Anybody ever hear of a very rapid onset of bleeding in a dog? My Giant has developed a strange "rash" and seems to be bleeding with no indication of it stopping.
They did a couple of small skin biopsies that havent quit seeping at now over 10 hours. He was given 2 approx. 3cc injections of K and developed a hematoma the size of a softball in the area where the injections were given.
My Vet and I are both stumped.
If you can't be a Good Example,then You'll just have to Serve as a Horrible Warning. Catherine Aird.
Richard, Sorry to hear about your dog. Are there any other signs? I recently read up on Canine Erhlichiosis, transmitted by the brown dog tick, and this can cause bleeding.
Did the vet do a blood test, urine test?
Research the Merck Vet Manual and call around to other vets for opinions. Good Luck and keep us posted.
He is being tested for Tick fevers, and von Willbrand, Cocci, and anything else they can think of. He has been injured so he hasn't been any where. We have never had a Tick here at the house. The weird thing is this seems to have come up literally over night. Yesterday there was no sign of any type of rash on him at all and he hits the dog door so hard that he has broken 3 of them. If he was having a similar bleeding problem he should have huge hematomas where he bumps the door and from playing with the BRT. There does seem to be a similar spot on the BRT on the inside of one of her thighs, but none of the other problems.
The only things that have changed is the addition of a ver small amount of Grand Flex to his food, he has had that before with no problem, and we started a new bag of food, but the same thing he has been eating.
If you can't be a Good Example,then You'll just have to Serve as a Horrible Warning. Catherine Aird.
Only thing that comes immediately to mind is warfarin. It's a common rat poison. In people, they call it Coumadin and use it as a blood thinner and anti-coagulant.
Lots of possiblities come to mind. Too many. Spider bite, reaction to the Glucosamine and Chondroitin sulfate (they can increase clotting time- but usually nowhere near that much), AutoImmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA), Dessiminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC- common after heat stroke and snake bites), Liver Disease, Hepatitis, Hemangiosarcoma, snake bite, VWD, Lupus, Toxins, ingestion of Onions or Garlic, any of the tick diseases. Sigh, can you tell I spent too many years at an emergency clinic?
Anyway- most of them are actually results of an insult to the body- the bleeding isn't the real problem. And, a lot of tests will come back negative- making you feel like you've wasted money. You haven't. A negative test usually means you've cut the possibilities down. And unfortunately with something like this, most of the time you end up getting an answer by the process of elimination.
Email me at home, I have more questions for you. Sorry I didn't see your post earlier.
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