15 day old anorexic bulldog puppy with abdominal pain/bloat

RE: 15 day old anorexic bulldog puppy with abdominal pain/bloat

Anthony Dennison — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:35:35 GMT

I think it was pneumonia - we repeated x-rays after I posted this and the lungs looked consolidated. I suspect the puppy was ill before the owners said it was, they just didn't notice.

RE: 15 day old anorexic bulldog puppy with abdominal pain/bloat

Kate Richardson — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 16:52:15 GMT

Acute GI eg intususception?

(Can’t spell it )

RE: 15 day old anorexic bulldog puppy with abdominal pain/bloat

Anthony Dennison — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 14:40:06 GMT

Unfortunately the puppy passed away this morning. Apologies for the quality of the images, I was at home and had them sent to me by the on call vet.

RE: 15 day old anorexic bulldog puppy with abdominal pain/bloat

Dinu Catilina — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:54:56 GMT

Were they tube feeding? Any puppy milk? goats milk? other weird things added? New bottle or nipple? The puppy can also have a very small cleft at the end of the soft palate and gulps air with his meals. Colics due aerophagia? I wouldn't bother too much about his chest as you won't have a normal to compare with at this age.

If he settled on methadone I suspect it was mainly pain from gastric distension? At this age you can easily pass a gastric tube without sedation/ga and aspirate the contents of the stomach.

And good luck!

RE: 15 day old anorexic bulldog puppy with abdominal pain/bloat

Michael Woodhouse — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:44:40 GMT

Not much help but the photos of the rads not great, even the jpeg would be better.

Don't forget the puppy will have a thymus at that age and may explain the soft tissue density cranial to heart. If under GA then maybe pass a small tube and deflate the stomach.

Do you have a blood glucose?

RE: 15 day old anorexic bulldog puppy with abdominal pain/bloat

Anthony Dennison — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 21:47:54 GMT