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We have a 9-1/2 year old male Doberman that spent all of last weekend in the intensive care unit of the local 24 hour emergency clinic. (why does everything bad always happen in the middle of the night)
Anyway, he was in CHF with a dropping blood pressure and he was in A-fib. Although it was touch and go all weekend the two vets did pull him out of it. By Sunday evening the CHF was cleared up, his bloodpressure was normal and the A-fib converted to a sinus rythum.
Monday he saw the cardiologist who after reviewing the 4 ekg's, several eco's and blood work that were done over the weekend as well as doing his own workup confirmed that Eddie's heart was enlarged and he does have DCM.
The cardiologist send him home with more meds that he has ever had in his life as well as a printout from Tufts of a list of low sodium foods we should feed. The local Petco does carry ProPlan Performance whic is on the list so that is what I am giving him at this point until we can locate a local source for one of the others on the list that is even lower in sodium.
After todays follow up visit the cardiologist told us to let him be a dog, keep him happy and let him start to play with the others but don't let it get too out of hand.
Appearently he does not live with 5 high strung dobermanns and three of them are under three years of age and have all the energy in the world.
Since I have read several other posts here about other members with Dobermans that have DCM my questions are:
What low sodium food are you feeding?
What low sodium treats are you giving them?
How much activity and excitement do you allow? Including interaction with other dobermans.
And I am sorry for such a long post.
Anyway, he was in CHF with a dropping blood pressure and he was in A-fib. Although it was touch and go all weekend the two vets did pull him out of it. By Sunday evening the CHF was cleared up, his bloodpressure was normal and the A-fib converted to a sinus rythum.
Monday he saw the cardiologist who after reviewing the 4 ekg's, several eco's and blood work that were done over the weekend as well as doing his own workup confirmed that Eddie's heart was enlarged and he does have DCM.
The cardiologist send him home with more meds that he has ever had in his life as well as a printout from Tufts of a list of low sodium foods we should feed. The local Petco does carry ProPlan Performance whic is on the list so that is what I am giving him at this point until we can locate a local source for one of the others on the list that is even lower in sodium.
After todays follow up visit the cardiologist told us to let him be a dog, keep him happy and let him start to play with the others but don't let it get too out of hand.
Appearently he does not live with 5 high strung dobermanns and three of them are under three years of age and have all the energy in the world.
Since I have read several other posts here about other members with Dobermans that have DCM my questions are:
What low sodium food are you feeding?
What low sodium treats are you giving them?
How much activity and excitement do you allow? Including interaction with other dobermans.
And I am sorry for such a long post.