Anyone know anything about megaespohagus?
Submitted by shirleysmama on October 27, 2010 - 10:22pmHello!
I posted the other day about my Shirley and the vet suggesting she had inflammatory bowel disease. I am getting a second opinion with a new vet I found on the BDW vet list on Friday. I have been doing tons of research online to prepare myself for what might come on Friday. I just not sure about the IBD. Everything I read talks about vomitting and diarreha which she does not have. She regurgitates anywhere from 1 to 5 times a day. I am nervous as heck. I read about symptoms of megaesophagus and she seems to fit the symptoms pretty well. I was curious if anyone had experience with this, knows what causes this in a 3 year old??
Thanks in advance! I really appreciate any input.
Mallory
I am not an expert, but
my last bully Arthur (RIP) was diagnosed with this at 4 mos of age with a barium swallow. They can see the GI tract on xray and diagnose it that way. Perhaps there are now better ways to diagnose, but not by symptoms alone.
Get this, that vet clinic misdiagnosed him and I did not suspect it until he was 14 months old. He had been on Maxeran all that time. I took his xrays and sent them to the vet college. They reported his GI tract was intact. Turns out he needed a palate resection. I have learned so much since then.
Best of luck to you.
I do not have experience with
I do not have experience with this but my dog was regurgitating quite often until I changed his diet. I feed him a homemade diet of boiled beef or turkey, yams, broccoli and brown rice. The vomiting has stopped completely. I think the kibble was the culprit. Wishing you the best.
Soft palate problem(Went thru this when mine was 3 yrs)
My frenchie was regurgitating, food would just shoots out of his mouth and this usually happens around 1am-6am. I took him to 3 vets did all the ultrasound, xrays since they thought he probably swallowed something. blood works was fine. Long story short, i took him to uc davis and they did a barrium xray and found that his esophagus was really inflamed due to the stomach acid that was coming up with the food when he regurgitate(he did this for 2 weeks) and the sphincter that connects the esophagus to the stomach did not closed completely, they found out about this when they put the camera down his throat to check and suggest I have his palate trimmed and saccules removed. he was then put on medication, prilosec to reduce his stomach acid, cisapride to make his stomach(?) work faster and push down the food and another medication i forgot the name but it's a blue pill that I put in a syringe(no needle) and shake it so it dissolves and give that to him 1 hr before he eats and 2 hrs before or after the prilosec because it reacts to his stomach acid and coats it. He was put on this for over 6 months which I then reduce it gradually and now he is doing great. Because if this doesn't work, the vet said they will do the surgery to tighten his spincher and reroute the esophagus I think so that it bypass something so the stomach acid wont' shoot up when he regurgitate, The downside to this is that he won't be able to vomit so you can't tell if he's sick. Lucky he didn't have to do this surgery and just having his palate trimmed and saccules removed helped alot. Also, he didn't have any breathing problems. So perhaps you should get another opinion regarding his soft palate evaluation as that could be the problem since it gets longer when they age and it seems 3yrs seems to be that age because my bulldog is showing sypmtoms for the past week and he has an apptmt to uc davis on friday to check.
Dee