Babesia and E. canis provoking seisures

Joseph Cyrus I need urgent information. I have a pup 45 days old positive for E Canins and Babesia species with a huge spleen, low platelets and low Hb, injected with imizol and on prednisolone and doxycycline orally. He has started developiing spasms on the face post imizol injection second day despite improvement in platelets fro...

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28 February at 07:15 · Comment · · Flag

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    Darsha Mapatuna if you can give orally phenobobiton with prednisolone and doxcycline.if you cant give orally then can you give dizepam with doxycycline and dexamethazone. ten continue oral treatment

    28 February at 07:34 · · Report
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    Joseph Cyrus but what is causing it? is it the imidocarb or the blood parasite! management is a different issue but diagnosis?
    

    28 February at 07:36 · · Report
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    Darsha Mapatuna you have to stopped spasms by giving phenobabiton. then continue doxycyline to manage parasite . normal imizol not giving to pup
    http://vetdrugslist.net/imizol/339444.html

    28 February at 08:04 · · Report
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    Ashwin Nambiar cerebral babesiosis? signs mentioned are - epileptic fits, ataxia, hind limb weakness.....if by imidocarb u r implying an ADR then predni should have countered it..(?)

    28 February at 10:08 · · Report
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    Darsha Mapatuna yes Ashwin what you said was true. it also cause spasms. These were ‘grand mal’ seizures; they occurred after exercise and lasted several minutes. Between seizures, the dog remained weak. No neurological signs were reported before this episode. Anorexia, appearing a day before presentation, was reported.

    28 February at 11:06 · · Report
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    Joseph Cyrus how does Prednisolone take care of ADR? I dont think its babesia nervous form, as it is a silent killer. dog would not be alve so long. Another thing did u all know the nervous form of e. canis can cause focal seizures/

    28 February at 16:38 · · Report
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    Ashwin Nambiar yeah ur right...i had considered only type B ADR (hypersensitivity) and not type A.

    28 February at 20:12 · · Report
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    Darsha Mapatuna nervous form of E. canis can be seen either during the acuteor the chronic stage. They may include depression, ataxia,vestibular dysfunction, generalized or localized hyperesthesia, intention tremors of the head, paraparesis or tetraparesis, cranial nerve deficits, seizures, and coma.

    01 March at 00:25 · · Report
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    Swarupmay Majumdar for the benefit of other members, please refrain from using abbreviated name which are not very common. I am not sure what is ADR.

    01 March at 09:53 · · Report
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    Ashwin Nambiar Adverse druig reaction.

    01 March at 14:38 · · Report
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    Swarupmay Majumdar omg

    01 March at 15:35 · · Report
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    Ajitesh Kumar oh my god!

    01 March at 19:19 · · Report
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    Gautam Unny have we ruled out canine distemper??

    02 March at 09:11 · · Report
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    Joseph Cyrus yes I have!!!!!!!!!!!!

    02 March at 11:27 · · Report