Signalment
- Age: 15 years
- Sex: female spayed
- Breed: Maltese Mix
- Species: dog
Disease Notes
- Certainty: confirmed
- Final Status: no change as of day 68 of treatment
Treatment and Outcome
Treatments
Notes:
Snowball is a 15 year old, female, speyed, Maltese X. Snowball started having seizures a year ago and was started on phenobarbitone for canine idiopathic epilepsy. This was following routine blood work and urinalysis. She also has a bilateral systolic heart murmur, grade 4/5, consistent with AV valve insufficiency. Examination by a veterinary Cardiologist confirmed that the seizures appeared to be neurological and not due to an underlying problem with the heart.
This month Snowball has had 3 seizures. Normally she will have only one, sometimes two. The seizures occur around 6.30-7.30am (horary time LI/ST, lowest energy for KID/PC).
The phenobarbitone dose was recently increased as the trough serum level was found to be sub-therapeutic. She is the regular patient of a Vet colleague at the practice I am working in, and he suggested that maybe I could offer some help from a TCM approach.
I examined Snowball on 13/4/18. Her tongue was pale/lavendar,with no coat, and not moist. Her pulses were weak, with the L pulse almost absent, and R pulse weak, think, and fast. She was a little "flinchy" over ribs, but did not seem painful and this was not consistent. Back shu points were normal, Alarm points were normal. I palpated GB34, GB30 and GB25 (at the angle of the ribs and T-L junction) and these seemed ok.
I think the cause of her seizures is an underlying KID and LIV Yin deficiency.
Diet is largely canned or kibble
Acupuncture points were stimulated
Notes: None submitted
Diet is largely canned or kibble
Acupuncture points were stimulated