Hi Carol, I just recently underwent a horrendous experience with Disney (my Golden). He came down with Babesia a tick borne illness that is suspected to also be transmittable by mosquitos. My only clue was he was not quite himself. I took him to the vet and his temp. was 105�. Disney's sister who lives 2 hours south of me had come down with Ehrlichia, another tick disease 2 weeks prior. These are both house dogs on Frontline. I had already done a ton of research on the tick diseases for his sister's owner so that was what I came in asking my vet to test for. Antibodies for Ehrlichia can take 30-45 days to show up so you can get a false negative. I requested a PCR test to find the DNA of ehrlichia to be on the safe side. Then when all came back negative (he'd been on Doxy for a few days) I asked the vet to test for Babesia, and that was what he had. Babesia is non responsive to Doxycycline and can only be treated with Imidocarb (brand name Imizol made by Schlering-Plough). It is a nasty shot that burns at the site of injection, causes severe drooling, muscle tremors, vomiting and diarrhea. It also formed a capsule in his muscle tissue that got to the size of a baseball was drained to golf ball size and after a month had to be surgically removed. Meanwhile, his sister who was being treated for the ehrlichia with doxy was not getting much better, she was on quite a low dose and only once a day. My vet agreed with all of the literature I had brought about new protocols in treatment had begun treating Disney more agressively that his sister was ciurrently being treated. Here is some further info.
http://www.srv.net/~cdm/Dale/ehrlichia.html http://www.vetinfo.com/derlick.html http://www.comvet.com/html/ehrlichiosis.html http://www.comvet.com/html/babesiosis.html Good luck, Terrie Carol Richards wrote: > Dinah has been sleeping more than usual, not following me from room to room, > just staying on her Wally Bed. I took her to the vet today, and her > temperature was up. The vet ran blood tests, and her red cell count was 43%, > up from 35% in June. Her platelets were also very high, both by hand count > and computer. The vet does understand about platelets in Cavaliers. > > She has run tic titers and is sending them to UT Vet School. She has started > her on Doxycycline, assuming this is a tic borne disease. She wants to get > her anemia under control ASAP. She had baby red blood cells on the slide, > too, so she is trying to compensate for this. She also ran a urinalysis, > which was fine. > > Does anyone have any experience with tic borne diseases or have any other > thoughts on this? I use Frontline faithfully each month, and have never > found a tic on Dinah, but I'm sure it's possible that she had one. > > Carol Richards > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.geocities.com/carolscavaliers/ > <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/carolscavaliers/";>Carol's Cavaliers</A> > "My little dog, a heartbeat at my feet." > Edith Wharton > > ========================================================= > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL > to start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author. ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
