My dog has discitis caused by cystitis – whats the best way to cure her – she is on Rhimadyl and anti biotics?
As your vet has probably told you, you may be looking at long-term treatment. Is it only the discs that are involved, or are the vertebrae (bones in the spine) involved as well?
When they put her on antibiotics, did they take any samples to work out what bacteria are present and what antibiotics will work? This is the ideal approach, as it gives the treatment the best chance of working. In addition to the antibiotics and rimadyl (which as you probably know, is for pain relief). It can have some problems as the person above said, but these are actually more commonly associated with the stomach (due to ulceration) than with the kidneys. As long as she is not on a high dose for a long time, and you're always giving it with food, she should be fine.
She should also have her activity greatly restricted- often it is recommended that the dog should be kept in a cage or small pen early on. In some cases, it may be necessary to do surgery, as the spinal cord can be compressed by the damaged tissue.
I hope that she makes a full and rapid recovery.
I wish i had the answer. I will tell you one thing get her on another med for pain rimadyl should be band to many bad side effects very hard on kidneys ask your vet for deramaxx it is safer. now your asking here on line if you don't like what your vet has told you get another vet you could call a few and see what they have to say.
Here try asking there see what they say.
http://dog.justanswer.com/dog-health
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read about rimadly on line and a friend that rescues animals told me the dangers of that drug.
http://www.pets.ca/encyclopedia/cystitis.htm
As your vet has probably told you, you may be looking at long-term treatment. Is it only the discs that are involved, or are the vertebrae (bones in the spine) involved as well?
When they put her on antibiotics, did they take any samples to work out what bacteria are present and what antibiotics will work? This is the ideal approach, as it gives the treatment the best chance of working. In addition to the antibiotics and rimadyl (which as you probably know, is for pain relief). It can have some problems as the person above said, but these are actually more commonly associated with the stomach (due to ulceration) than with the kidneys. As long as she is not on a high dose for a long time, and you're always giving it with food, she should be fine.
She should also have her activity greatly restricted- often it is recommended that the dog should be kept in a cage or small pen early on. In some cases, it may be necessary to do surgery, as the spinal cord can be compressed by the damaged tissue.
I hope that she makes a full and rapid recovery.
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Veterinary nurse, soon-to-graduate veterinary student
This excerpt was taken from a vet report. Ten dogs suffering from discospondylitis were treated by percutaneous discectomy and local and systemic antibiotic therapy. With fluoroscopic guidance, a cylinder 5 mm in diameter was removed from the centre of the intervertebral space, yielding a fenestration and decompressing the disc without producing any spinal instability. The causative bacteria were identified in nine of the 10 biopsy specimens, but in only three urine cultures and four blood cultures. In two cases, the antibiotics used initially had to be changed owing to the organisms' antibiotic resistance. The clinical signs of the dogs improved markedly after two to nine days (mean 4.2 days) and had resolved completely after five to 14 days (mean 9.1 days). In all the cases the disease could be classified histologically as either acute or chronic, and the disease was classified as chronic in one dog. No side effects were observed.
PMID: 15689036 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
So it seems checking the urine was not necessarily effective.
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