood tests had not shown signigicant deteriration but on examination at the vet hospital it was decided that the cause the the issues was a reaction to Metacam which can in some cases not affect kidneys but cause significant gastrointestinal bleeding.
Penny is currently on IV fluids to help replace those she is loosing. Her bone marrow is struggling to produce enough red blood cells to replace the ones being lost in the bleeding - she was going to the toiletevery 30 minutes but this has now reduced to every 3 hours but on each occasion she looses blood and fluids.
The good news is that she has now started to drink water (not enough to replace what she is loosing) and started to eat small amounts of food but she is still a long way from recovery.
The hospital are carrying out tests etc to try and locate the bleed which is thought to be in the lower GI tract. Once located, decisions can be made about how this can be treated or stopped.
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There are some photos below that may be considered a little graphic but they have been included to show what has happened in the hope that anyone whos dog has just started on Metacam and experiences these symptoms will contact their vet asap for an assessment.
