Sudden Chronic Seizures in animals
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Throughout my veterinarian career, pet owners have brought up issues concerning their animals who have all of a sudden developed seizure disorders, as well as whether or not they would have to put their canine companions to sleep or not. Seizure disorders are really relatively typical in animals as well as while not curable in many cases can typically be treated as well as controlled.
The causes of seizures in animals can be numerous from trauma, toxins, infections, metabolic diseases of the liver, as well as primary brain illness as well as tumors. Every pet with a history of chronic seizures ought to have a full workup by a veterinarian, including blood work, urine testing, as well as liver particular function tests such as bile acids tests. depending upon the results of these tests even more testing such as ultrasound and/or particular tests of the central nervous system, including MRI’s as well as CSF taps can be done.
However, inmost cases, particular causes of seizures are not discovered as well as numerous animals are diagnosed with epilepsy, which are seizures with an unknown origin. In these cases many pets’ seizures can be controlled with medication such as Potassium Bromide as well as Gabapentin.