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she is in the hospital - being monitor. Right now they are giving her high in fibre food so to encourage bowel movements more. I went to visit her last night and gave some mash pumpkin to add on to her fiber diet. She was looking rather tired but at ease when she saw me. The vet and nurses singing praises on how sweet she is and letting them tend to her in fact laying down for them to scan her. only if they know how cheeky she is!! So we are all hoping for some good result today - maybe pooping with the metal out - latest by end of today. It happened since sat morning but she wasn't given food till yesterday, so basically her natural poo taking its time to come out.. finger cross that the metal comes out smoothly.. I am feeling so anxious and wanting to throw up all the time! Missing her so much

hi all, I've received a call from the vet and got an update about Lexi. the metal thingy has moved down to her smaller intestines and right now they are monitoring her and would be giving her the next scan at noon to see if it has move down further. I have had a chat with the vet asking if I can bring her back instead to monitor her myself till she passes her tool as I know Lexie will be much comfortable doing it when at the familiar surrounding. vet highly recommend having Lexie being hospitalised so they can monitor her full time - also to scan / xray her every 4-6 hours till she passes her tool which can be next morning. In any emergency, they will be able to take care of it right away. Vet wants to monitor her to at least tomorrow morning. I did ask if I can bring her back to monitor her and then send her back with the scannings scheduled. They said that they couldn't book the scanner just for us as everyone would be using it and the next time if I come in for scanning I might be waiting for couple of hours depending on emergency waiting list before it is free up for us. And also it would be consider as a check in patient again. So we couldn't come into a conclusion as to what to do - she said that we should re-group after the next scan to see how Lexie go. I am a bit lost as to what to do here. I somehow know if reaches the time, Lexie might hold her poo so having her in familiar surrounding would hasten her to do it. But I do not want my decision to cause her any further harm. Also do not understand why is it that I am being strongly recommend not to do so when she is also being monitor by them anyway. Sorry if the above blurp seems like everywhere, it shows how my feelings are at the moment.

How much would you give that to a dog of 5kg?

vet said if the object has gone down to intestine by tomorrow morning then no point for the endoscopy or surgery, and they will have to wait it out by monitoring her - having her hospitalised with them. I would prefer to bring her home and bring her back to scan daily till she really pass the stool out with the metal.

36 hours and he poop out the screw.. that is such a relief! Now I wish I've read (or know) this earlier and that I have Lexie right now with me to put her on the Metamucil! I will see how we go with Lexie tomorrow. Vet did said that if it is in the stomach, they will try to take it out however if it's hard to do so, they will consider surgery. But if goes down to intestine already, then will monitor. I am so tempted to wait it out for her to pass it if they couldn't retrieve it. I mean she isn't having any problem plus, we will be monitoring her, as well as bringing her back daily to the vet to scan for that metal. I might consider having her with metamucil with food for a day after the endoscopy if the object still in the stomach. At least I will give it a go for 24 hours and see if it goes down with her naturally. I will bring her back to vet of course to scan again to see how it goes. I believe if either way things turn bad, I wouldn't be able to avoid surgery, however at least we tried the natural way.

Hi all, Unfortunately, my little girl Lexie ... has decided to swallow foreign object. We were out and so unfortunate for her to be able to grab hold of my hair pin (she usually don't really care about those stuff) and got herself chewing over it, then swallowed half of the stuff together with the sharp spiral spring with two pokey ends. We found out when we reached home today seeing half of the hair pin lying on the floor. We took her to SASH right away (believe to have ingested the stuff an hour earlier) as emergency. X-ray confirmed all is in her stomach. What a small girl to be able to ingest all the stuff We left her with the vet performing endoscopy on her to try to remove the foreign object. However, after few attempts, the vet was able to removed everything except for the sharp spiral spring (which is our main concern). Now she needs to go through a second attempt tomorrow morning. If the sharp spiral is still lodge in her stomach, then they will attempt to get it out, and if that fail too, they will perform surgery on her to remove it. If, the spiral descent down to her intestines, that means they would have to monitor her until it came out naturally. That's the story. I am very anxious and has been very upset with myself since morning. :( :( I think I'm gonna throw up. Now the cost. Fortunately, Lexie has been with Petplan since the age of 12 weeks old - or a little bit more. She is a little over a year old now. Vet told me an estimated of $6000 in the worst case scenario (which requires the surgery). So I am looking at $3400-$6000. I would like to know if anyone has successfully claim such incident from Pet Plan Insurance? I couldn't find anywhere if Pet Plan covers this incident, I remember reading it somewhere that they do. I would like to ask here before I contact them as everything is recorded over there. Any ideas would be appreciated.

thanks @persephone she is not completely heal from her symptom yet but would contact them soon

has anyone used The herb Cats Claw (Uncaria Tomentosa) with good results?

thanks for the info. what a weird name but I've Google it and seems to be very good for human too... Will ask around about it..

Lexie is diagnosed with Ulcerative eosinophilic stomatitis... She is given antibiotic & prednisolone for few weeks.. Just want to know if any owner had their dogs diagnosed with Ulcerative eosinophilic stomatitis? Does manuka honey and apple cider vinegar help?

Ulcerative eosinophilic stomatitis

biopsy came back with Eosinophilic Granuloma.. guess that is why she was having the tonsillitis issues too.. given antibiotic and prednisolone for a few weeks..

went to SASH but didn't know they decided to check her in to perform the procedure straight away ! to biopsy or maybe removing the tonsil if not too inflamed. So I was charged for the consultation fee & blood test (which I requested) & referral fee for a whopping... $500 I guess luckily I got pet insurance.. now in the process of sending the information of my previous bills to them before claiming for SASH one.. So i didn't fast her. Going back tonight to check her in.. and she will be staying for the night for her procedure tomorrow... I am so so worry..

the best way to test is to pluck some of the ticks (different ones ) and drop on the different types of essential oil to see which one died first? I read somewhere in a blog someone did just that.. testing on a few and somehow Palo Santo Essential Oil killed the tick within minutes and their ticks hate the scent.. Of course they use the higher grade essential oil.. then again that blog is US based... :)

I read it somewhere that it says to apply only on one spot to avoid pets licking on them.. I guess you can spread it all over if you know they can't reach it on the first 48 hours till it dry up and working into their body

I was just about to suggest going to SAH. They took my Cavaliers tonsils out when she was 6 as they were affecting her breathing. It turns out they were pre cancerous so it was o good idea for us to have the op done. She was fine afterwards when you firstly got in SASH, did they make another appointment to put your cav under anaesthetic for the op or you had to go through few visits with medications prescribed before going through it? would like to know your experience. Lexie was put under anaesthetic last month and not sure if its good idea for another one so soon? She is turning 1 year old this month. And has been in and out of antibiotics for multiple times in her puppyhood!!!

I have booked an appointment with one of the vet in SASH, he is only available next Tues. A little bit too long wait for us but ..... had too.. hopefully will know what to do next.

hi all some update.. the vet finally refer me to SASH in NSW. will be booking for an appointment soon.

I find moving house to a new environment, we would need to re-train (keep an eye like a hawk) for 2-4 weeks before letting them roam freely without supervision. Regardless the age. Somehow they need to associate the new house is their new den! I moved house recently and that was what I did. After about 2 weeks, they got the idea that this is their new home...

thanks JulesP! somehow that makes me feel a bit better... I was pretty frustrated with the progress it's going with the vet. These revisits costs are piling up on me and I just hope she will just refer me to a specialist and we can move forward. I found one vet nearby, might be calling in on Monday to check how we go about it, if can get an appt.

Yes I'm tempted to seek another vet's advice but am not sure how our pet insurance will be able to let us claim from both sides. Might give pet plan a call on Monday before doing it. It's just tablets. Metrogyl quarter tablet twice daily & anti robe twice daily.

I need to pressure the vet to refer to specialist. I'm quite annoyed how she kept putting her on antibiotics since she is having some good result. So very frustrating.

I'm at chatswood, nsw. Would have to find out the vets that specialist in Greyhounds nearby me soon

Do you think giving Manuka Honey UMF20 and Apple Cider Vinegar will help her? Both the tonsils & heathwise..

Is that safe while they are so infected though? routinely done with Greyhounds, otherwise the animal remains chronically sick. Id give the AB's a week and have the dog booked in to have them removed. other than the inflamed, swollen & pus tonsils, she is eating and active as usual.. No fever except for her gagging reflex when she yawns.. I am thinking in this case, she is not chronically ill hence the vet is making sure she heals from it before going forward to remove it?