Dear Dr. John,
Our daughter lives in Colorado and lately discovered a Golden Retriever pet to deliver house. We picked up the pet and her historical past famous two vaccines and a historical past of coccidia. Upon having our vet see the canine, we realized that the vaccines got when she was too younger. Also, a fecal confirmed that she had been uncovered to different parasites as nicely. Most considerably, she has been a urinary machine ever since we obtained her and had been leaking urine. A urine dipstick confirmed a urinary tract an infection, so she was began on antibiotics. An emergency facility gave us an anti-inflammatory for her leaking which has since resolved but in addition had us schedule an appointment with a specialist to rule out one thing referred to as an ectopic ureter. She remains to be urinating so very ceaselessly. How frequent is that this situation and is it treatable? C.Okay.
Dear C.Okay.,
Ectopic ureters in canines usually are not quite common. I’ve solely seen two circumstances in my apply profession. The incidence of this situation in canines is lower than one half of 1 p.c. The Golden Retriever is among the extra generally affected breeds. Given the breed and intercourse of your canine I believe you might be headed in the suitable path and a specialist will seemingly do a cystoscopy to verify the attainable prognosis.
The ureters join the kidneys to the bladder and if ectopic they drain right into a fallacious location. This results in the indicators you’ve got noticed equivalent to frequent urination and leaking that don’t reply to different remedy modalities. Once the prognosis is confirmed, this congenital defect requires surgical correction. Outcomes are often good and profitable.
As for the vaccines being given too early, sadly some breeders vaccinate early pondering they’re benefitting the pet, however the pet’s immune system must be mature sufficient to develop antibodies to the antigenic stimulus of a vaccine and that doesn’t usually occur till six weeks of age. If the pet had parasites like coccidia and a fecal confirmed antigens for different parasites as nicely, that’s regarding as to the breeder’s high quality however these can all be handled for. Good luck with the pet!
Dr. John de Jong owns and operates the Boston Mobile Veterinary Clinic. He could be reached at 781-899-9994.
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