Kidney Failure in Dogs – What You Should Know About Kidney Failure in Dogs
Kidney failure in dogs can be a devastating experience both for you and your furry friends. The thought of possibly losing your beloved pet is enough to make you frustrated and depressed. But how can you find out if your dog has a failing kidney, and what are the ways of treating this chronic illness?
Symptoms
Kidney failure is a common disease not only in dogs, but in cats as well. It mostly occurs in aging animals. Early signs may be an increase in water consumption, and an increase in urine production. However, most animals don’t show these symptoms – not until 70% to 75% of their kidney function has failed. For more advanced kidney problems, your dog may show loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting, ulcers in the mouth, and a very bad breath.
Treatments of Dog Kidney Problems
For pet owners, kidney failure in dogs is a serious condition. With the proper treatment and care, you can help your dog lengthen its life for a longer time.
Dogs’ kidneys may also be ‘restarted’ through intravenous fluids to flush out the kidneys. Diuresis, as this process is called, may help to make the kidney cells function once more. If there would be enough kidney cells to function, they can help waste removal from the body again. Electrolytes, dextrose and potassium may also help. Proper nutrition and high-quality food are used during dieresis to control diarrhea and vomiting.
Diuresis may resume kidney functions for a few weeks to a few years, or they may function again, but fail as soon as the treatment ceases. There’s also the possibility of kidney functions not returning anymore.
Animals with kidney problems usually undergo a low-protein, low-sodium and low-phosphorus diet. This diet reduces mineral deposits in the kidneys, and generates less nitrogenous excesses, which can cause vomiting at high levels. Low-protein diets mean a decrease of workload on the kidneys. In addition, phosphorus is filtered out of the body through the kidneys, so a low-phosphorus diet can help a lot. A high level of phosphorus in the body leads to poor appetite, so certain medications which help bind phosphates inside the intestines can also help your dog.
Fluids should be continuously given subcutaneously (under the skin.) This process helps the kidney to restart itself, and should be done once a day or once a week. The frequency depends on the degree of the kidney failure.
Make use of medicines and drugs to stimulate the bone marrow so that it would give out new red blood cells to your dog’s body. Since the kidneys manufacture erythropoietin, that hormone stimulates the production of red blood cells through the bone marrow. Most dogs with kidney failure have anemia because this hormone isn’t being produced by the kidney, thereby it cannot stimulate the bone marrow, as well. There are some artificial or synthetic forms of erythropoietin which may mimic the real hormone to help produce red blood cells. However, some dogs may consider this synthetic hormone as a foreign body and make antibodies to battle it.
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MOBILE AL-Parents who don’t send their kids to school had to answer to a judge.
Forty families are on the truancy docket at Mobile’s Government Plaza. Many of their children have missed dozens of unexcused days from school and juvenile Judge Edmond Naman wants to know why.
Judge Naman went off after hearing that not only did Kaler Terrell’s 1st grader miss too many days, this was his first year ever enrolled in school. Now, the 8-year old will have to repeat 1st grade! (Check out the video to hear what Naman said to the mother)
Terrell has reportedly been homeless and has some mental health issues that the court discovered after the outburst. Naman sentences Terrell to 2 years of probation and says he’s embarrassed and didn’t mean to fuss at her. He just wished that the court had known about her case sooner. “When we dug deeper and had people talk to her, we’re gonna be able to address it but it was just really shocking to me and I reacted humanly. I’ll try not to do that in the future.”
13 other parents didn’t even bother to show up for court. Warrants have been issued for arrests.
BamaBob Says:
Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:39 am
How did they magically discover the womans mental and physical limitations immediately after the judge went off in an open court?
As soon as it was discovered that the child had not even been registered in school until the age of 8 years, red flags should have been flying all around the case. Common sense would suggest that there were elements to this truancy out of the norm and should be addressed promptly.
Spouting off in court without a full understanding of any case, is highly unprofessional and should be discouraged. Would such a reaction be tolerated, if this had been a criminal case and the judge was openly condemning the defendant before the trial had even begun? I dont think so…
bobcat Says:
Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:26 am
I just called the Juvenile Court and spoke with Judge Namans secretary and she said that the Judge reviews every case that comes before him and goes by what the folders contain. In this case the Court was unaware of any mental issues and after finding out the circumstances he apologized for fussing at her because he would have handled it differently had he been aware of her condition. The court is referred to the court system in general and while standing before the Judge, one is presenting to the court. That does not suggest the Judge is the court as a whole.
As I stated earlier, there were other departments that obviously failed in this case before it got in the hands of the Judge.
Playing with semantics? I say not. Stating the facts? Clearly!
Not only is Judge Naman a respectable Judge as this case proves, he is also a gentleman of the court system. That is my honest and unpersuasive opinion.
BamaBob Says:
Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:36 am
These case do not just magically appear in court. It starts with school notifications, counseling sessions and escalates from that point. If the court did not bother to look into this case prior to the hearing, then that goes back on the court and all those case workers that let this one fall through the cracks.
BamaBob Says:
Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:31 am
You are playing around with semantics. The judge is the court.
Naman sentences Terrell to 2 years of probation and says hes embarrassed and didnt mean to fuss at her. He just wished that the court had known about her case sooner.
bobcat Says:
Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:25 am
The article Im reading clearly states that the COURT discovered the mental issue afterwards. The court reference is to include information that had been presented to the court.
Not that the Judge overlooked the issue.
Thats what is says and thats what it means.
BamaBob Says:
Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:16 am
Judges are supposed to be objective purveyors of the law. This isnt an audition for some syndicated judge show where rants are encouraged.
In the above referenced article it clearly says the judge did not know all the circumstances of the case before his outburst. He then goes on to apologize and express his embarrassment at his overreaction.
This rather small incident points to a much larger problem in the chain of command. Red flags should have gone up as soon as the woman registered the child for school, questions should have been asked and a proper solutions examined.
The only point of this whole program is to save the children. It is not about bean counters crunching numbers and shifting off case files to the court so that someone can be publicly lashed by an angry mob or a loose cannon judge!
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