{"id":434,"date":"2018-03-05T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T08:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.veterinario-javea.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2018-03-05T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T09:00:01","slug":"post-marzo-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veterinario-javea.com\/en\/post-marzo-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"POST MARCH 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dear followers Mininos&Kaninos<\/p>\n

OF HYENAS, MAGIC CAVES AND CAR THERAPY<\/p>\n

In other countries the hyenas laugh, here the seagulls laugh. This squeak, which seems like a laugh many times, is one of the most pleasant sounds in this area. Without beginning to talk about the sound of small waves on the beach. Generally in the summer, at least myself, I perceive the sounds differently. I don\u00b4t know if it’s the heat, the gentle breeze or something else, but the sounds are softer.<\/p>\n

Today is a apocalypse day. It is raining cats and dogs, you can not even see the Montg\u00f3, the beautiful mountain that protects our town. Some say that in profile it looks like an elephant, and it is true. It also contains a magical cave at 375 meters high. It dates from 2000-3000 a.d.C and turns out to be a burial chamber. It contains cave paintings representing cattle. It should be declared a world heritage place.<\/p>\n

I wish it was Saturday today and we did \u00a0not have to leave the house, but it’s Friday and the agenda is full.<\/p>\n

And the rain passed and so did\u00a0 the gray days, \u00a0and the sun has risen again, like so many other times. After the storm, calm always comes.<\/p>\n

In this weeks there\u00a0 is an avalanche of puppies, no calm at all. A joy for the house and I feel so happy spoiling them here with bits of wiener, giving them the prize when they bark and consenting almost everything, because here they are in absolute paradise, they are in their aunt’s house.\u00a0 Here I spoil, at home they educate ; ). Maybe this are redirected action, since my mother does this with my daughter, for something she is the grandmother and I have to say that my daughter loves her with madness.<\/p>\n

This March there is nothing new going on, we continue on the run of decompensation of the chronically ill, otitis, skin conditions, endocrine diseases (hormonal) etc … proud of having stablized some of them, regarding other\u00b4s we weren\u00b4t that lucky.<\/p>\n

Today I want to talk about Mila, Shar Pei rescued by my friend Steph. She never wants to see me, there is no chance of making her love me.\u00a0 Nothing works: saussages, nice words, stroking. She always had problems with the skin, but in the last monthss he was accentuating too much, so we decided to do a serology to see if he had been bitten by the damn mosquito of Leishmaniosis, with such bad luck that positive was a big one along with a proteinogram of the most decompensated.<\/p>\n

We started treatment, but Mila had bad luck and her stomach twisted a few weeks later. No, I don\u00b4t think it was due to the treatment, or at least in my life as a vet I had much dogs in leishmaniose treatment, but none of them with stomach torsi\u00f3n after the treatment.\u00a0 But who knows. She was taken to emergency to my Nexo colleagues . She is a strong little soul, she is harder than iron. I remember like it happened yesterday, it was a Saturday, 20:00, when Steph sent me a message (record the words of the message in your memory):<\/p>\n

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Steph: “Nina, Mila is weird. Her belly seems wollen and she is trying to vomit without stopping, but nothing comes out. Do I have to worry?<\/p>\n

Nina: “Right now you’re calling emergency. Victor i son duty. I warn them, too. It is a veterinary emergency that must be attended to as soon as possible “<\/p>\n

Steph: “ok.”<\/p>\n

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I did not know what was happening, but if I knew that this was a emergency, it should be attended as soon as possible by a veterinarian.<\/p>\n

20 minutes later they were in Denia, and 20 minutes later the diagnosis was made: twisting of the stomach and spleen and without waiting time she was entering the surgery room.<\/p>\n

Stomach torsion (with or without spleen) is life threatening. Many of the affected animals (mainly those of deep chest such as the Doberman) can evolve not favorably. We, the personas, \u00a0have a fairly fixed stomach inside the abdomen, but the dog has it much looser. If we imagine a balloon inflated with water and food (because it often happens after having eaten water \/ food and have done an exercise) we connect a tube to the right (which would represent the exit to the duodenum (small intestine) and one to the left ( that would represent the exit to the esophagus.) Now we take each tube with our hands and suspend the balloon in the air.If we would start jumping and \u00a0holding the balloon in this way, the moment may come when that balloon rotates around its own axis.<\/p>\n

Within the tissues there are many blood vessels that carry blood to organs. If the tubes are turned, this blood flow will be compromised and will not reach the stomach tissue, nor the intestine. Therefore, this tissue is going to die shortly. We say that it it will necrose. We appreciate it inside the surgery for having a dark to black appearance.<\/p>\n

The recovery depends a lot on the percentage of damaged tissue and also of the the animal’s capacity to re-heal these parts.<\/p>\n

There are enough animals that despite passing a surgery will not survive.\u00a0 The same night or some days later.<\/p>\n

Important to keep in mind, this are and can be symptoms:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Unsuccessful vomiting<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Swallow water \/ drink and vomit it right away<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Gut looks bloated<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 It is a deep-seated dog in addition<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is always advisable to seek veterinary help immediately. If it turns out to be after a simple gastritis or a stomach dilatation which doesn\u00b4t need surgery (some in fact need, it depends) we can be more than happy.<\/p>\n

Our recommendation for any dog \u200b\u200bis:<\/p>\n