calliecritturs
Posted : 4/14/2008 10:25:46 PM
milk thistle -- LOTS of it for days.
Sorry I was rushing out before and I thot it said "Advil" since you were talking about your son not feeling well ... not Rimadyl (was rushing). But still -- that's a TON of it to take for such a small dog.
In honesty (and I've given this to Billy and I know it's not harmful) -- give 3-5 times the adult human dose of milk thistle 2-3 times a day for a couple of weeks. Yes three to five -- I didn't mis-type. The higher amounts of it help the kidneys, not just the liver.
I wish you had some *now* to give. That will help detox the liver and help heal it. I've seen milk thistle bring liver values way way down. It can also help with kidney stuff as well but man, I wish you had it *now*. The sooner you can get
The one *good* thing is that the liver will regenerate.
Don't just get a few blood values checked. Carprophen didn't get approved for human use because of what it does to the **kidneys** so that truly is the one to be concerned about.
Dr. D and I went thru this when Billy was on the cyclosporine -- it's so bad on the kidneys. (They used to say it wasn't ... and now they *know* it IS bad on the kidneys.) There is a spider up in the Rocky Mts. that if it bites you then you wind up in renal *failure* within a couple of days.
UC Davis and a couple of other places discovered that putting people on an IV of silimarin (which is the latin name for .... yep, "milk thistle";) will actually help prevent kidney damage from occuring **IF** done fast.
So when he was taking all the cyclospoirine I darned near drowned the dog in milk thistle. (He took FIVE times the adult dose of it for almost 18 months.) But we got out of it with his kidneys in pretty good shape. There is *some* damage. But given how much of it he had to take and how long -- we did darned well.
But get the vets to do a total "super chem" panel if they use Antech -- tell the vets to scrutinize the KIDNEY values and **not** just liver. With that dose that's the biggest concern.
The liver will regenerate -- the kidneys don't. If the liver values are 'high' you will be able to detox Coco and get them thru it.
Frankly -- I know this sounds silly but unless you are 199% sure it was Coco I'd be giving ALL of them milk thistle just in case.