I don't usually post to this list but have lurked for over two years now.
I am going through my first illness and frankly, I'm confused and scared.
On 5/29 my 2 year old female, Sweetie began to vomit.  She vomited 3 times
a white think liquid and she had watery diarrhea, then it turned to a brown
mucosy diarrhea.  We rushed her to the emergency vet and she had stopped
vomiting and seemed alert.  Of course now I know that was because of all
the new smells to check out.  They found nothing wrong and sent us home.  I
continued to watch her over Sunday and Monday (memorial day) and she was
not eating and at this point was only pooping about 3-4 times in a 24 hour
period.  Tuesday morning I took her to my regular vet, they did blood work.
I have the results and don't know how much to post but the vet said she was
particularly worried about the liver enzymes and white blood count.
 
RBC          13.9 (H)
HGB          21.9 (H)
PCV          68   (H)
MCV          49   (L)
MCM          15.8 (L)
 
Monocytes     5   (H)
Eosinophilis 13   (H)
SGPT (ALT)  700   (H)
Cholesterol 340   (H)
Phosphorus    2.0 (L)
Glucose      20   (L)
 
They talked to Dr. Rosenthal in NY and called today with the thought it
'might' be ECE or eosinophilic gastro enteritis.  She have suggest I
continue the meds, flaygl, amoxi and pepto twice a day for two weeks.  Then
wean her off of those and see how she does.  If there is a recurrence we
will try changing her foods, as it could be an allergy.  But the thing that
gets me is the vet said the only way to confirm for sure it is eosinophilic
gastro enteritis is a biopsy ($500).  My quesitons, and thanks for reading
this far, are, is that the only way to confirm it.  Is it necessary to
confirm it if we can rule out other things, allergies, etc.  Also, if it is
eosinophilic gastro enteritis what am I looking at for a future?  The vet
said nothing and my search on the FML archives don't give me much.  I'm I
looking at meds long term, short term, surgery, death?  I have no clue.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Oh, I have 3 others who are showing
no symptoms.
 
Thank you for any help anyone can offer.
 
Brenda P
[Posted in FML issue 2700]