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To introduce myself, I am a student in the Department of Animal Medicine of Agricultural University. At the end of

2018, when we were discussing pancreatitis, I used my dog to do a palpation demonstration and found that there was pain. There are many manifestations of pain, the most common of which are screaming and dodging.

So, we carried out 12 biochemical tests on him, and sure enough, amylase was higher than normal, but blood calcium was also higher than normal (since it was mentioned that he could not get rid of it).

Let me talk about my dog first. Pancreatitis and nursing will be introduced below. If you are anxious, you can turn to the following.

Name: Shi Minuo

Gender: Male

Age: 7 years old

Weight: 30 kg Description of

illness: a few days ago, I ate several pieces of air-dried beef. When I defecated, I found oily stool (oily stool). When I palpated, I found pain. There were no other symptoms.

Mino's examination confirmed the diagnosis

Draw blood for biochemical tests.

Lao Nuo, who is waiting for the results after drawing blood, let's make a patient registration. (Because I smoked it, I always came to my senior sister's place, so I sat on the stool honestly.)

Mino's treatment

Because there are no other obvious symptoms (the following will give you a systematic introduction), and the discovery is early (I should have just found a little edema), so Lao Nuo does not need to take medicine, pull home to eat something without fat (corn flour porridge …) It's normal to eat for two days.

But after this is the case of chronic pancreatitis, we must pay attention to eating low-fat food.

Give everybody below simple (say professional term less) and of the system introduce this disease.

Let's look at the pancreas resume first.

Location and function of the dog's pancreas:

Unlike humans, the dog's pancreas is located in the duodenal mesentery. In addition to secreting the familiar insulin and glucagon, it can also secrete pancreatic juice, including trypsin, pancreatic lipase, pancreatic amylase and other digestive enzymes

(The bareheaded photo of the dog pancreas in my thesis is a very rare good picture. (= ´ ω` =))

Here we want to talk about what is an enzyme: it is an active substance that decomposes and digests specific substances. For example, amylase decomposes and digests starch, and protein enzyme decomposes and digests protein.

Acute pancreatitis is also a disease with great mortality in human medicine, such as pancreatic cancer, which is called "the king of cancer".

Causes of Pancreatitis

There are 13 causes of pancreatitis.

Most of these are related to one reason.

That's eating! Oil! Big! Yes! Meat! About!

In the past two years, everyone's quality of life has improved. In 2020, everyone has entered the well-off level early (except my family), and then everyone's dog is getting better and better. On New Year's Day, even the dog is not spared.

Happy, give a piece of meat in the bowl. It's the

festival. Give me a piece of meat in the bowl. When

people eat, dogs ask for meat, give a piece of meat in the bowl,

usually the dog eats nothing, suddenly give a piece of meat and bones, or homemade dried meat slices (excess fat is not removed).

Also!

Summer is hot, give a popsicle (this is the last food stress), you think it's cool! What the hell is that

for a raw chicken skeleton?? Inflammation of the pancreas caused by direct trauma.

There is also one of the most easily overlooked causes that is often seen in books and clinics-secondary pancreatitis caused by hypercalcemia.

Dogs are omnivores, please be clear.

Dogs have evolved with human beings. Darwin's theory of evolution has been heard. Hundreds of years ago, dogs followed human beings. How could there be so much meat to eat hundreds of years ago? People can't eat meat and there is nothing for dogs. So! The son of a dog has evolved into a bastard! Food! Move! Thing! Cats are also carnivores. (Extracted from Nutritional Needs of Dogs and Cats, translated by Xia Zhaofei)

So everyone's dogs are generally eager to eat soft stool, right? Because the meat content is too high. But eating meat is not the main cause of pancreatitis. The main reason is because there is no processed fat in the meat! Fang! (I haven't heard of any cases of pancreatitis so far because people have adjusted their overall fat content.).

Intake of more fat → secretion of more fatty acids → creating a more acidic environment for the pancreas than usual → trypsinogen is activated prematurely Have you ever seen how much oil is on the meat in the bowl you

gave?

Symptoms of pancreatitis

Chronic pancreatitis is usually not very intense, such as the above-mentioned oily stool, diarrhea, and one or two regular vomiting.

Acute to the more severe:

severe vomiting and diarrhea (severe to crazy hematemesis have) hematochezia, black tarry stool, crawling sometimes pain, do not like to eat, jaundice may also occur.

Here, acute pancreatitis can be acute for the first time without past medical history, or it can be an acute attack of chronic pancreatitis.

Pancreatitis symptoms need to be identified

Let me give you two examples. A friend was playing with her dog in early August last year and found that she barked when she touched a part of her abdomen. After asking me, I asked her to check for pancreatitis. Do not listen, acute attack in early September, sent to Shanghai veterinary research, three days spent 3 w or no.

There was a bullfight who ate four pieces of stewed chicken during the Spring Festival and vomited blood.

My sister was not at home, and her mother had been vomiting for a few more bones at home. She vomited when she drank water. When she arrived at the hospital, she found that it was pancreatitis.

For example, abdominal pain is a more intuitive symptom of pancreatitis, and there will be vomiting.

Pancreatitis was confirmed by examination

In order to determine the degree of pancreatic edema or necrosis, doctors will recommend B-mode ultrasound, color Doppler ultrasound or higher-end equipment to have a more detailed understanding of the condition so as to formulate a detailed treatment plan.

The price of American Aldex Pancreatitis Test Strip

is 100-300 yuan.

Pancreatitis medication

At present, there is no specific drug for the treatment of pancreatitis, so it can only be symptomatic treatment at present. Parents don't have to care too much about what medicine they use, because pancreatitis is now basically a few prescriptions to reduce gastric acid secretion, reduce the burden on the intestines and stomach, antiemetics, hemostatic drugs, painkillers, drugs to improve pancreatic microcirculation, etc. I have a suggestion that is to add drugs to protect the liver.

Still have, pancreatitis breaks out to be fasted like small be being fasted water, abide by medical supervision scrupulously, do not feed drug hearsay, mortality rate is very high. If the folk prescription cures a serious illness, then this prescription is not a folk prescription, but a regular prescription (• ω •).

Finally: Prevention and Care of Pancreatitis

Daily precautions

For the little guys who haven't found pancreatitis yet, don't give them oily food. The fat content of dog food is generally about 18%, and the fat content of a mouthful of oily meat may be 70%. Regular dog food is good, do not feed extra food, snacks also choose low fat content to give less, do not have to give every day, who can eat potato chips every day? The one in Shanghai ate too many snacks.

For popsicles. Dogs don't need ice lollies or ice water. If they want to cool down, they can bear it as long as they can stay in a cool and ventilated place.

The food

for dogs should not be too cold. Cans should be taken out of the refrigerator at least until they are at room temperature. It is better to bite them in the microwave oven if possible.

Care for sick dogs

For dogs already suffering from pancreatitis, owners choose a high-protein, low-fat dog food for their dogs.

Homemade jerky should also be low-fat duck, chicken breast, rabbit meat, etc. Don't eat too much suddenly, and feed a small amount regularly.

Calcium supplements should not be taken indiscriminately. Although the calcium content of calcium tablets sold on the market is relatively low compared with liquid calcium, they should not be taken for a long time except for the growth and development stage of dogs, lactation of bitches, calcium deficiency stage of old age and disease needs.

Moreover, calcium is absorbed in proportion to phosphorus (only calcium supplementation and VD3 supplementation without phosphorus supplementation can not achieve the real purpose of calcium supplementation).

Now the calcium and phosphorus in the formula of regular imported dog food for puppies and adult dogs have reached the normal level of daily life, so dogs who eat imported dog food can not eat if there is no calcium deficiency.

The above is for reference

only

In the next issue, I may write about the adenomas that have flooded the screens of major hospitals in the circle of friends recently (or other hot spots).

The above is a personal experience, for reference only ~