Health Topics: Collective Wisdom

[WiscTiger]

This thread will have links to commonly posted health problems. If you want a link Added to it just send me PM of the link.

FIRST AID

Digestive Issues

• Giardia
• vomiting
• SIBO links

Ears and Eyes (pannus)

Heart Issues

• Murmurs

Tetanus and Other Jaw Conditions

Cancer, lumps, bumps, warts

Staph Infection

Misc Skin Stuff

• Lip Fold Pyoderma

Dentist and tooth stuff

Skeletal and Nervous System

• Joints and dysplasia
• DM/cauda equina/lumbrosacral spondylosis
• Possible FCE, disks, etc.

Spay Infomation

Supplements

Spleen Information

Anemia Information

Ticks and Tick Diseases

Von Willebrand Disease

Vaccination



This will be a Locked Sticky Topic.

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Digestive

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1256443 (a)

Giardia

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/ubb...true#Post398004 (a)


Vomiting Blood
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post665641 (a)


SIBO Links:

http://www.vin.com/proceedings/Proce...0&Category=414

http://www.upei.ca/cidd/Diseases/GI%...overgrowth.htm

http://www.vin.com/proceedings/Proce...6666&O=Generic

http://www.walthamusa.com/articles/cgismintes.pdf

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Staph Infection


MRSA infections increasing in frequency; owner transmission a factor
http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/0...ssion-a-factor/

Staph Infection? Nina
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/ubb...true#Post405909 (a)

Drug Resistant Staph found in pet
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=7#Post496564 (a)

Heidi has MRSA
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=7#Post496920 (a)

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Ears

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post641694 (a)

Pannus

Discussion on Eye Medication:
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post650095 (a)

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Tetanus symptoms
This thread has some great information from symptoms to treatment. This is not some thing that Vet's see a lot of so it helps if we as owners have some information.

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...page=1&fpart=3 (a)


Other Jaw Conditions

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=48#Post551261

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<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Cancer threads</span>

Cancer sticky: http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post907326


GSD may have bone cancer
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post531592 (a)


osteo and amputation
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=10#Post465450 (a)


Jake is having surgery – neurofibrosarcoma
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post480974 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=9#Post492785 (a)


Hemangiosarcoma
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=13#Post469332 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post788253 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post663481 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1117791 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...1273330&page=1 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1134366 (a)
(dermal hemangiosarcoma)


Mast Cell Tumors
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=17#Post442265 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1192309 (a)


Lymphoma
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...page=1&fpart=1 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post800476 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post825075 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1098370 (a)


General cancer stuff
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=21#Post440189 (a)


post chemo
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=3#Post519008 (a)



<span style='font-family: Arial'><span style='font-size: 14pt'>Warts, Cysts, Lumps and Bumps (non-cancer)</span></span>

http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/projects/de...llic/infun.htm

Nodular dermatofibrosis (noncancerous lumps, which are signs of internal cancer)
http://www.german-shepherd.biz/disea...ofibrosis.aspx

Warts
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1023392 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post994746 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post915055 (a)

Dew Claw Growth
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post907240 (a)

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<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Dentist and tooth stuff</span>

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=5#Post510545 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=5#Post495286 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=8#Post493976 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=12#Post476914 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=14#Post462872 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=24#Post430733 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post750266 (a)

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<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Supplements</span>

Supplement Sticky:
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1053105

Cetyl Myristoleate
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post729111 (a)

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<span style='font-family: Arial'><span style='font-size: 14pt'>Skeletal System and Nervous System</span></span>

HD: Canine Lameness Learning Module (links and videos)
http://accad.osu.edu/~hcaprett/COTA_...LO_090504.html

Hip Dysplasia

http://www.malamutehealth.org/articl..._chd_part1.htm

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1097723 (a)

Treatments
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post693452 (a)

THR
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post768839 (a)

FHO
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post763489 (a)


<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Nervous System</span>

DM
http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...1#Post859978=1 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1255909 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1203752 (a) (testing)


DM/cauda equina/lumbrosacral spondylosis

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post841492 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1031730 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1031658 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post884553 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post886462 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...e=1#Post988947 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1018147 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1129159 (a)

http://www.greyhound-data.com/dir/39...l_Stenosis.pdf (cauda equina)


Possible FCE/herniated disk, etc.

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...=1#Post1006732 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/ubb...w=1#Post1157191 (a)

http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...1242877&page=1 (a)

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<span style='font-size: 14pt'> Spleen Information</span>

WOW warning this is a real picture of a spleen, liver, stomach and intestine http://trc.ucdavis.edu/mjguinan/apc1...0/spleen3.html

This link has the Functions of the Spleen:
http://www.petplace.com/dogs/structu...ogs/page1.aspx