3 days ago, went to Vet 1 for emergency blood in the urine treatment. Seldom has this problem for past months.
Abdominal palpation - the dog arches his back when the bladder area is palpated. No obvious signs of pain. X-rays show no bladder stones but an enlarged prostate.
Likely a benign prostate hyperplasia with infection --- blood in the urine. Urine test showed blood.
A change to a Prescription C/D diet. Neuter is advised.
I got an emailed image of a Roborovski with spiky hairs and advices on skin disease. it was much difficult to diagnose. The young lady brought him to toa payoh vets.
A big 1 cm wound behind left ear. Earlier a pet shop recommended coconut oil application, the lady accounted for the spiky hairs.
Best to clip bald and remove all contaminated hair and shampoo away the oil, I said. As there will be anaesthetic risk, the owner declined my advice. This species is the speediest of all. Hence anaesthesia is required to prevent clipper cuts.
Medication given abd if no recovery, will need to do clipping. the hamster is aggressive and had been aeparated from his sibling some weeks sgo as there was fierce fighting. So this wound could not be bite wounds but due to scratching.
The good boyfriend had googled youtube and found toa payoh vets ans sent an email to me. so that is how the nilleniak generation works
This 5-year-old Westie had skin disease starting from the backside since she was 3 years old. At least 3 vets were consulted but there was no cure. The dog had red spots around the neck and back. The whole lower body skin was thickened.
2982. Searching for an entropion veterinary surgeon for a Chow Chow
Tuesday July 26, 2016
The 2-year-old Chow Chow was abandoned. He could barely open his eyelids to see and would bang into objects. Thick pus crusted his eyes. The couple who adopted him brought him to see around 6 vets. After consultation, the vets said they did not do entropion surgery.
"You phoned the vets by alphabetical order?" I asked. "Toa Payoh Vets would be at the bottom of the list."
"We googled entropion vets" the wife said. "We did consult an eye specialist but we need to wait for many weeks for our turn."
The 26-kg Chow Chow was particularly nervous and would not sit still for examination. Sedation with Domitor + Ketamine IM at 0.3 + 0.3 ml IM sedated him a bit and a blood sample was taken for health screening before the operation next week. The dog was given the first vaccination as I doubt he had been re-vaccinated since he was thrown out to the streets till adopted by this couple.
Aug 8, 2016
Chow Chow could open his eyelids a bit after 10 days of antibiotics and is "more active" according to the happy couple.
"Why is there a red spot in his left eye?" the wife asked, after the entropion surgery. "It is a big corneal growth of around 4 mm across, due to the past 3 years of irritation by inrolled eyelashes and was present before the surgery," I said. I got some images to prove it but these were not necessary. The dog's eyes were shut tight for the past 3 years as the upper and lower eyelids rolled into the cornea 180 degrees and the eye pain was excruciating.
Case 1. TWO VIDEOS. An adopted 3-year-old Chow Chow has entropion. Pre-operation examination. A severe case of entropion in the Chow Chow. The dog has bacteria in the blood due to chronic eye infections. After 10-14 days of antibiotics, the dog can open his inward-rolling eyelids a bit more. However, this is temporary. A permanent solution is surgery to roll out the eyelids so that the dog has no eyelashes inwardly poking the cornea as in the present case of entropion.
Two pre-op videos
Post-op video one hour after surgery
UPDATE IN JULY 16, 2019
The owner is very satisfied with the outcome of the entropion surgery. I had not seen him as he goes to the vet clinic near his residence. However, he wanted a second opinion on the big swollen right hind knee of his Chow Chow who fell from the stairs. Hence I was able to find out the outcome of my entropion surgery 3 years ago and took the following image:
