Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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I was just thinking that that explained why the x-ray didn't pick it up.
It wasn't blocking any passage .... it was just sitting there in his stomach. The way I imagine those barium x-rays (which certainly could be wrong), they show if the barium is stopped by something.
Like .... if it had gone past the stomach and was in the intestine, a barium enema would stop at the rope blockage.
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I'm also thinking that the stomach, like the esophagus, might require a barium swallow, and the large intestine might be what is shown with a barium enema.
I'm pretty vague on this, though.
Obviously. LOL
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OK, really vague. I just re-read the links I posted earlier and I'm no smarter.
Edited by Connie Sutherland (05/30/2013 04:51 PM)
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The barium probably soaked into the rope, which was following the contours of the stomach. So it all looked normal.
I'd think perhaps there would have been residual barium retained in the stomach. But, sometimes these Xrays are pretty hard to interpret. I recall a shepherd who had eaten a towel -- he had lots of barium, over many weeks, we could never find it. Eventually there was an exploratory and a remarkable amount of fabric was removed.
He did fine though. Dogs are amazingly tough.
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Quote: Betty Landercasp
I recall a shepherd who had eaten a towel -- he had lots of barium, over many weeks, we could never find it. Eventually there was an exploratory and a remarkable amount of fabric was removed. ... He did fine though. Dogs are amazingly tough.
There were strips of towel in the intestine--both large bowel and small bowel. Most had jammed up at the junction of the large and small bowel (called the ileocecal junction).
I was doing large animal work at the time, he wasn't my case.
He came into the clinic for a work-up of occasional vomiting, occasional diarrhea. The towel had been eaten months earlier. He'd be fine, then he'd have a few bad days.
I sometimes think about that dog when you guys with shepherds are posting about occasional vomiting and diarrhea! Foreign bodies, maybe they are more common than we know.
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