Hypocalcaemia of unknown origin- any thoughts please

Re: Hypocalcaemia of unknown origin- any thoughts please

Kate Richardson — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:48:17 GMT

I can't 100% rule out pancreatitis but initially no vomiting/inappetance, no cranial abdominal pain, amylase/lipase/PLI normal, no inflammatory leukogram, so seems unlikely, but now dog is slightly inappetant it may be worth rechecking, and haven't scanned his abdo yet. He's not insured although his owners are happy to spend on him, but there are some limits, and so far to this point we concentrated on the most likely causes. Once we started getting to the weird and wonderfuls, we elected to go for control of the signs rather than doing 'unusual diagnostics' (although an abdo scan is not unusual! just there was no great indication to spend another £100 or so at that stage given his appetite was really good etc)

No palpable goitre. Don't know about calcitonin tests but will ask lab. Do you know what could cause hypomagnesaemia? And will have to check out measuring Vit D levels.

I guess we could try vit D therapy to improve absorption from his git.

Cheers

Re: Hypocalcaemia of unknown origin- any thoughts please

Rob Loxley — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:25:17 GMT

Do your lab tests 100% rule out pancreatitis? Calcitonin producing tumor - any palpable goitre; can you assay calcitonin in dogs? Would be worth a check of Mg levels having come this far. Have you looked into assessing vit D levels?

Re: Hypocalcaemia of unknown origin- any thoughts please

Michael Woodhouse — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:15:17 GMT

[quote user="Kate Richardson"]what do other people use and where do you get it from? [/quote]

For bitches with low calcium after whilst lactating we use Canovel Calcium Tablets from Dunlops. Also has D3 in. Not had any for a little while but they are still listed in the online catalogue.