calliecritturs
Posted : 7/2/2012 8:48:23 AM
[Edited to make sense]
Pancreatitis is an infection/inflammation in the pancreas -- he's sick. It's *NOT* just a "malfunction". His levels could have been fine in February -- lots of things can trigger pancreatitis. With some dogs it can be triggered by getting into something really fatty and with others it just shows up as a genetic thing that can be suddenly triggered. All depends on the dog.
Typically they put them on antibiotics.
Some dogs are literally deathly ill and with others you can barely see it is there (it can manifest wtih diarhea/vomiting -- or **bloody** diarhea or **bloody** vomit -- OR with neither). If not treated quickly it can be deadly -- so you were wise to get the dog in to the vet and for the vet to have found it.
It can sometimes be triggered by the dog getting into something -- my first dog, Prissy, almost died from pancreatitis. And if she found even ONE nut (she loved walnuts, pecans, peanuts) it would spin her into pancreatitis.