Email received from the Philippines on September 24, 2015
Hi.
My dog Klaus was diagnosed yesterday to have distemper. I was so sad and I could not think of anything. After I knew that, I keep on browsing the internet to look for a possible cure. I found your article and I will give it a try. I will go tomorrow in Vets in Practice to avail the serums needed for Klaus. He is still not yet having seizures so I am guessing that this is an early stage(hopefully). I am really sad and confused but I need to be strong for Klaus. Hopefully you can give me an advised of the best thing to do.
I have attached the pics of Klaus for your reference.
Thank you.
Pam
After an exchange of emails, I received this email on Nov. 9:
Hello Ed,
I hope you are keeping well.
Here’s the latest pictures and videos of my dog(Klaus) who suffered distemper. With all the luck and the Dr. SEARS Serum, he is getting better now. The Pendragon Vet Hospital helped him a lot also.
I also want to thank you with your advice and recommendations.
Dr. Sears spent 40 years as a practicing veterinarian in Lancaster, California, and he dealt with many other diseases besides canine distemper. Here are notes from him on what he found worked against these other disease.
Note: What follows are detailed notes intended for the benefit of other veterinarians. They include specific treatment protocols and often pictures that demonstrate techniques. Because of this, you will find pictures of sick and injured animals throughout these documents. In the case of herpes or fading puppy syndrome, autopsy photos of puppies — which is essential in the diagnosing of the disease — are included. If you would be distressed at seeing such pictures, it is recommended that you not download these files.– Ed Bond
“As fate would have it and as we all very well know, distemper is a cruel and many times deceiving disease. Such was the case with Millie. Millie crossed the Rainbow Bridge today. After making what for all practical purposes was a full recovery and after having gone 14 days post treatment with no symptoms, the neurological aspect of the virus reared its ugly head and it was simply more than she could overcome. I want to thank Ed for always being there with words of encouragement and for his endless support and dedication in helping get the word out that there is hope. I would also like to thank Dr H. for his help in giving verbal guidance to my vet with Millie’s initial treatment and lastly to Dr. S. for being willing to go “outside the box”. Your compassion is greatly appreciated. Even though Millie’s journey didn’t have the outcome we had all wanted, I have no doubt that under the right circumstances, this treatment is a means of survival for many dogs who would otherwise not have a chance and I would not hesitate to do it over again if the need arose. Please, to anyone reading this, if your vet even remotely suspects your dog has distemper, ask him/her to administer the NDV vaccine while waiting for lab results. Timing is so crucial in catching the virus before neurological systems occur. If treated prior to it breaking the blood brain barrier, the chances of survival are very good. Again, thank you to everyone who has silently been following Mille’s story and saying prayers. My vet and I learned a lot thru this little angel and I know it is thru this knowledge gained and with her loss, we will be able to save many lives in the future.”
Mary Randolph
Millie, three days prior to the onset of the seizures.Millie, a rat terrier in East Texas.
Here’s Mary’s account of Millie’s case, as received on Aug. 31, 2011:
I want to start out by thanking my vet and his wonderful staff. If it weren’t for him being willing to go out on that limb and try something he had never heard of before, I know Millie would have become just another casualty of this horrible disease. 7/25: Millie (12 week old Rat Terrier) brought into the pound and given a 7/1 vaccination. 7/30: Adopted and brought home to East Texas with no apparent symptoms of any illness whatsoever. She is active and alert with typical puppy behavior. Got home and took temp. just for safe measures, 101.4. Appetite off and on. 8/1: First trip to the vet for checkup. Everything checks out good. Usual puppy parasites present. Received another vaccination with worm treatment. 8/3: Wet sounding cough develops. 8/5: trip to the vet for cough. Vet says worst case scenario is distemper. Lungs clear, eye/nose clear. No fever. Started on Doxacycline and vitamins. Given an antihistamine/antibiotic
MIllie gets breathing treatment for respiratory infection.
injection and within 24 hours all symptoms are gone. Millie starts eating like a horse and is thriving. Growing and very, very active. Everything is rocking along until the seizures start. 8/18: Up all night with Millie having seizures every 45 min to an hour. She would start pacing then shortly there after stop and start salivating terribly with the “chewing gum” action. This would last 10 to 15 seconds followed by a couple minutes of extreme excitement. Afterwards, she would be hungry, eat well then crash until another seizure was about to start. 8/19: 7:30 at the vets. Millie was administered 2.5ml of Valium. Vet is fairly certain we are dealing with distemper. Still no eye/nose discharge, no cough and no fever. Blood work shows definite viral infection but does not confirm distemper. Sample sent to Texas A/M for confirmation. In the meantime she is placed on Phenobarbital for the seizures and a second antibiotic is added, Chpc, 1ml 3 x day. I also start her on 500mg of Vitamin C to help her immune system and 81mg of aspirin every 36 hours. Seizures completely stop. She is extremely slow but continues to eat well. She is kept quiet and in a non-stimulating environment thru the weekend. Having had dogs all my life and spending 15 years showing Goldens, I just refused to accept the fact that my new puppy was going to become another victim of this cruel disease. After spending hours on the computer Sunday (Aug. 21) afternoon, I came across “kindheartsinaction” and immediately sent Ed Bond an email. Within just a few minutes, he responded back with the names of two vets in Texas. 8/22: Contacted vet in Houston to find out more information. After discovering that what Millie needed was the spinal tap injection along with the IV injection of just the straight vaccine, I immediately contacted my vet and he was willing to give it a try. I purchased the vaccine and had it shipped directly to my vet. This is also the first day that Millie started showing signs of the respiratory phase with the matted eyes and nasal discharge.
[Click here for a PDF of the lab report on Millie’s distemper diagnosis.] 8/23: This is where I have to take a moment and say “thank you” to the vet in Houston. Had it not been for his willingness to help my vet do an evaluation of Millie to see if she was even a candidate for the procedure, help in the preparation of the vaccine, calculate the right dosage and actually share his insight as to how he would handle the procedure, my vet said he would not have been able to perform it. Millie was administered the IV injection sometime around noon. Sometime around 3:00, the spinal tap procedure was started and went just as planned. No problems or complications. She was kept overnight for observation purposes. 8/24: Millie experienced a mild twitching of her lip Wednesday morning before coming home. She rested comfortably but was extremely weak. However, she never lost her appetite and continued to drink as well. At this point, the Chpc was increased to 1ml 3 times a day and the phenabarb was decreased to 1/2ml (15mg) twice a day. Gentimycin eye drops were started 3/day. She was still receiving Doxacycline once a day along with the multi vitamin. That evening, the coughing had increased and there was just a huge amount of clear phlegm that she would sometimes cough up and out or cough up and swallow. At this point we are 24 hours post treatment and I’m already beginning to notice the eye/nasal discharge is subsiding. And there have been no seizures. My concern at this time was the phlegm and keeping her lungs cleared. We placed a humidifier next to her crate to help keep the nasal passages moist and open. She coughed all night. 8/25: Millie is having difficulty walking but she is trying really hard. Cough seems to be getting a tick worse along with the amount of phlegm but it remains clear. Eyes and nose have no discharge. She is still eating but refuses to drink which is so important so hubby, who stayed home with Millie to tend to her, starts pushing water. We continue the Vitamin C and baby aspirin regimen. The congestion appears to be getting worse although it remains in the upper respiratory tract and has not moved down into her lungs as of yet. Knowing that if this were a child with this sort of upper respiratory distress, breathing treatments would be being administered so a nebulizer was rented with a peds mask. At the direction of my vet, we administered 1ml of the Chpc antibiotic along with 4 drops of the Gentimycin drops and did breathing treatments twice a day starting the second night, post treatment. After just one treatment, we saw a significant improvement. 8/26: Significant improvement in her walking today. She continues to eat well but still is reluctant to drink so we continue to push the water. She has yet to have a bowel movement so that is now becoming a concern however, that was short lived. She is still moving slow but better. The coughing is starting to slack off but the congestion is still there. She is still eating well but in the afternoon, throws up and it is mostly just phlegm with a little food. She is put back strictly on the Science Diet AD critical care food and that remedies the problem. Several tiny meals a day we found works best during these early days of recovery. 8/27: Breathing treatments continue. By Saturday evening she is feeling much better and actually wants to play a little bit. 8/28: 6 days post treatment. NO SYMPTOMS OF ANY KIND! Congestion is totally gone. Lungs and upper respiratory system sound clear. She continues to get stronger with each passing day. Still a long, long way to go but I am becoming comfortable with the fact that I think this is one little dog this disease won’t claim. She continues to get her antibiotics, vitamins and baby aspirin. Although her demeanor is changing somewhat as she is becoming a bit standoffish but I would suspect a lot of that is contributed to what all she has been thru and the fact that we are constantly administering meds to her via syringe and she is just tired of it. 8/29: Millie continues to get stronger and stronger. Eating and drinking great. She does however, seems to act confused or bewildered at times. We are hoping that this is just a lingering affect from the neuro aspect of the disease and with time, will subside. 8/31: Things are rocking right along. We are now 7 days post-treatment with no symptoms showing what so ever. We increased the Phenobarbital last night to slightly over 1/2ml (15mg) and this seems to have helped her bewilderment tendencies. What a blessing Ed has been thorough out this process. He has been there 24/7 to answer even the most trite question. And Dr. Sears, thank you for never giving up. If it weren’t for you, there is no doubt Millie and the countless others before her would have become yet victims of this horrible disease.
This is little Bartley. I love this picture because it showcases arguably his best feature – those wonderful Papillon ears!
Wed Jul 07, 2010, Ellen Parks
Cuando adopté a Bartley aproximadamente hace dos años, no tenia idea que el espasmo que tenia en ese momento era un síntoma de moquillo. Cuando lo lleve al veterinario para sus vacunas de rutina, solo un par de meses después de que lo adopté, me dijeron esta información, también aprendí, que tenía gusano de corazón. De inmediato comenzamos a prepararlo con el tratamiento para el gusano de corazón.
And here you can see the Dachsund body…veterinarians that although Bartley most likely had distemper, nothing could be done. They informed me that he most likely would die from encephalitis, but that it was possible he might still live to be an old dog.
Ese verano de 2009, la gente de donde lo adopté me contacto, dijeron que los otros perros que rescataron junto con Bartley, estaban enfermando de moquillo. Me dijeron por que síntomas buscar y me describieron el procedimiento que había desarrollado el Dr. Sears. Por supuesto yo ya sabía que el tenía distemper, y debido a lo que otros veterinarios me habían dicho, yo estaba escéptico, aun así estaba muy preocupado, así que tomé el consejo de los dueños anteriores de Bartley y contacté al veterinario que había llevado a cabo el procedimiento en sus otros perros. En ese momento este veterinario sintió que Bartley estaba estable y no estaba progresando, así que recomendó que volviera si comenzaba a mostrar otros signos, como episodios masticatorios o convulsiones. Me fui esperado que nunca volvería a eso.
Tristemente, en junio pasado, Bartley comenzó a tener episodios como de masticado de chicle, por un lapso de dos semanas, tuvo tres episodios, y progresivamente pasó mas tiempo en un estado de desorientación. Su espasmo facial se volvió más y más severo también, cuando lo llevé con el Dr. Zilkha aquí en Austin Texas, pensó que realmente sufría de moquillo, y había realizado el procedimiento en cerca de 30 perros. No perdimos tiempo. Ella revisó el sistema inmune para evaluar las posibilidades que tenia de responder al tratamiento y entonces Bartley recibió el tratamiento tanto intravenoso, como por punción lumbar. La Dra. Z hizo un trabajo maravilloso. Bartley despertó a la mañana siguiente sin siguiera un ligero dolor de cabeza, pronto después del tratamiento la Dra. Me dijo que los CSF habían dado positivo para anticuerpos de moquillo, así que el distemper de Bartley estaba confirmado.
There’s the papillon tail! I’m so thankful I found a vet that could help him, and we can share many more camping trips and other adventures together.
Desde el procedimiento, no ha tenido ningún episodio masticatorio o tenido momentos de desorientación, hasta su espasmo es menos severo. Me siento muy afortunado que el Dr. Sears desarrollo este procedimiento y que me dio a Bartley en adopción leyera a respecto, y tomara el tiempo de convencer a la doctora Z de intentarlo en sus perros. Por los perros que tienen el sistema inmune suficientemente fuerte, creo que este procedimiento funciona, ciertamente lo hizo para Bartley.
Por favor compartan su historia con cualquiera que tenga un perro enfermo de moquillo.
Nanook was adopted from a pet rescue farm in Poway on March 13th, 2010. He was a very timid but playful 3-4 month old puppy. He seemed healthy with the only symptom being a dry warm nose. Nanook had diarrhea since we brought him home. I thought the first few days he would be stressed out and then also adding a new kind of puppy food, I expected it a bit. He was only going 3 or 4 times a day but it was soft in a mound and not formed.
3/17/20010
I went to my local vet clinic and just picked up a couple of cans of hills prescription diet rd and a tube of probiotics for him. It seemed to help a bit, some stools now are formed and some partial mounds. He was drinking a lot of water, eating well and his neck skin bounces back good. I also noticed a bit of eye discharge. The first few days it was clear and I would wipe it away in the morning. Then for one day it looked slightly green but less drainage. I am only wiping it away in the morning so I thought that this small amount is normal.
3/22/10
I took Nanook to the vet for his diarrhea and took in a stool sample. The vet said he had rods in his stool and so we got Primor antibiotic for him.
3/26/2010
His stools improved but then he vomited on the 26th and I returned to the vet and he said that he has protazoan in his stool, so we started metronidazole. I had been giving him water from our reverse osmosis system. His stool now looked normal and I saw no blood, worms, or anything abnormal looking. . He was a bit lethargic, but still playful. Over the first week with us he developed a small paw twitch, first visible only during sleep, which progressed to include his entire left leg. I mentioned the paw to the vet on the 26th. He said along with hiccups it is normal for a puppy. Over that evening the twitch increased to the entire leg so we went to another vet that a friend uses.
3/27/10
2nd Vet : She did a full blood work up and sent the stool for tests. She noted that the leg was not normal. It has increased in frequency. The blood work was close to normal and the stool was positive for girardia and coccidia.
3/28/10
He was started on the metronidazole and Albon, the Priomor was stopped. This vet called a neuro vet that agreed it was probably distemper. We were informed that the tests to confirm are not very reliable and that there is no treatment.
3/30/10
Nanook’s leg twitch seems to be much stronger and he is whimpering when he is trying to get comfortable and sleep. He also has only a pea size green drainage from both eyes now. I have no history of him having any respiratory symptoms. He has vomited 1 time a day for the past two days a couple of hours after breakfast after drinking a medium amount of water. He is eating and drinking well, and playing occasionally. His stool is normal. I took him to a ER Vet center in Tustin. They gave him a pain shot and drew some blood and did a conjuctival smear that they were going to hold onto until I took the dog to the neurologist the next day.
3/31/10
Neurology consult in Tustin. Spinal tap/ CSF test to send to lab done under sedation at Neurologist. He was started on Neurontin 100mg 3X daily. It seemed to help a bit.
4/1/10
Still waiting for the test results. Now twitch is very strong and occasional right rear leg twitch noted. Contacted Ed Bond who referred us to Dr. S. in Westlake. Took Nanook to Westlake. Dr. S. out sick…seen by his partner who also wanted to wait for the CSF results. She gave us Chinese herbal Di tan tang. 1 capsule 2 x day.
4/2/10
Called Neuro Vet about whimpering. Prescription of phenobarb picked up and single 15mg tab given.
Emailed Ed again. Still looking for a Dr. who will do the bladder smear.
Called Dr. N. in Simi Valley. Nanook still eating and drinking. 2 legs twitching, lethargic, glazed eye appearance, drunken walk. He would come in on his day off and see Nanook. After Hx and exam, concluded that it was probably distemper. Dr. N. did the NDV vaccine in the body and csf. Tolerated procedure well, woke up crying and shaking. Given Buprenex for pain several times after the procedure. Trembling but sleeping.
4/3/10
Still recovering at Dr. Ns. Eating, walking and wagging tail. Still twitching and whimpering. Phenobarb 15mg given.
4/4/10
No change in status. Phenobarb 15mg 2 x daily given. Still good appetite.
4/5/10
Nanook picked up from Dr. N. Still twitching strong, and whimpering. Returned home. Restarted oral antibiotics. Continued phenobarb. Rough night…only 1-2 hours of sleep due to whimpering and twitching. Di tan tang and Phenobarb given….no coorelation or relief noted from either med. Cut phenobarb back to half tab 1 dose. Still giving Di tan tang.
4/6/10
Still good appetite, normal stool. Still strong twitching both legs, drunken walk. Glazed eyes and lethargic. Whimpering and shaking when standing. Occasional tail wag but no play. Slept during day 2, 3 hour naps. No phenobarb for 14 hours. Di tan tang given. At night Slept for 6 hours.
4/7/10
Shaking when standing, drunken walk, lethargic, whimpering, unable to sleep/ nap during daytime. Restarted half tab phenobarb, and continued Di tan tang. 8pm: lethargic, very little walking. Still eating and drinking great. Twithching very strong, occasional whimpering. Full tab 15mg Phenobarb given. 9pm dog sleeping twitching a bit less.
4/12/10
No real changes to report. Still on clindamycin 2 X a day, Omega 3, flagyl 2 X day, albon finished. Appetite good, stool normal. Very little play. Phenobarb given during day ¼ tab 2 or 3 times during day hours. And then ½ to full tab given at night. Sleeping good at night. Not as much whimpering day or night. Twitching is strong includes the strongest limb, the front paw and seems to include the rest of the paws at different times…all stemming from the same front paw twitch (in unison). Drunken walk still present. Occasionally when standing he will stand on 3 legs, and the worst paw he holds up as it twitches. He wags his tail when we talk to him or when a new family member comes home. He occasionally walks around by himself in the backyard, but normally just follows me around all day. He seemed to have a good day yesterday…outside most of the day watching us work in the yard. Seemed really tired at night and then I realized that I had not seen him nap much during the day. Today, I am now scheduling naps during the day for him.
Since we have had him, he has had zero respiratory symptoms. He has never had a full epileptic/ grand mal type seizure and doesn’t have the “bubble gum” chewing/ teeth chatter. He will occasionally whimper and whine while he is laying down and we are now wondering if that is a small focal seizure.
Dr. N. is the best vet and we are so happy to have found him. Since he is new to this treatment, I am reaching out to get as much advise as we can. Is there a med protocol that we should follow after the NDV treatment?
Before tonight (4/7), I was not convinced that the phenobarb was helping (it only seemed to make it harder for him to walk, he was still twitching and whimpering just the same). Tonight it has seemed to help him go to sleep (sleeping at my feet for the last hour). The twitching still strong mostly, but occasionally less. I feel that he needs sleep to heal, but wonder if the phenobarb is the best thing for him. 4/12 we seem to have a good phenobarb schedule.. less during the day, so he can walk around… More during the night so he can sleep.
I am now wondering about a muscle relaxer, botox injection, or acupuncture for his twitching.
Spoke with the Neurologist today 4/7. No positive distemper in the csf. Other test like toxoplasmosis still pending. If these come back negative, then it looks to still be distemper.
Spoke with the Neuro office again today (4/12/10). No results back yet. Does it really take over 2 weeks for these results?
Please advise how we can make Nanook comfortable while his body is trying to heal itself.
UPDATE: RECEIVED APRIL 18, 2010
Hi Ed,
Nanook is still with us. He still has a very strong twitch that effects most of his body. I will try to update some more video of him soon. He stands on 3 legs a lot and has a head bob. The left front paw that started the twitch first is the one that he is having a hard time walking on. He seems scared to move because when he walks that paw doesn’t always work and he will occasionally fall. He still follows me around all day. He is happy when anyone comes home, or when seeing someone that he hasn’t for a while. He will give out a bark and lots of tail wags. He likes to cuddle with me and will sleep comfortably on my lap. Sometimes when he sleeps his twitch is very light. He goes in his crate at night and sleeps. He is no longer whimpering at all. Last week he was occasionally waking up with a cold wet nose, but we have not seen that in a few days. He likes to go out in the front of our house and will occasionally explore on his own through all of the bushes. He has been eating well. We had him on crumbs of phenobarb, less and less each day, with a bit more at night. He has been off of it for 3 days now. We have him on a chinese herb Di Tan tang and vitamins. I hope that we will see some improvement soon. It is hard to see a puppy that is missing out on all of the normal puppy stuff. He doesn’t run and play since the day before the treatment. He will occasionally gallop to keep up with me in the backyard and he will take his bone outside and lay down with it. We are still hoping for the best. I have an appointment with Dr Novy the first week of May, when he returns from his ranch. I will keep you posted with any new developments. My husband has been reaching out to anyone on different chats about treatment for chorea/ myoclonus. I hope that we can find something to help.
UPDATE 5/2/2010
Hi Ed,
Here is a summary of Nanook that you can share. We are hoping for the best this week.
Nanook was adopted from a pet rescue farm in Poway on March 13th, 2010. He was originally rescued by 4 Patas in Baja/ Ensenada, Mexico. He was a very timid but playful 3-4 month old puppy. The rescue said that he was one of the healthiest looking pups that they ever rescued.
His original symptom was a light paw twitch noted on 3/14. With all other tests normal we proceeded to the Neuro vet on 3/31 where a spinal tap/csf test was done. Deteriorating rapidly, we took him to a vet in Simi Valley 4/2 to have the NDV treatment. This vet has over 40 years of experience and has seen the massive damage distemper can cause.
Nanook returned home 4/5, the NDV seemed to stop the progression…but only time could repair the damage already caused.
The CSF test took over 3 weeks to get the results back 4/19. Everything was negative. The only test from this that can have a false negative is Distemper. The Simi Valley vet has seen a lot of Distemper and confirmed the diagnosis using only his years of experience on 4/2. If we would have waited for the results, Nanook would have been gone.
He has been on 1/4th of a tab of phenobarb 2 times a day for the past 4 weeks. He has been comfortable, no whimpering. Eating well. Just twitching and lack of coordination.
Last weekend we had quite a scare, ended up carrying him to our deck and laying down with him to say my goodbyes because his chorea movement stopped and his heart slowed and then it came to a stop and then he miraculously awoke, the chorea movement started again and thankfully so did his breathing, but he was gone for a few minutes. His baseline now is marked with heavy breathing and a total lack of coordination, including his tongue, which keeps falling out of his mouth. He’s still happy to see us, wags his tail and still follows us around the best he can.
We did an emergency visit 5/1 and returned to the vet in Simi Valley, Nanook is now on potassium bromide to help treat the chorea and with the hope that it will give the myelin time to repair. This med should see some improvement in the next ten days. The vet has indicated that he has seen dogs recover from this. We are all hoping and praying for the best. This could be our last hope.
Here are the links to the newest videos that were taken 5/2.
There are prior videos of the disease progression on youtube and the kindheartsinaction website.
Thanks for everything.
Kandy Bouquet
Update: 5/11/2010
Tue, May 11, 2010 11:46:27 AM
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for their support with our little puppy Nanook over the last month and half. As you all know we rescued a puppy from San Diego in March and he was everything we could ask for, perfectly behaved, absolutely affection and he spent most of his time shadowing my wife’s every move. My two boys fell madly in love with him and there was always a race from the car to the house to see who could get to him first. The boys slept on the floor next to him almost every night. Nanook brought a lot of life to our home and his greeting when we got home was second to none. Nanook started to get a little tremor in his paw about a week after we got him, which we had checked out by 6 different doctors and that tremor during into a convulsion of sorts, then escalated in a variety of neurological symptoms. We found a wonderful doctor in Simi Valley and took Nanook to him for his expert care in the field of distemper. Nanook survived a total of 4 operations, he lived through a seizure which took his breath away for several minutes and then miraculously started breathing again – just in time for Kandy (the love of his life) to get home and see him. Unfortunately, the past week he went downhill very fast, suffering from total paralysis from his neck down and was only able to wag his tail and wimper in his efforts to greet us. We saw him on Saturday after his 2nd procedure with one more procedure scheduled for Sunday and we decided that he was not going to be able to live the life of a dog and there was no good prognosis for his condition. Kandy and I went up to Simi Valley yesterday afternoon to get him out of the “cage” and we took him to the park to watch ducks and fed him his favorite steak and eggs meal. We had a great afternoon with him but we could tell he knew his time was short and he was not feeling well. We took him back to the vet’s office last night and Dr. Novy put him to sleep in Kandy’s arms. It was terrible that he was dealt such a bad hand in life and never got what he deserved. He had too short of life, but the time he had here was full of love. Our boys went off to school today in okay shape, Kandy on the other hand will be dealing with the loss of her best buddy for some time.
Thankfully we had you all and the support from people going through the same issues which was giving us a great deal of hope and provided tremendous relief for our family.
Siusted está buscandoun veterinario quepuedetratar a su perromoquilloconlostratamientosde NDV, escríbanos a @ed.bond.new.york@gmail.comy nos dicen:
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Ofrecemosesperanza, no una garantía.No todos los perrosse puede salvar, peromás perrosse guardancuando sus dueñosestán dispuestos a probary cuandolos veterinariosestán dispuestos a escuchar.
Ed: esta es la historia de Sammie, detallando su tratamiento para curarlo del moquillo, nosotros lo habíamos adoptado l 21 de abril del
mismo año en el servicio animal de Miami, solo dos días después de que lo trajimos a casa, se enfermó, con lo que nosotros pensamos era tos de las perreras, cuando realmente se puso mas feo, lo llevé con nuestro veterinario, quien lo diagnosticó con distemper. El veterinario nos dijo, que podríamos tratar los síntomas, y que algunos perros llegan a sobrevivir, también nos dijo que no había cura para la enfermedad, y que si los síntomas neurológicos empeoraban, necesitaríamos ponerlo a dormir. No estaba dispuesta a aceptar esto y comencé a investigar en Internet para ver opciones, ahí fue cuando encontré el sitio de Ed, y en Facebook. Para el 5 de mayo, Sammie estaba teniendo hasta ocho convulsiones por día, y realmente me asustaba que no pudiéramos haberle dado el tratamiento a tiempo.
Con la ayuda de Ed y Pippit Carlingron pude encontrar un veterinario en Atlanta quien estaba dispuesto a realizar el procedimiento de la punción lumbar. Éste fue hecho el 18 de mayo del 2009 en su clínica en Atlanta, al día siguiente trajimos de vuelta a casa en Miami a Sammie. El necesitaría tomar medicamentos para las convulsiones, posiblemente por el resto de su vida, pero estamos esperanzados de que su cuerpo pueda reparar el daño causado por el virus. He adjuntado tres fotos mostrando a Sammie antes del procedimiento y una foto tomada seis días después del procedimiento, la tercera foto muestra su cabeza donde fue rapado para la inyección. Puedes verlo en las fotos del después que tan bien esta ahora. Sammie toma fenobarbital para las convulsiones, y tenemos algunas dificultades ajustando las dosis correctas, pero desde que nuestro veterinario hizo el último ajuste el 21 de mayo, el no ha tenido ninguna convulsión.
Ed, por favor siéntete libre de publicar nuestra historia en tu página.
Saludos, Harold y Pamela Allen Kendall, FL
Actualización (recibido el 4 de junio de 2014) por cierto, Sammie es una de las historias de éxito de la cura del moquillo, el mes pasado celebramos cinco años desde que recibió la NVD por punción lumbar, el ahora esta muy saludable- Harold Allen.
