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Fatal? I am taking Jazz to get bloodwork done. She's been blah for a few days ...not eating but drinking and peeing...so today i notice the whites of her eyes are bloodshot/yellow and so is the skin in her ears...so off to the vet who said Lepto or some other issue causing the jaundice...
It is caused by bacteria called spirochete (sp?). It is spread from the urine of an infected animal..rats, cattle , sheep and other wild animals. Would your dog have come in contact with a water supply or food source that could have been contaminated?
Problem here...humans can get sick from this as well...so be very careful in clean-up and the handling of the dog...IF that is what he has.
Leptospirosis is caused by the genusLeptospira bacteria, which are in the FamilySpirochaetales. It is most commonly transmitted to dogs by exposure to rat urine or other urine from infected animals and is NOT very common. When it does occur it is serious and needs to be immediately treated with antibiotics and other supportive care.
I hope your dog is better soon. The CDC has excellent inforomation about leptospirosis in pets.
After 500. in tests blood/urine I am home now with antibiotics and sub fluids that I will give her 2x's a day. The urine test to determine if it is lepto is another couple hundred...I'll go the home care for now. We live in the city...we don't have wildlife.
It is most commonly transmitted to dogs by exposure to rat urine or other urine from infected animals and is NOT very common.
This has always intrigued me a bit.
We moved here from the other side of the Atlantic - lepto, while not something you ran into daily or weekly, was common enough that it would be one of the first things vets checked for and in rescue work it wasn't at all uncommon, especially in pups. On the other hand, I doubt if any of my vets had ever, in their entire careers, seen a case of distemper. Even folks who would cut out or reduce frequency of vaccines, would not with the lepto as the vaccine did not last longer than 10-12 months and no life-long immunity was ever established. Rat urine in standing water was the main transmitter - allowing dogs to drink from puddles just was not a good idea.
I looked on the CDC site but was looking for an incidence map - i.e. does it happen more often in one part of the country than another, is there an urban/rural divide? Just idle curiosity.
maybe its just me and my wishful thinking....but she did eat and she hasn't eaten for a few days...a tablespoon of Hills rx diet - A/D --high calorie stuff the vets assist gave me a can of...she barked at the mailman and drank some water and went outside with me to pee...could be just cause I pushed 10ml of fluids a little while ago? whatever
10 ml of fluid won't make much of a difference unless your dog is a 2 pound minimicro dog. But she could also have run-of-the-mill hepatitis. I would strongly suggest that you bite the bullet and have the blood/urine tests for both lepto AND hepatitis done, so you know what you're dealing with, because the treatments are VERY different.
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