white gums

[DinoHagy]

I was hunting today my dog lost all energy and stoped hunting I looked at her gums an they were solid white what can I do for her she is bad sick.
PLEASE HELP ME

[TC]

Time For a Vet trip!!!!!!!!

There are just TOO MANY UNKNOWNS HERE FOR ANYBODY to take a GUESS
Get the Dog to the Vet!!!!
I mean heck it could be anything from poor Iron to internal bleeding!!!!

Again VET TRIP!!!!

[mybeagles]

For those who cant afford vet trip every time dog doesnt act right......

Raw liver, tripe, beaver, are a few good choices to mix in food. Ensure your feeding quality dog food with adequate protein.

Does your dogs tail bleed alot from the briars etc? If so you may need to band a couple inches off the end.

[mike crabtree]

Prolly too much bleeding from the tail. If not that I would say whipworms, they will pull the blood out of a dog.

[DinoHagy]

Yell she bleeds alot from her tail I have be giving her Redsell for iron.

[Windkist]

Yell she bleeds alot from her tail I have be giving her Redsell for iron.

I agree, This dog needs a vet visit. it could be MANY MANY things that could cause this including auto immune disease, parasites, liver disease etc. If you are going to keep dogs you should be prepared for vet visits financially and this one doesn't sound like its trivial.

Hope she is doing better today ;-)

Leah

[Bev]

Considering the breed and the exposure they get, my money says she has a belly full of whips, and if she does, she's gonna need a shot from the vet - not some over-the-counter remedy. Whips will pull a dog down quickly...like in a day or 2. Please take her to the vet this time. White gums = bleeding out somewhere.

[bill (flint river )]

i had a male do this, bleeding out his tail. did the vet thing, and she told me liver, and lay the hound up for a couple of weeks. i started tapping his tail and all was well.

[Lance]

Had this just happen. Two weeks ago, I ran my 5 yr old female hard three times within one week. Her tail is always bloody but this year all the hair is gone on the tip and it has been bleeding real bad. After the third day running..she was absolutely out of gas. White gums, no energy. Took her home, put her on 30/20 Pro Plan, mixing in beef liver and ground deer for a week. At the end of the week seemed back to normal. Ran her sunday, wasn't there 10 min. and her sides were already covered in blood. Out of gas within two hours of running. Same symptoms. Took her to the vet, no worms, kidneys fine, blood work showed red cell count low. Vet is concerned about autoimmune disease, but I'm confident it's her tail causing the problem. It's been two days, her gums have good color, still doesn't have any energy, leg muscles seem a little weak as far as jumping up on the couch. She is eating, but not like normal. Already decided to band her tail.

Anyone have any suggestions on anything else I can do to get her strength back up

[Joeyman]

nutri-cal........a dab of that before a hunt. It gives a boost of energy

[TheLittleBlackBook]

I was hunting today my dog lost all energy and stoped hunting I looked at her gums an they were solid white what can I do for her she is bad sick.
PLEASE HELP ME

I would bet a million dollars to a penny that your dog has babesia. Babesia is a tick-borne parasite that is well-known in the greyhound and pit bull communities, but is still relatively unknown in other sporting dog circles. Most vets consider this disease to be "rare" in the United States, but the fact is babesia is now in over 70% of the dogs in the southeastern US, but remains subclinical (unnoticeable) unless a dog gets run down.

Babesia directly attacks the red blood cells, gobbling them up like Pac Man. Typically, the body makes more blood cells than the parasite can affect ... but sometimes (especially when bitches come in heat and/or any other kind of stress) the disease begins to gobble-up red blood cells faster than what the body can manufacture. It is this status which begins to create the anemia, which can and will get to the point of death if intervention isn't accomplished. (Other signs of babesia include fever, hence it's common name of "tick fever," and an orange cast to the urine and feces.)

Very often this disease is MISdiagnosed as "autoimmune hemolytic anemia," so if you ever get a vet report that says this about a dog, immediately run a specific test for babesia. In 20 years of breeding dogs, 100% of the diagnoses I have seen as "autoimmune hemolytic anemia" were in fact babesia, misdiagnosed.

You will need special drugs to deal with babesia. The preferred drug is Berenil (Diminazene aceturate), but this is not available in America yet. In the US we have a drug called Imizol (Imidocarb diproprianate) that handles babesia. Other effective drugs are Antirobe (Clindamycin) and Vibramycin (Doxycycline).

What you need to do is go to a vet to get a RBC (red blood count) on your dog. Normal is 35-40. If your dog gets down to a 12 count, the anemia is life-threatening, and you will need to get her a transfusion. Rather than use donor blood, see if your vet has a product called Bio-Pure, which is synthetic blood. The advantage of using synthetic blood is that the babesia cannot gobble it up, which bides you more time to get the required drugs. If your vet does not have Imizol onhand (and most don't) he can have it overnighted to him from the nearest veterinary university. (This is also where he should send the bloodwork, as they do specific DNA tests for babesia that your vet's "pet lab" will not be able to test for.)

Babesia is no joke. A person can and will spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars trying to figure out what it is ... if they don't know what to look for. If they know what they're doing, they can treat it with a $0.09 (nine cent) shot of Berenil. Here is a website to an South African company that will ship you Berenil for $24 (treats 250 dogs):

http://www.vetproductsonline.com
(Look under Dogs and then "antibiotics/antimicrobials" for the product Berenil)
PS: Those prices are in SouthAfrican Rand; the US price is like $20-$30

This is not a hoax and I am not a quack

Contact Dr. Adam Birkenheuer from the North Carolina State University School of Veterinary Medicine, who is our nation's leading researcher on babesia ... and he will tell you it is the fastest-growing canine parasite/disease in the USA. In AL, GA, TN, and the Carolinas it is becoming as common as the basic roundworm. 70% of greyhounds have this problem now, and it is spilling into other breeds.

Anyway, enough of my infomercial (LOL), good luck with your dog, but any ghasly-white anemic dog should be checked for babesia ASAP, especially if there is a concurrent fever and an orange cast to the urine/feces.

Jack


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