21 posts tagged “nala”
Nala's always had problems with gooey, yeasty ears and ear infections that flare up from time to time, but the past couple of weeks her ears have been particularly gooey. They're starting to clear up after a good flushing at the vet last week and treatment with Zymox.
A lot of things can cause chronic yeast infections in dogs and Nala has several of those working against her (loves water, floppy ears and slightly narrower ear canals than normal). They can also often a symptom of a food allergy or sensitivity, so to cover that possibility Nala's being switched to Nature's Logic Lamb for a while. It's still lamb (she's on California Natural Lamb & Rice now), but switches the carbohydrate component to millet. We'll see how she does on that for a little while. Simba will stay on the CN L&R, because he's still doing fine on it and there's no reason to switch him.
4 years ago today we brought Nala home!
Got a call from Nala's vet today with her biopsy results. Looks like they got all of the mast cell tumour and characterized it with a low likelihood of recurrence. I'll still need to watch out for any other bumps that might form, but she's looking in pretty good shape. Now all we need to do is wait for her to heal up and get the staples removed, unless she manages to do that herself (she's already managed to get rid of two staples).
Heard from Nala's vet today that her blood work results came back fine. No increase in circulating mast cells, which is good. However there was an incidental finding of slightly decreased thyroid hormone levels which would certainly explain why Nala's such a mellow, relaxed dog and why she likes to sleep all the time.
The lump has shrunk considerably since starting her on Benadryl. Tuesday is surgery day where the lump will be removed and hopefully that will be the end of Nala's MCT problems. I'll have to make sure to give her a good going over every now and then to make sure no others pop up though.
Thanks to everyone for their well wishes for Nala.
Got a call from Nala's vet today who told me that the lump on the back of Nala's neck is a mast cell tumour (MCT).
Supposed to start her on Benadryl and she's got an appointment on Tuesday for bloodwork and a chest x-ray to look for any other MCT sites. The following Tuesday she has another appointment for surgery to remove the one on her neck.
Hopefully this one hasn't spread around anywhere else and that removing this one will be the end of it.
Nala really enjoyed one of the new toys I got for her today. It's supposed to be one of those super tough soft squeaky toys. Knowing Nala, it won't take her long to eviscerate and de-squeak.
